10 Comic Writers Who Need To Stop

8. Scott Lobdell

DC ComicsDC ComicsLike Daniel, Scott Lobdell hasn't particularly done anything outright insulting in his comics work, but he has done a lot of terrible writing and when faced with criticism has admitted he couldn't "find it in heart to apologize." He has also, admittedly, done some good for the constantly under-fire New 52 DC Comics reboot, introducing characters of different races, genders and sexualities to the Teen Titans book. At the same time, however, he was the jerk behind the totally terrible Red Hood And The Outlaws which, besides just being an incredibly mediocre superhero comic, reintroduced Starfire to the world. Previously Starfire had been one of the strongest, most complex female characters DC had going. She was interesting, fierce, conflicted, and had a neat power set. Under Lobdell's rule, she became a brainless, sex-crazed bimbo of the sort that exist only in the imaginations (and web browsers) of similar total creeps. We'll also note here that we're not calling Scott Lobdell a creep because of something he wrote in a comic, but because of the time he sexually harassed a female comics professional on stage at a convention. And admitted to it. What a guy! Even doing the whole separating-art-from-artist thing, the stuff that Lobdell writes simply isn't any good. It's of a piece with the last big downswing the industry had, the mid-nineties slump where nobody was buying comic books and so the people writing them felt no compunction to make them any good. Everything he's been behind has been thoroughly mediocre and for that, along with the aforementioned creepiness, we cast thee out.
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