6. Martin Pasko
Writer and editor Martin Pasko worked extensively for DC Comics between 1975 and 1981. In more recent years, he helped shape the oft-acclaimed Batman: The Animated Series and its theatrically-released feature film spin-off, Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm. Its a bit of a surprise, then, that he hates comic book movies. He's got it in for Sin City, in particular. "The two media arent the same, he wrote about comics and movies on
ComicMix.com. Each has a grammar of its own," he believes, and by mixing them "you dilute the unique appeal of both. "The live-action stuff used to make me giggle, Pasko admitted. Now, though? Not so much. He's particularly nonplussed by the fact that "you cant figure out WTF is going on in any of these things unless youve seen the previous five entries in the series." "I wont be too pissed off to fall asleep on it, he said of Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, which was on its way to cinemas at the time. "If Frank and Rodriguez light this one the same way they lighted the first one, I wont be able to see WTF is going on there, either, and wont have to care. Given the success of Mask Of The Phantasm, it's always been a bit of a mystery to me why Pasko didn't end up writing big live action superhero movies. Now we know why.