And the December 2003 award for Best Creative Comic-Book Excoriation goes to…
Paul O’Brien, for his righteous take-down of the latest Chuck Austen turkey over in the pages of Uncanny X-Men. Ouch. Best part: pointing out a storytelling flaw that makes Jeph Loeb look like Bill Shakespeare.
Here’s a rule of thumb for Chuck Austen (call it Collins’s Law): If he can’t show boobs and disembowelments, don’t read it. Seriously, U.S. War Machine was terrific, The Eternal has been a lot of fun, and I even loved his art on the Brian Bendis-scripted Elektra miniseries (the sole good story told centering around that character by anyone who isn’t Frank Miller). But aside from that… yikes.