Posted by Frank Reynolds at spider-wj041.proxy.aol.com on April 01, 2000 at 21:35:42:
In Reply to: I remember Kevin saying once... posted by Frank Reynolds on April 01, 2000 at 21:32:35:
: : Why has Kevin Smith spoken out against Peter David in so many ways?
: I remember on this board years ago (might have been three or four) Kevin
: saying something to the effect that David "being a mediocre writer
doesn't
: justify his attitude" or "ego" or something like that....it was a long
time
: ago...maybe someone can check the archives, if they go back that far...
: Although I must say that in the mid-to-late 80s I met Peter David several
: times at conventions and found him to be the nicest guy...he even sold me
a
: HULK script once...printed on a dot-matrix printer on tractor-feed paper
: that was never torn...does that send a few of you back? :) (But I guess I
: gotta admit that the last time I ever saw him was around 1989 or so, and
I
: guess a lot can happen to a guy in 11 years...not that I'm saying that
: anything DID hapen to him since then, but simply my opinion on Peter is
: based on experiences that are 11 years old...)
: I also must say that I once thought Peter to be a GREAT writer...his work
: on Spider-Man in the 80s was fantastic. The "Ace" stories and "Death of
: Jean DeWolff" were top-notch. I thought his work on HULK for the first
: several years was great, as was almost all of his work on DC's two STAR
: TREK comics.
: For me however, his work stopped being "must-read" work when he had the
: Hulk in Vegas as a bouncer....after that, HULK as a book fell out of
favor
: with me....it just didn't have the resonance that it used to have for me.
: His TREK work still was great, but his work on Supergirl or Aquaman
didn't
: really grab me for whatever reason...his last great work in my opinion
was
: the Hulk graphic novel FUTURE IMPERFECT, which I loved...
: Now I'm not necessarily saying that I thought Peter's work slipped or got
: worse or whatever...I never felt he was giving it more than his best. It
: just that whatever made me respond to his work in my teens and early 20s
: just wasn't there anymore. Maybe I changed as a person, maybe he has.
Who
: knows...
: An