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>To me, Claremont had no heart because his work is incredibly middling
That's a very peculiar argument. That his works have heart is not only proven in Dark Phoenix Saga, DOFP, God Loves Man Kills, but Also Demon Bear Saga, Muir Island Saga, X-Tinction Saga (see the pattern). Maybe you don't know what heart means? Claremont took an extra effort to "feel" the characters. He didn't treat them as devices, he didn't treat them as something that can be thrown under the bus, but he treated them as actual people, which was novel at the time, and he kept that attitude till today. What is novel about Claremont is that he writes about real people, but in comic book. Too bad you never cared about the X-Men, because they had the greatest comic book stories ever. Wolverine by Miller could be described as the weakest work, because it was all style and no substance. It looks GREAT, but it doesn't read like a story, more like an exposition of why a character is badass, and that's a very common problem with Miller. He doesn't write human characters, he writes badasses. Even Nuke is a badass in his own way, hence the parody in Batman (Ugly American - highly recommended).

I agree that Miller is capable of capturing the Gist of the character in the brief moment, and he is also very good with the build up. But Miller writers myths, not humans, not people. He writers archetypes.

Omega the Unknown was cancelled, before Gerber got to his second act, so it's not really worth arguing for, because we reach coulda shoulda woulda, but to Gerber's credit, nobody was doing it the way he did, in the 70s, and it's a hill I am willing to die on.

Another problem of Miller is that he has a very difficult way of narration, he way often goes too deep in realism, while forgetting that sometimes it's okay to guide the reader throught the story. Way to often (including DKR) he expects the reader to connect the dots in what Miller doesn't show, and that's a serious storyteller flaw...

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Why did we turn on Morrison? He wrote some good comics.