J M DeMatteis: Classic Or Dud

Didn't he actually change/retcon/whatever the way some of the Dr Strange cosmology worked, to make it more compatible with his beliefs? Or was that a wild rumor?

I have just realised that this very strong mental image is based entirely on Dr Druid.

Oh dear me, Vertigo, oh dear.

What thinks ILC of The JMDM Book: Moonshadow? I enjoyed it at the time, though it annoyed me in a way that I didn't yet have a word for: tweeness.

Did he do Havoc and Wolverine, or did that just have similar art to Blood? Wolverine's hair was all ... swooshy.

Don't forget the swooshy hair. I can't get it out of my head.

Havok and Wolverine: Meltdown was pretty, but nothing substantial. Which seems to be the curse of a lot of John Muth's/Kent Williams' projects.

OTM me.

Although has he done anything at all worth reading in the past... 15 years?

I don't think I've read anything he's done in the past 15 years. I dug him when I was in my teens, though. His Spectacular Spider-Man run was good stuff. Ditto Dr. Fate. As long as he avoids the spirtual wankery (which he can't for long, it would seem), or when he's paired with Giffen, he's usually fairly solid.

Brooklyn Dreams was pretty good. And he did a nifty version of The Parable of the Stonecutter," but I don't know how much credit he deserves for that.

His Spectacular Spider-Man run was good stuff.

I believe this as much as I believe that Johns on Action Comics is good.

It is! Never been collected though. And one of the Bucsemas on art. Solid.

His run on CAPTAIN AMERICA is OK - Mike Zeck makes most ppl look gd, tho (see also their Kraven the Hunter Spidey story) - in the same way that the issues of the Defenders written by DeMatteis and drawn (HORRIBLY) by Don Perlin are utterly dreadful

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Sal Buscema on art. Most of the DeMatteis run on Spectacular involved the slow re-emergence of Harry Osborn's insanity. It's a good, psychologically tense run. And I really like Buscema's storytelling (lots of nine-panel pages with slight changes from panel to panel).

I believe this as much as I believe that Johns on Action Comics is good.

Stick to your guns, it's no good. The Buscema art was nice, though.

I liked some of his books back in the 80s. Moonshadow was definitely a unique comic for its time, but I have not read it since the 80s. The only place I have seen his name on a new book since I started reading comics again is on one of those Wildstorm team books.

I have re-read the first few issues of the 80s Justice League book and they held up as still being fun.

I'm not sure where his 80s run on Captain America started or stopped, but there was a long time that book was pretty good starting with Stern/Byrne, Zeck, Paul Neary and then later Mark Gruenwald writing the book. I'm not sure if DeMatteis was the only writer the whole time between Stern and Gruenwald, but I remember it being a pretty good book.

I have not read his Spectre series (shocking!), the one where Hal Jordan is the Green Ghost and, um, I dunno, the covers look kinda rad, and Norm Breyfogle art, but, um...