DJ's PullList

Here we go again, this time with one of my favorite ex-Marvel guys: Ed Brubaker. Like Brian K. Vaughan before him, Brubaker mostly debuted at DC's Vertigo imprint, revamping Captain America co-creator Joe Simon's Prez (a teenage girl elected President) with Prez: Smells Like Teen President and later debuting his own limited series Scene of the Crime with art by Brubaker himself, along with Michael Lark and Sean Phillips (two artists we'll get to very soon), about a detective in San Fran. Soon after, he signed exclusive with DC, working on a variety of Batman titles and returning to Vertigo to work on a Neil Gaiman Sandman spinoff The Dead Boy Detectives . Not long after, Brubaker paired with one of my former Top 5 Artists - Darwyn Cooke - on a very popular Catwoman solo mini, which later earned a GLAAD Award in 2004. Darwyn used to work on both the Batman and Superman animated serieses, and his art is the definition of a "throwback" style to the Gol...

Alright, so we're going to start with arguably the best writer in comics, master of the last page reveal: Brian K. Vaughan.  Vaughan as he appeared in his creator -owned series Ex Machina , His first work was in Tales of the Age of Apocalypse #2, and went on to bounce around on most of Marvel's highest profile characters, including being one of the big name writers who was unable to get Ultimate X-Men to work (such as Mark Millar [we'll get to him] and Robert Kirkman). His biggest Marvel work was creating the Runaways (now filming for Hulu), wherein the children of a group of super-villains known as The Pride rebel against their parents' evil plot, banding together and... running away. He wrote 24 issues of the title before hand-picking Joss Whedon to write the following arc. He had also written a seminal arc for DC/Vertigo's Swamp Thing . From there he launched several creator-owned books at DC's Vertigo imprint (home of Hellblazer (John Constanti...