A lightbulb just went off in my head...

Pulp Pioneers Essential Collection: Jack Kirby vs. Stan Lee.

Modern Masters Essential Collection: Grant Morrison vs. Alan Moore.

Probably too fanboy-specific for actual production, but a thrilling idea nonetheless.

Grant Morrison would win that 99 times out of 100. The 1 going to Moore would of course be Watchmen.

If we're pitting authors against each other, why not Warren Ellis vs Mark Millar? Maybe Chuck Dixon vs Jeph Loeb?

Whoa. As much as I love the who would win in a fight game, this is about their characters facing off in two 60-card pre-constructed Vs. System decks.

Now...

Who would win in a fight: Jim Lee or Todd McFarlane?

QFT.

Anyways, the "Essential Collection by Author" idea is something that we covered in begone77's expandingVS thread. Short version of my standpoint: it's conceptually doable ... but overly complex in application (due to the 2-deck system and lack of any real naturally shared-team affiliation) and not very thematic.


Todd McFarlane, because he would cheat.

Jim Lee. He knows Kung Fu. Right? ;)

And Alan Moore's work beats Grant Morrison's hands down. Watchmen, Promethea and Swamp Thing? It's hard to beat that. Nobody who wrote the New X-Men run and created BEAK and (annoying second) Angel or "Kick" gets to beat Alan Moore. Even if he did create the Cuckoos too and the first 2/3'd of New was awesome.

-Mike

Wildstorm vs Spawn crew? Not even a contest. Wildstorm wins, because the Authority is ridiculous.

Now how about Garth Ennis vs Alan Moore? i think the creations of these two writers would be an interesting pairing.

OMG OMG OMG.

I ... I can't talk to you anymore. =p

To clarify two of the reasons why Grant Morrison is infinitley cooler than Moore.

1) He had the guts to write something called "The New Adventures of Young Hitler"

2) He had the guts to meet one of the characters he was charged with, Animal Man, FACE TO FACE IN THE COMIC BOOK and attempt to explain to him why he killed of his family.

While these two things are true, doesn't Alan Moore get a win by default due to the "i'm an unwashed hermit" look?

As for The Animal Man bit, am I the only one that was a little pissed when the Paul Jenkins pulls The Sentry from the ledge bit happened in the New Avengers? Totally ripped off Morrison

Alan Moore and Grant Morrison wouldn't fight...they're both chaos magicians, right? They'd probably fuse to become Alan Morrison, The Magician of Ultimate Chaos or something.

And this would mean that Stu is their love child? wow, that would explain so much...

Yes, he does.

And of course there is Promethea #10 which is an unflinching extended Tantric sex scene cover to cover that was so good it won the Eisner as the best book that year.

I'm sorry, but that's just gimmicky.

Read Swamp Thing, Promethea, Lost Girls, V For Vendetta, Watchmen or League of Extraordinary Gentleman for some actual risk taking comic book writing that will stand the test of time. Morrison is good, I'm sure plenty of his work will be classic in 20 years time, but Moore is better. His understanding of the medium speaks for itself.

"The continuity-experts nightmare of a thousand different super-powered characters coexisting in the same continuum can, with the application of a sensitive and sympathetic eye, become a rich and fertile mythic background with fascinating archetypal characters hanging around, waiting to be picked like grapes on the vine. Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice." - Alan Moore

-Mike

I think Access picked some unfortunate examples of Morrison's stuff, in fact I chose him because I think he is second best. Your reasons for Alan Moore's spot at the top are better than I could ever say so I will leave it at that.