“I’m starting to see what people don’t like about Jeph Loeb.
When I read his Batman, it works, but that’s probably because I haven’t read a whole lot of Batman.
Spider-Man? Well, to say I’ve read a metric fuckshitload of Spider-Man would be the most offensive way I could put it without getting into racial territory.
And when you’ve read a lot, Loeb kind of rehashes a lot of stuff. Like he’s boiling down Spider-Man’s encounters with the Green Goblin into about two pages, but it doesn’t offer a whole lot of newness.
Also, I think he DID capture the way these characters talked in their early years. But I don’t know if that’s a good thing. It was good and necessary at the time, but now it feels very dated, and not so much in a cute way. Imagine if Mad Men characters spoke like characters from Gunsmoke.
So maybe Jeph Loeb is great when it comes to characters you don’t know all that well. Or intimately. Almost too intimately.”