No, no, I swear to god, he used to be good at dialogue. He started out like the friggin' David Mamet of comic books, it's like he got whacked in the head with the same big stick of stupid as Loeb. I swear, they should check the Marvel bullpen for gas leaks.
I do vaguely remember such a time when he was good at it too. I just loaned my roommate "Torso" to read and I was like "I remember this being good at the time, but I don't know if that's because it actually wasn't formulaic or if I just hadn't gotten tired of the formula yet." But he finished it and said that it honestly was good, so my memory did not fault me.
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