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Chuck Dixon is one of those writers who used to be really, really good. I evidence his run on DETECTIVE COMICS, his BIRDS OF PREY RUN, *ALL* his ROBIN stories, and his NIGHTWING run (he launched Dick's solo title). When he was in his prime and working in the Bat-Universe, his stuff was primo. He even did a Prestige Format Superman story about Clark's years going around the globe doing cool shit before he became Supes that was really quite good.
But Dixon's last Nightwing, Birds of Prey and Robin issues were a little lackluster, and I could feel his mojo departing. He was just kind of losing it; his stories didn't crack and pop the fun way they used to. When he went off to CrossGen, I pretty much wrote him off.
And this American Power shit seems really, really bad. Dixon is a conservative, but I hung about on his message board for a while years back, and he always struck me as a decent, reasonably fair-minded fellow. But then he made cracks about the Rawhide Kid miniseries (the gay cowboy) that were kind of off (he said Marvel must have conned the classic artist John Severin into drawing the book, not telling Severin it was about a gay cowboy - this accusation was later proved false, Severin knew what it was about) and he's said some disparaging things about Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka, two writers who I think are very talented. So maybe he's going the John Byrne route and his quality goes down and his craziness goes up over time. |
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