CR Sunday Feature: Which Current Mainstream Comic Book Writers Are Which 1970s Heavyweight Boxers?



Because nobody demanded it and because I (fecklessly) threatened Kurt Busiek with it, here are my closely-researched, by which I mean not at all, comparisons between two Golden Ages of pop culture makers -- 1970s heavyweight boxers and 2000s/2010s mainstream comic book writers:

Muhammad Ali -- Alan Moore
Oscar Bonavena -- Jason Aaron
Joe Bugner -- Ivan Brandon
George Chuvalo -- Jimmy Palmiotti
Randall Cobb -- Matt Fraction
Jimmy Ellis -- Robert Kirkman
George Foreman -- John Wagner
Mac Foster -- James Robinson
Joe Frazier -- Neil Gaiman
Larry Holmes -- Brian Bendis
Scott LeDoux -- Gail Simone
Ron Lyle -- Greg Rucka
Ken Norton -- Mark Millar
Floyd Patterson -- Kurt Busiek
Jerry Quarry -- Andy Diggle
Earnie Shavers -- Ed Brubaker
Leon Spinks -- Jonathan Hickman
Ron Stander -- Kieron Gillen
Teofilo Stevenson -- Grant Morrison
John Tate -- Geoff Johns
Chuck Wepner -- Ron Marz
Jimmy Young -- Tony Bedard

I'm not sure these make a lick of sense, but I'm proud of about a half-dozen of them and will defend them all to the death. Wait, that's not right. "I will internet defend them all to the death." Okay, that's more like it. It's also all meant in good fun, which is why I avoided doing the joke of putting one middleweight in there. So don't bother looking.

I apologize to any and all writers I left out. Despite the 1970s heavyweight boxers splitting between themselves millions of dollars and the writers splitting between themselves 57 cents and first shot at the extra canvas bags table at select funnybook shows, there are strangely far more mainstream comics writers of note than there were 1970s heavyweight boxers. I promise to include you in my next hit sport/comics crossover article "Which People At The 2011 Comic-Con Are Like Which Winning America's Cup Captains?" which is pretty much a must-do if only for the super-obvious Jeff Parker/Nathanael Herreshoff comparison.


 
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