Just becoming aware of the comics writing career of Alan Brennert who many people say wrote some of the best Earth-2 stories. He is a sci-fi writer and Hollywood screenwriter who did some work for DC and Marvel in the 70s and 80s, after a career as a letter-hack/fanzine contributor I believe. He also wrote for the Wonder Woman TV show.
I wonder, is anyone here familiar with his Earth-2 stories? He wrote a Batman story, Black Canary secret origin, JSA in the 50s, etc. Any opinions?
http://www.panix.com/~bala/brennert.htmAlan's one of the best ever -- there are literally no comics written by him that aren't worth reading, and almost all of them are great. [There's a Seventies WONDER WOMAN two-parter by Marty Pasko that he contributed some ideas to, and it's nothing much, but anything he's solo writer on ranges from solid, admirable craft to "Oh, man that's great!"
He also wrote a lot of very good TV, including some of the best of L.A. LAW. And his novels are all winners too -- KINDRED SPIRITS and TIME AND CHANCE are Twilight-Zone-y fantasies (one is love story between ghosts, the other is about a guy who's always widhed he made a different choice in life, and he gets to switch places with the "him" that made the other choice), and MOLOKA'I, his latest, is a shatteringly-good novel about live, love, hope and humanity over sixty-plus years of a Hawaiian leper colony. No, honest.
Plus, he's a real nice guy. And not only is he one of the world's top Earth-2 fans and one of the world's top Earth-2 writers, he shops at a terrific comics store called Earth-2. He had nothing to do with naming it, though.
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