He's one of those writers, the ones whose mere name evokes dread from the readers that actually pay attention to the names involved so know how horrible a comic is going to be before even seeing a page.
Other such names that also includes artists are,
Bendis. Enough said. I may import my old Civil War 2 rant from Reddit now that I no longer visit so I can preserve the effort it took to sort. Might need to rehost the images though at this point.
Waid. Had good works before, woke pandering now.
Cates. His 2021 Hulk run is... something. The fact it follows immediately after Ewing's 2018 Immortal Hulk is somewhat of a double whammy highlighting just how terrible Cates' story is. Immortal Hulk was disturbing yet praised throughout. Anyone following on from that successful a story would have had their work cut out for them but Cates just didn't even try to bother.
Phil Noto, artist. Had a thing for drawing every face the same which gets unsettling very quickly despite it working for the stories he's involved in that include withe Emma Frost and the Cuckoos since they are all cloned from Emma, or the clusterfucks of any story invoking both Jean Grey and Madelyne Pryor. Then again the Cuckoos seem to have been designed like Village of the Damned children in the first place so the unsettling feeling could be a feature and not a bug.
Greg Land, "artist". Artist might be pushing things. There are jokes Land scans real faces for his "work" and that it probably includes porn given many of the faces involved. Issue is it really might not be a joke because it's that probable.
Tina Howard. Is currently on her third attempt at telling her Betsy Braddock/Captain Britain comic after both Excalibur and Knights of X were cancelled in very short order. Could be described as falling upwards but seeing as how she's still trying to tell the same story it's more falling sideways.
Leah Williams. Bit of an oddity as she's done some good work, mostly Elseworld/What If? type works, however which could mean she's no good at working within established lore limits. Her two Doctor Strange stories were good, as was her recent X-Factor. However as mentioned the Doctor Strange stories were non canon and X-Factor was cancelled in the end so the second Trial of Magneto story could happen since a murder mystery was exactly what the new X-Factor team would deal with.
Pity Trial of Magneto turned out to not only be a complete red herring but also a total waste of time for all involved meaning X-Factor was stopped for nothing.
There are many others out there but I mostly only read X-Men comics atm, just not the ones written by Leah Williams 🙄, and the aforementioned names are have had ties to the series as a whole at some time or another.
Greg Land doing the art for the final issue of the original Uncanny X-Men 1963 run is still a crime against humanity.
Edit: Add Zeb Wells to be list as his current and ongoing Amazing Spider-Man run might just go down in comic history as one of the worst ever written.
/checks writer
Yeah, that'll do it.
He's one of those writers, the ones whose mere name evokes dread from the readers that actually pay attention to the names involved so know how horrible a comic is going to be before even seeing a page.
Other such names that also includes artists are,
Bendis. Enough said. I may import my old Civil War 2 rant from Reddit now that I no longer visit so I can preserve the effort it took to sort. Might need to rehost the images though at this point.
Waid. Had good works before, woke pandering now.
Cates. His 2021 Hulk run is... something. The fact it follows immediately after Ewing's 2018 Immortal Hulk is somewhat of a double whammy highlighting just how terrible Cates' story is. Immortal Hulk was disturbing yet praised throughout. Anyone following on from that successful a story would have had their work cut out for them but Cates just didn't even try to bother.
Phil Noto, artist. Had a thing for drawing every face the same which gets unsettling very quickly despite it working for the stories he's involved in that include withe Emma Frost and the Cuckoos since they are all cloned from Emma, or the clusterfucks of any story invoking both Jean Grey and Madelyne Pryor. Then again the Cuckoos seem to have been designed like Village of the Damned children in the first place so the unsettling feeling could be a feature and not a bug.
Greg Land, "artist". Artist might be pushing things. There are jokes Land scans real faces for his "work" and that it probably includes porn given many of the faces involved. Issue is it really might not be a joke because it's that probable.
Tina Howard. Is currently on her third attempt at telling her Betsy Braddock/Captain Britain comic after both Excalibur and Knights of X were cancelled in very short order. Could be described as falling upwards but seeing as how she's still trying to tell the same story it's more falling sideways.
Leah Williams. Bit of an oddity as she's done some good work, mostly Elseworld/What If? type works, however which could mean she's no good at working within established lore limits. Her two Doctor Strange stories were good, as was her recent X-Factor. However as mentioned the Doctor Strange stories were non canon and X-Factor was cancelled in the end so the second Trial of Magneto story could happen since a murder mystery was exactly what the new X-Factor team would deal with. Pity Trial of Magneto turned out to not only be a complete red herring but also a total waste of time for all involved meaning X-Factor was stopped for nothing.
There are many others out there but I mostly only read X-Men comics atm, just not the ones written by Leah Williams 🙄, and the aforementioned names are have had ties to the series as a whole at some time or another. Greg Land doing the art for the final issue of the original Uncanny X-Men 1963 run is still a crime against humanity.
Edit: Add Zeb Wells to be list as his current and ongoing Amazing Spider-Man run might just go down in comic history as one of the worst ever written.