Marz is almost a non-starter for me. I haven't really enjoyed much he has written except ironically his column about writing comics that ran at CBR. I find his writing derivative and formulaic most times, rarely rising above at his best moments, so this is a hard pass for me despite liking the concept. If I wouldn't buy Burroughs comics because Marz was writing them, I am not going to buy a Turok book by him.

-M

I agree. While I did not like what was done to Hal Jordan I felt that was more an editorial edict and Marz made Kyle likeable. I also haven't read any recent work by him...

His Surfer run was terrible, starting with derivative ideas that were then poorly executed. He dragged out stuff from Starlin's Infinity series and milked it for everything he could for most of the run and when that was done, the series meandered with no direction or coherent voice because it seemed Marz was bankrupt for ideas of his own. The only redeeming factor of the run was that Lim's art kept it visually interesting. This was my first exposure to his writing, and I wanted to like him since he was a protege of Jim Starlin and hand picked by Starlin to follow him on Surfer, but ugh. His Green Lantern run was a series of ham-fisted shocking revelations relying on cheap theatrics and marketing ploys to sell comics without telling any stories that had any heart of genuineness to them to make you care about any of the characters to want to keep reading the stories, and his supporting cast was there for nothing except to exploit for cheap angst for Kyle because of one shocking fate after another (with the fridging being just one example of that type of plotting), it all became tiresome and predictable with everyone in the cast there as cannon fodder to give Kyle more to whine and be angsty overgrown adolescent about with zero character growth for having gone through all of that until other writers got their hands on him. His collaboration with Peter David on the Marvel vs. DC x-over mini was a hot mess and you could move the tails of the dialogue balloons form one character to another and it wouldn't make a difference because the dialogue was all bland generic garbage with an occasional cliche catchphrase like I'm the best there is at what I do being the only thing there to tie the dialogue to a specific character. After that, I pretty much gave up on reading anything he did, and the few times he worked on stuff I did see, it hadn't gotten much better.

But if you like his stuff, good on you, it's just not for me.

-M