>>120946209The thing is he is very outspoken about things, which is a double-edged sword, because at times he can be right and convince people he's right, but other times it gets him sucked into needless ongoing arguments and also get him into situations that hurt his PR.
In the 90s I think part of his visibility and popularity was he was on Hulk and it got acclaim for his writing and Dale Keown's art. Even after Keown left Hulk was still kind of popular while PAD was still writing it. People took attention and also followed his other books, also partly because his writing was way better than most comic writers at the time. It also helped that around the early/mid 90s Wizard still kept hyping him up.
But then around late 90s PAD was starting to be more critical of Wizard (for example he thought it was ludicrous that Wizard's best comics events were majorly after Gwen Stacy's death) and Wizard started giving low reviews for his Supergirl and Young Justice.
I feel like in the 00s he lost a lot of clout he used to have in the 90s. By that time the most popular writers were Bendis, Millar, Ellis, JMS, and others. I also feel like he got himself in situations that could've gone way better. Like for instance the Scans Daily thing. Even though both sides reacted in the wrong ways, and PAD was legally in the right, I think he could've mitigated it. That was the audience that actually liked Young Justice, a younger audience than the people who were running Wizard who gave the book a negative rating.
