Brian Michael Bendis. Sometime I feel like he cranks out more comics (and better) per week than all the titles of smaller publishers combined, lol. Seriously though, If I like BMB so much you can guess who my favorite publisher is. I try to branch out, I buy comics form DC, WS, and Image among others, I just find it hard to get into characters with freakishly long and convoluted back-stories (A major barrier between DC and myself and the reason why my favorite universe is the Ultimate U.) The most important criteria for me to consider when buying a comic book is: can I care about the characters and what happens to them in this book? If I don't care about something then I usually don't buy it.