Hard disagree. He should stay away from the Big Two entirely and just work on his creator-owned stuff. I suspect Bendis never really wanted to do big giant superhero books, he wanted to do crime books, but those didn't have the numbers so he'd move in on a big franchise and just hack away at it until with was as close to a crime book as possible. Which usually missed the point of the books entirely.
Xavier joins the Avengers? That is an original move, we have to give them that.
Actually, only Spider-Man and Wolverine were "popular". Iron Man and Captain America were core team members but not that popular in the larger scheme of things, the MCU was not a thing yet. And the others, Sentry, Luke Cage, and Spider-Woman... they were complete nobodies even in comic books back then. Their modern relevance within comics started with New Avengers. In fact, Bendis completely redefined Luke Cage to the way we know him nowadays. The whole "hero of the people" thing is of his design, before that he was just a "I'll only help if I'm paid" jerk.
If there's something we know about the "MCU synergy" is that it's not a Bendis thing.
I have to agree with this. Bendis run on Avengers started long before the MCU.
Bendis first run on New Avengers only had Wolverine and Spider-man added to the team as A-listers.
That's not to mention that his Avengers stuff was around or at the top of the sales charts for almost 10 years. Bendis was to Marvel what Geoff Johns was to DC for a while.
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