I would pay good money to read Remender on FF.
I would pay good money to read Remender on FF.
When he's good, he's one of the best modern comic book creators.
But his stuff sort of failed once he got to the big leagues. Uncanny Avengers had tons of problems, lots of people dislike the endings of Uncanny X-Force and lots of people hated AXIS. Now, as the one person who loved AXIS and think you all should appreciate it for the wonderful thing it is, I think we can all agree that Remender came with certain baggage. He never quite got over the traumatizing death threats and insults lobbed at him for FrankenCastle, a book many of you may remember as being far better than we thought it could be and you had the whole, um, problem with Havok's speech in Uncanny Avengers, a speech that was so polarizing Bendis wrote his own monologue to argue against it in All New X-Men. Given the timing of each, Bendis would have had to have seen Remender's script long before either book was published, which makes me think there was more going on behind the scenes than we know.
Also, Remender did bring us Agent Venom, which was awesome.
Rants like the fans will give writers are probably why they retreat back to their creator owned work. When they work for Marvel or DC they have to deal with the fans who practically consider themselves part owner of the characters along with the company. Some of their concerns are valid (RE: Bendis and the Scarlet Witch) but it's like they have editorial and the fans desires to balance.
Maybe it's a mistake for writers to get too involved with social media. Arguments started there seldom turn out well.
Again, I think it's fair to point out that Remender has had quite a troubled relationship to social media. It started with FrankenCastle, then there was some negative reactions from just Uncanny X-Force being announced especially when it was apparent that Remender was going to use Fantomex and Deadpool. People were very upset about those two being involved. And then you had the debacle with Havok...
Plus you have the normal stresses of corporate comic books and Marvel's events and it's no wonder Remender wants to step away.