Who is better X-Men writer: Bendis or Hickman?

[Ferro]

To me, this question feels like asking "What do you like better, getting punched in the face or kicked in the groin?"

I'd really not rather have either.

well the second has entire amestardan tax bracket dedicated to it !

[franckd]

Hickman's writing make me think. It makes me wonder. It has different levels and it's like a puzzle. He gives us pieces, and we have to think through. Then, when we have the complete picture, it's an amazing picture.

Bendis is my guilty pleasure. It's like when I eat junk food. I know it's not good for me, for my health. Too much salt, too much sugar, too much of everything, and yet, at the end, it's a bit boring eating that. I don't want to eat that everyday... Yeah, Bendis X-Men was watching a soap on TV...

So I said, I chose Hickman with no hesitation.

[Havok83]

I voted Bendis, not bc he was necessarily better but bc he's getting alot of unwarranted hate in here

[spirit2011]

Hickman is definitely the better writer. He is doing such large world building and he knows the characters besides a wiki search.

hickman characters are mostly OOC

I’ll be saying something similar re: Hickman in a year or so.

just wait for the end of run, Bendis was well liked on the started too

[your_name_here]

I voted Bendis, not bc he was necessarily better but bc he's getting alot of unwarranted hate in here

Bendis gets hate everywhere. People forget he delivered a lot of good stuff, too.

[Jackraow21]

just wait for the end of run, Bendis was well liked on the started too

Moving the goal posts here I see based on the poll results. Big shocker. Now it’s, “Well, most people may like Hickman more, but you won’t by the end.” LOL.

[spirit2011]

Moving the goal posts here I see based on the poll results. Big shocker. Now it’s, “Well, most people may like Hickman more, but you won’t by the end.” LOL.

why not? it is unfair compare a complete run, with one with less than 15 issues

[Ferro]

why not? it is unfair compare a complete run, with one with less than 15 issues

battle of the atom was already happened around that timeframe, easly the worst event in x-men's history, the run was already terrible then.

[butterflykyss]

Hickman reinvigorated a franchise that had no life by his out of the box thinking. His approach was a completely new take on Xmen whereas with Bendis it was the opposite. I cant recall any of his stories I read where I was blown away but when I think of that DoX issue where the xmen went on the suicide mission I was filled with emotion. Also how he has tied so much of established canon into his works goes beyond anything Bendis did with his revolutionary cyclops story of bringing the O5 to the future all of which I found to br dreadful. Therefore, I'm not surprised that Hickman is eclipsing Bendis in the poll.

[Ferro]

because i'm using the first 9 issue sof bendis run, the rest is comparing like it was the same thing

hickman's run is already better at 9 issues.
all new x-men in 9 issues nothing of actual value happens besides a training room session, a paper thin mystique plot and everyone reacting over and over again to the all new x-men.
And just the set up for uncanny x-men.

[Steroid]

Hickman reinvigorated a franchise that had no life by his out of the box thinking. His approach was a completely new take on Xmen whereas with Bendis it was the opposite. I cant recall any of his stories I read where I was blown away but when I think of that DoX issue where the xmen went on the suicide mission I was filled with emotion. Also how he has tied so much of established canon into his works goes beyond anything Bendis did with his revolutionary cyclops story of bringing the O5 to the future all of which I found to br dreadful. Therefore, I'm not surprised that Hickman is eclipsing Bendis in the poll.

Preach!! Hit the nail on the head.

[Ferro]

bendis literaly did nothing, the only character that was factually changed and progressed, that actually DID stuff was magik

[spirit2011]

hickman's run is already better at 9 issues.
all new x-men in 9 issues nothing of actual value happens besides a training room session, a paper thin mystique plot and everyone reacting over and over again to the all new x-men.
And just the set up for uncanny x-men.

Nah, Hickman didn't put a full story together on 9 issues, lots of one and done, no character progression

[Havok83]

bendis literaly did nothing, the only character that was factually changed and progressed, that actually DID stuff was magik

Jean Grey got quite a bit of development over the course of his run. She was not the same person she was at the end vs when he first started writing her

[butterflykyss]

Preach!! Hit the nail on the head.

thank you beloved!! (^_^)