Human Target by Tom King and Greg Smallwood

[bossofbam]

DC Bendis work is awful but his Marvel stuff is fantastic! Daredevil, Ultimate Spider-man, Avengers, All New X. Incredible IMO.

His Alias, Daredevil and first half of Ultimate Spider-Man were enjoyable, but like I said, thats when he was still new and I hadn't caught on to his style yet. I thought his Avengers and X-Men were quite bad, personally.

[Saithor]

His Avengers is bad, and I don’t think anything exemplifies it more than him assassinating a bunch of the avengers metaphorically or literally so he could just turn it into another street level book.

Watch and marvel as the Avengers struggle to handle ninjas and some clown in a magic hood.

[FFJamie94]

His Avengers was pretty great, but only really in the first half.
I honestly think we should get a New Avengers type book again. The streetwise stuff really worked for me.

[lefthanded]

Bendis was great writing teenagers (Ultimate Spider-man) and street level characters (Daredevil).

But when he started writing Avengers, even though the story ideas were great (Skrull invasion, House of M, etc.), the characters all sounded like teenage street level characters, and the actual plotting questionable. Once Doom sounded like a petulant emo brat, Captain America a high school football quarterback, the limitations of his writing were apparent.

And then when he moved onto the X-men, even though the teenage dialogue fit the characters, the plotting became even more questionable.

So, I agree with everyone saying that his comics were good early in his career, but failed to develop to be more than one-note. Similar to King here.

[Frontier]

His Avengers is bad, and I don’t think anything exemplifies it more than him assassinating a bunch of the avengers metaphorically or literally so he could just turn it into another street level book.

Watch and marvel as the Avengers struggle to handle ninjas and some clown in a magic hood.

Not to mention he wrecked Scarlet Witch so much that the creators felt justified wrecking her in the movies.

[Hol]

His Avengers is bad, and I don’t think anything exemplifies it more than him assassinating a bunch of the avengers metaphorically or literally so he could just turn it into another street level book.

Watch and marvel as the Avengers struggle to handle ninjas and some clown in a magic hood.

Oh i loved it. And i haven't really enjoyed the book much before or after him. But I am a big fan of the majority of his Marvel work so different strokes I guess.

[Hol]

His Avengers was pretty great, but only really in the first half.
I honestly think we should get a New Avengers type book again. The streetwise stuff really worked for me.

I liked the post Siege Heroic Age stuff as much as the first half. It was just different. Which I liked. he always kept the book fresh.

[Hol]

Bendis was great writing teenagers (Ultimate Spider-man) and street level characters (Daredevil).

But when he started writing Avengers, even though the story ideas were great (Skrull invasion, House of M, etc.), the characters all sounded like teenage street level characters, and the actual plotting questionable. Once Doom sounded like a petulant emo brat, Captain America a high school football quarterback, the limitations of his writing were apparent.

And then when he moved onto the X-men, even though the teenage dialogue fit the characters, the plotting became even more questionable.

So, I agree with everyone saying that his comics were good early in his career, but failed to develop to be more than one-note. Similar to King here.

Really? I thought he wrote some of the best Steve Rogers I ever read. The Confession alone is an amazing issue.

[lefthanded]

Really? I thought he wrote some of the best Steve Rogers I ever read. The Confession alone is an amazing issue.

I guess Steve Rogers was a bad example to use, as he is the least snarky. But every other character was the same amount of snarkyness. Spider-woman having a snarky reply to Hawkeye's snarky reply to Luke Cage's snarky comment became overwhelming.

Which, to be fair, is how the MCU movies are so Bendis was ahead of the curve on that one.

[Saithor]

Or the repetitive dialogue that even his friends have parodied in their own books from time to time.

[Frontier]

Or the repetitive dialogue that even his friends have parodied in their own books from time to time.

Even Morrison parodied it .

[phonogram12]

Even Morrison parodied it .

Morrison also trolls fans by writing scenes where Batman's trolling fans with gleeful delight on message boards, so...

[Frontier]

Morrison also trolls fans by writing scenes where Batman's trolling fans with gleeful delight on message boards, so...

Yeah, I don't think he meant any harm by it and was just having fun with Bendis writing DC. It was an on-point joke though .

Talking about something a little more saltier, Williamson wrote a line about how Bendis' use of Copperhead in his run didn't make sense and was completely out-of-character for the version of Copperhead he'd been writing at that point.

[phonogram12]

Yeah, I don't think he meant any harm by it and was just having fun with Bendis writing DC. It was an on-point joke though .

Talking about something a little more saltier, Williamson wrote a line about how Bendis' use of Copperhead in his run didn't make sense and was completely out-of-character for the version of Copperhead he'd been writing at that point.

Oh, come on! You know if it was someone a little more divisive there'd be a **** storm all over these boards. lol

This said, in general, if I had to choose between Morrison and Bendis, that would be a tough call writing-wise. Taking each of my favorite works from both of them, they're both vastly different (Morrison - JLA, All-Star Superman. Bendis - Ultimate Spider-Man, Daredevil). They both can be annoyingly meta, though, and TBH, Morrison's meta stuff gets on my nerves a lot more because he includes a lot of cosmic stuff that I have absolutely no interest in.

[Frontier]

Oh, come on! You know if it was someone a little more divisive there'd be a **** storm all over these boards. lol

This said, in general, if I had to choose between Morrison and Bendis, that would be a tough call writing-wise. Taking each of my favorite works from both of them, they're both vastly different (Morrison - JLA, All-Star Superman. Bendis - Ultimate Spider-Man, Daredevil). They both can be annoyingly meta, though, and TBH, Morrison's meta stuff gets on my nerves a lot more because he includes a lot of cosmic stuff that I have absolutely no interest in.

I feel like Morrison is on a whole league of their own compared to other comic writers so it's really hard to compare the to others.