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"The Marvel EIC Chair has a certain curse that goes along with it: it tends to drive people insane, and ultimately, out of the business altogether. It is the notorious last stop for many staffers, as once you've sat in The Big Chair, your pariah status is usually locked in." Christopher Priest
And the end IS in sight, so if you don't like his take, you won't have long to wait before someone new takes over.
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Austen only had that England story and whatever was after. Captain Britain was good but he dragged out the Hank/Janet stuff for no reason in a post-WCA (although Johns kinda started it) and wrote some of the characters a bit off.
Aaron tripping with his Thor and Phoenix addiction. What is management doing?
"Cable was right!"
"The Marvel EIC Chair has a certain curse that goes along with it: it tends to drive people insane, and ultimately, out of the business altogether. It is the notorious last stop for many staffers, as once you've sat in The Big Chair, your pariah status is usually locked in." Christopher Priest
Austen's run is the one I most despise in my entire Avengers reading history, even if Bendis was the one that made me stop reading it, probably because, while not worse, it was far longer than Austen's, which led me to not being able to take it anymore. Austen had two story arcs (7 issues, if I'm not mistaken), the New Captain Britain (which never went very far beyond his run), and the New Invaders arc, which led to an also short-lived series (that was not written by him). Not even Oliver Coipel and Scott Kolins were able to save it, so terrible that it was.
After Bendis left, I managed to read some Avengers runs, even if it was hard to get a book that really felt like the Avengers, with all the New, Mighty, Uncanny, Secret, etc..., and even liked some of them (Slott's Mighty, Waid two modern runs, the second more than the first, the No Surrender arc, Ewing's Mighty, etc...) but never got to enjoy myself reading it as much as before Austen came along. Aaron also was one that made me drop the book.
Peace
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Not decompressed??? This Prehistoric Avengers crap has been ongoing for YEARS. Ditto Mephisto. I have forgotten when we actually had the Avengers in this book, with the story focused on them, instead of all these self-indulgent mash ups and variants of his pet characters.
This is supposed to be an Avengers book, not a Black Panther book. If he wants to write Black Panther, he can write BP's solo book.
Namor the Sub-Mariner, Marvel's oldest character, will have been published for 85 years in 2024. So where's my GOOD Namor anniversary ongoing, Marvel?
Austen > Aaron > Bendis
“Generally, one knows me before hating me” -Quicksilver
this is definitely taking the piss.
Bendis is hands down better than the other two.
Break Out, Dark Avengers, Dark Reign, Secret Invasion, bring Sentry into the fold, and mixing and matching the Avengers team to be more diverse; I mean Luke Cage & Jessica Jones alone made the book amazing.
I can keep going there is so much that is still reverberating in the Marvel Universe now.
I've enjoyed how he writes Blade in Avengers too. Definitely a lot of fun and creativity with the character
Yes, it's pure trolling. It had it's problems, and had no reason to continue after Siege, but it was the massive shot in the arm the franchise needed, and took the Avengers to genuinely new places ,which of course it's the worst possible thing you can do for some fans. Now the team is back to irrelevance in the comics again, despite the fact they are more popular than ever outside of it.
I understand how the "newness" of Bendis' run and shaking up the team could feel refreshing but for me the plotting, mis-characterization of certain characters, and taking away so much of what made the old team great (or blowing it up, in some instances) just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I know some people might not like the "classic" style of some older runs but I think some of those stories still hold up objectively better than some of Bendis' Avengers storylines.
I mean, Aaron is arguably trying to take the team to new places but the execution is so insane and random that it just doesn't hit well.
I find it funny how Aaron is really attached to the whole past/present era characters thing.
Like I know writers always have their reoccurring things but this is really specific to make a thing about.
And it doesn't work as well as it did Thor. Like focusing on the centuries past versions of an immortal makes sense but it falters in Avengers because its kinda nonsensical to tightly wound events that happened literally billions of years ago to characters who aren't long-lived.