Originally Posted by
Nomads1
Roger Stern's IS my favorite Avengers run of all time. He introduced some pretty intresting members, like Captain "Monica Rambeau" Marvel, an incredibly powerful original character that happened to be an independent black woman (talk about being ahead of its time), and the Sub-Mariner, finally giving us what was suggested all the way back in Avengers #16. A lot of people hated Starfox and Dr. Druid. Personally, I liked Eros (though I think he had a whole lot more of potential that was ever explored. The guy was THANOS' BROTHER.), and didn't mind Druid. He brought back great Avengers like Hercules and the Black Knight. He made "the Wasp" one of the best leaders in Avengers history, really building up a character that had, up to then, been a mere token female Avenger, and not a particularly powerful and impressive one. He gave us the West Coast Avengers, and the introdutory mini-series he did with Bob Hall on art really made me wish that had been the ongoing's creative team (during a great deal of it's run, WCA was, in fact, my favorite Avengers book, however, I was never much of a fan of Steve Englehart - like his concepts, but not the way he "overwrites" drama -, and, IMHO, Al Milgrom's best years as a penciler were behind him at that point). He reintroduced The Masters of Evil (a couple of line-ups), the Lava Men, Kang and Immortus as a major Avengers' bad guys. Introduced Nebula, Maelstorm, Terminus, and others to the Avengers Rogues Gallery. And, while Under Seige is deservedly the most famous Avengers arc of that run, and considered by many the best Avengers arc ever, Assault on Olympus is still my favorite Avengers saga of all-time. The Avengers taking on the Greek gods. Talk about awsome!
Other great runs, of course, are Englehart's (as I said, I was naver particularly a fan of his writing style, but the amount of high concepts introduced in that run are amazing), Shooter's (partucularly his first run, aided by Conway and Micheline), Harras' (up till the end of the Gatherers Saga and Epting leaving), Busiek's, Johns' (short, but I liked it), and, my second favorite run of all, Roy Thomas'! Thomas run may bug a lot of newer readers, particularly those more atunned to identity politics, due to it's dated politics and all the macho posturing. However, the staggering amount of concepts he introduced during his long run are still being milked to this day.
Peace