Best and Worst Avengers Run

[KC]

Avengers

Best: Kurt Busiek

Worst: Jason Aaron

Iron Man

Best: David Michelinie / Bob Layton

Worst: Teen Tony/Hero Reborn from the 90s

Spider-Man

Best: Rodger Stern/Dan Slott/Stan Lee-Steve Ditko-John Romita

Worst: Denny O'Neil/The Clone Saga

Hulk

Best: PAD/ Al Ewing (Despite my misgivings about PAD as a writer he made so much of what the Hulk is today)

Worst: Donny Cates

[Kaijudo]

1) Avengers
Best: Stern, followed by Busiek. Special notice to Byrne's Avengers West Coast.
Worst: Austen, then Bendis (I know Aaaron's run isn't popular, but I much prefer his take of being a big kid smashing toys together than what these two did to ruin the book).

2) Iron Man
Best: Micheline
Worst: Gillen (the whole Tony's adopted and has a brother thing...why hasn't this been retconned yet? Has it? I'm reading the Cantwell run and nothing's come up about it, far as I remember)

3) Thor
Best: Simonson, then Aaron.
Worst: DeFalco

4) Captain America
Best: Gruenwald, then Waid (with a shoutout to Brubaker and Stern & Byrne)
Worst: Remender

5) Black Widow
Best: Samnee/Waid, then Thompson
Worst: Grayson

6) Hulk
Best: David, then Pak
Worst: Loeb, then Ewing (haven't read Cates's version)

7) Hawkeye
Best: McCann, then Fraction
Worst: Nicieza

X) Spider-Man - I reject Spider-Man being an Avenger at the level of these others, so I'm replacing him with one of my own.

8) She-Hulk
Best: Byrne, then Slott
Worst: Tamaki

9) Black Panther
Best: Priest
Worst: Hudlin

10) Carol Danvers
Best: Reed, then Thompson
Worst: DeConnick

[Triniking1234]

Everyone just treated Arno like Gregory from 1610 and act as if Howard and Maria are still his bio parents.

[Thirteen]

AVENGERS
BEST
1. Roger Stern/AVENGERS - the stuff of legends, I'm hard pressed to find a flaw that wasn't due to outside interference. The epitome of the best of the best "establishment" heroes.

2. Kurt Busiek/AVENGERS (and THUNDERBOLTS as its sibling book symbiosis) - a throwback to the tone of Stern, I fault this run for it's misspent time on Busiek's Triune Understanding umbrella plot and misfire character additions such as Triathlon and Silverclaw.

WORST
Liefeld/HEROES REBORN - a limited series so off the rails that the creative team had to be swapped out midway to try to salvage the "story".

[Hypestyle]

worst: Heroes Reborn first 6+ months. Just didn't like it. Pantsless Hulk was part of that too.

[K7P5V]

worst: Heroes Reborn first 6+ months. Just didn't like it. Pantsless Hulk was part of that too.

I know, right?! The only thing that came close to being enjoyable was Heroes Reborn: Iron Man

[Captain Nash]

Best - Busiek. Normally a run that tries to "remix" the greatest hits and storylines isn't well received because it's too much of a "been there, done that" sort of thing, and that there's nothing really original about the run. Busiek's Avengers run obliterates that idea, and is how you balance characterization, and put in enough new "beats" to the "remix" to make it fantastic.

Worst - Aaron's. After being a longtime reader though the Crossing, Heroes Reborn and Disassembled, Aaron did what no other Avengers writer has been able to do: make me lose interest enough to drop the title. I stopped with issue 50/750.