Who was the best Avengers writer?

[Thor2014]

Who was the best Avengers writer?

[roni190]

Kurt Busiek hands down my favorite, if not for his Avengers runs I'd have never gotten into comics.

[L.R Johansson]

You have not included Stan Lee or Jack Kirby in the poll...

For this affront, I shall turn the ULTIMATE NULLIFIER upon you!

[John Ossie]

Damn you for making me choose between Busiek and Stern! LOL

I went with Stern in the end.

You have not included Stan Lee or Jack Kirby in the poll...

For this affront, I shall turn the ULTIMATE NULLIFIER upon you!

LMAO.

[Thor2014]

Tight horse race between Stern and Busiek!

[Anthony W]

I had to go with Stern over Busiek. It was a tough choice, Busiek made the Avengers relevant again but Stern was THE Avengers writer. I almost voted for Shooter because I long for a EIC who knows what they are doing...but that has nothing to do with being an Avengers writer

[WestPhillyPunisher]

My vote's for Busiek who, along with George Perez crafted "Ultron Unlimited", one of THE best Avengers story arcs ever. Stern would be a close second, given his overall great body of work.

[Lorendiac]

You have not included Stan Lee or Jack Kirby in the poll...

For this affront, I shall turn the ULTIMATE NULLIFIER upon you!

Even before I saw your post, I was looking at the options and thinking: "It does seem odd to not include the original Avengers writer on the list of candidates." Not that I would have voted for him as my all-time favorite, but I felt he at least deserved to be on there . . .

[Marvell2100]

Kurt Busiek.

[Mike]

Shooter. He wrote my two favorite Avengers Story's.
The Bride of Ultron. Issues #160-#162 and The Nefaria Trilogy. Issues #164-#166.

[LifeIsILL]

Roy Thomas and Englehart for me.

Bendis comes close too although his Avengers were very hit or miss.

[Star_Jammer]

Kurt Busiek hands down my favorite, if not for his Avengers runs I'd have never gotten into comics.

Echoing this, with a slight difference: I was already into X-Men comics. Busiek introduced me to the "other side" of the MU.

[Tycon]

Busiek & Bendis. I can't choose between the two.

[bigstupidjellyfish]

Hickman for me. I like the story, the cast, the art. Hickman's run not have been like Busiek's run, but I think that's why I like it so much. It's different, but still Avengers.

[gurkle]

I'll repeat what I said in the other thread, that while it's Busiek's run that got me truly interested in Marvel, and that run was obviously influenced by Steve Englehart, I have to go with Roy Thomas because he's the one who gave the Avengers their identity. So much of what I think of as Avengers-specific - from the Ultron/Vision/Pym/Wonder Man "family" to Pym's breakdowns to the Vision/Scarlet Witch romance - come from Thomas.

Stan Lee also deserves some of the credit, because when he replaced the original team with Cap's Kooky Quartet he established that The Avengers was not just Marvel's JLA, that it wasn't just going to be for famous or powerful characters. But Thomas, who liked the original team better (and was not allowed to bring back Thor and Iron Man full-time until Stan stepped down as editor), really showed how it could be both an all-star Marvel book and a book about second-stringers, and how it could have its own Avengers-specific tropes while still being about the larger mythology of what we now call the "Marvel Universe."