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?
Crazy ideas without any development or actual depth seems like Aaron's go-to these days. Like, they have their place in comic but it's getting to be a bit too much.
Aaron's seemed like he had had it out for She-Hulk ever since he had Jane make fun of her name and that whole hamfisted WoR tie-in issue trying to explain why she kept that form.
Jane may as well just replace Thor with Jane on the team because it's obvious who he cares about more.
Thinking issue 750 may be a good dropping off point. I stuck with this run, through the good (very little of it), the bad, and the very bad, and I'm just feeling "meh" with the multiversal Master of Evil. Plus it's just more Jason Aaron. Kind of sad to do so after hopping on with Kurt Busiek's run and filling in the amazing (and some not so amazing) back stories from the 60s-90s in the meantime. But I've just felt it's very uninspired ever since this era began. But I couldn't quite bring myself to let it go. But I am feeling that way now. issue #750 is a nice banner stopping point as well.
I enjoyed Avengers 750. It tied up the last storyline while setting up big things down the line. And some of those ideas seemed very appealing to me. Multiversal Masters of Evil, the Council of Red, all the bits and pieces that Aaron has been placing throughout his run paid off here (or at the very least are leading to more development).
As for Aaron's run, I always have some problems reading one of his issues the first time. Are characters supposed to act this way? Big ideas get tossed around so casually. Doesn't he realize how grand and omnipotent these forces are? Doesn't he realize the limits of some characters? All of those things are jarring. However, after reading the issue the second time around, I buy into what he's selling. It hovers around making sense. Afterwards, I get what he's trying to do and I enjoy his work. I'll be honest, I've reread his Moon Knight and Enter the Phoenix stories and actually dug them, after reading them a second time.
I get that bro. Again, I was of two minds. Spider-Man, Wolverine, Dr. Strange, there were certain taboos in Marvel Comics when it came to these characters. They were the loners or in their own pockets of the Marvel Universe. They never joined the Avengers because well, that's just how it was, right? Besides, Spidey and Wolverine were cool, but when you were fighting the Kree, the Masters of Evil, or a Celestial, you needed someone who could bring the firepower, like Vison, Sersi, Firebird, or Quasar. Sure, those characters may have been B or C-listers, but they were powerful B or C- listers.
There was an issue of Thunderbolts that came out at the time that somewhat addressed this. Yes, you had Sentry on your team, but when he was neutralized, well, Speed Demon, Songbird, Radioactive Man, and Atlas could give Cap, Spider-Man, and Luke Cage a run for their money:
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Rereading the Bendis run though, woah, it felt good to see Spider-Man or Wolverine on the team. They brought personality. They also brought the credibility. Marvel's top heroes should have been with Earth's Mightiest Heroes. I agree with others who say that Bendis team fit the pattern of past Avengers teams, even when it didn't look like it.
Missed that too bro. Was there a privilege? Perhaps. But I always saw it as a type of grandeur. These heroes were the best and deserved the best. It always felt cool seeing the Avengers eating a breakfast prepared by Jarvis and then have Cap call a meeting. It paralleled what the X-Men did with the Xavier Institute back in Salem, NY.
Avengers Tower or a hollowed out Celestial just haven't had the same effect on me.
Loved that series. The underdogs were REALLY over their heads in that series. THey were surrounded with such urgency and like always somehow won in the end.
"I am a man of peace."
"A man of peace...who fights like ten tigers."
This is exactly what I thought at the time, like why would I want to read a team book with the "Earth's Mightiest Heroes" without the big guns.
To me (at the time, when I was teen) it was like reading a JLA book without Superman & Batman - what was the point.
Now of course big guns is subjective to different fans, but to me it was ol' web-head and the Canucklehead
The point is to read about other heroes instead of the two that are already popular and overused. That's why it's a Marvel universe, not just 2 dudes
Lol, no. Waid's first "run" (vol. 1 #400-402) happened when Marvel was already canceling all of its flagship books to make way for the dreadful "Heroes Reborn"; Waid was brought it to wrap up a series that was already ending.
Moving to modern times. Marvel doesn't technically cancel anything anymore when it comes to the big titles; they relaunch whenever a creative team has told their story, or editorial wants to take the book in a new direction.
I’d just like to point that four of the characters Bendis wrecked because they weren’t popular enough are now among the most popular characters Marcel has that the public knows about. And as DC demonstrates, just because a character is popular doesn’t mean you need to shove him into as many books as you can and get something good out every time.
And lastly the Canuck is overrated.