And there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth's mightiest heroes found themselves united against a common threat. On that day, the Avengers were born - to fight the foes no single super hero could withstand! Heed the call, then - for now, the Avengers Assemble!
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Posted by Mercy_
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@InnerVenom123: Writers are capable of doing more than one. I'd mark off Remender because he has two other books, but it's a possibility for Slott or Yost.
@The Dark Huntress: Shhhh. Slott and Yost both need to focus all their amazing efforts into their respective Spider characters, dammit. Don't ruin the perfect Spider-man status quo for me. =P
@InnerVenom123: Mark Waid would be an excellent choice. He's no stranger to team books, & he does character very well. It's probably too much to hope that Marvel would give him the job. Brubaker would have been my first choice, until you said Waid. Waid has the best qualifications for the job.
@The Dark Huntress: Forgot about New X-Men, even though I haven't read that so I cannot comment on its quality.
Frankly, I'd take Waid, Hickman and Slott over Yost for the Avengers. I do like his writing most of the time, but the other three are on another level for me.
@Gambit1024: In an ideal world that would be an option, but with the Avengers being among Marvel's flasgship titles there is no way they could handle the delays the same creative team had in Astonishing X-Men. I doubt fans would be pleased, either. AXM sure is a hell of a story to read now, but I can but imagine how frustrating it must had been for readers who were collecting it at the time of publication.
Remember whoever takes over will have to deal with the fallout of the coming crossover between the X-Men and Avengers. They say there will be a definitive loser and repercussions for the losing team. Now I don't see the X-Men losing so who ever take over has to deal with that mess. He may be going out but he's leaving a mess in his wake.
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Posted by Mercy_
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@Morpheus_ said:
@The Dark Huntress: Forgot about New X-Men, even though I haven't read that so I cannot comment on its quality.
There are varying opinions on it. It was a defining book for the X-Men, though. It revitalized the way things were handled and managed a large cast of characters, while fully developing all of them. It was an incredibly good read, great action, great art and just a raw emotional depth that not many other writers are capable of properly balancing out with action.
Frankly, I'd take Waid, Hickman and Slott over Yost for the Avengers. I do like his writing most of the time, but the other three are on another level for me.
See, the Yost/Kyle team is one of my tops. While I do love what the others can do and would actually love to see Waid write the Avengers, I can't help wondering what it would be like under the pen of Yost/Kyle.
But hey, whose to say they can't both take a book (in a perfect world). There is more than one Avengers title.
Remember whoever takes over will have to deal with the fallout of the coming crossover between the X-Men and Avengers. They say there will be a definitive loser and repercussions for the losing team. Now I don't see the X-Men losing so who ever take over has to deal with that mess. He may be going out but he's leaving a mess in his wake.
I don't see the Avengers losing to the X-Men anytime soon. Nothing to do with power levels (a factor in which the X-Men are currently superior), either.
@The Dark Huntress: I've mostly heard good things about it, but I don't have any real emotional investment in any of the kids to feel compelled to pick it up. I may only do it for the sake of enjoying the story in itself.
Bendis will be off Avengers/New Avengers and there is also Avengers Assemble, but I don't think Bendis is leaving that for the time being. I'd favor Aaron to tackle the New Avengers given that particular cast of characters. As for Yost's chances of taking over the Avengers, I read an interiew of Tom Brevoort today in CBR, take his words as you will.
With the news of Brian Bendis of departing the Avengers franchise, after his long and very successful run, it got me wondering. When faced with the prospect of finding a new writer for a successful book like theAvengers, what kind of criteria do you use in your search?
Brevoort: Well, it’s different every time, in that you’re working with a completely different array of variable each time. But to paint the process in broad strokes, you need to assess where the series is at, what’s been strong and working and indispensable about it and what it might be lacking. In other words, and this is pretty obvious, you want to try to maintain the appeal that a book has under its current creative team and then build upon it by accentuating those areas or aspects that haven’t been explored as much. To point to a specific example and provide you some context, when Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch were finishing up their run on Fantastic Four, I needed to line up their successor. In looking at the series as a whole, having come off of JMS and Dwayne McDuffie before them, and Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo before that, I felt like the time was right to try to get a younger voice into the mix—the book had been done by apex talent for a long run, but Fantastic Four is a series that’s got a strong almost gravitic pull towards its past, those initial 100 issues are so seminal. So I wanted to bring in somebody who would have something new to say, and who maybe wouldn’t be as shackled in his thinking to the past. At the same time, I wanted to maintain the overall positive/optimistic flavor that the series has always had when it’s been really clicking, in my opinion. Given those parameters, it didn’t take me long to start speaking with Jonathan Hickman, with whom I was working on Secret Warriors at the time. Jonathan went away, pulled together his ideas, and came back with a strong pitch for the series—and away we went! So it’s very much the same kind of thing on Avengers. Brian is leaving behind a legacy that it’s going to be very difficult for somebody else to equal or surpass, but that’s the challenge of the incumbent. As it happens, I’ve already got the next Avengers writer lined up, though it’ll probably be several months before you all learn who it is—Brian’s still got about a year’s worth of great stories to tell before that switchover happens.
@Gambit1024: I could see that team working in a book of a similar vein to AXM. If Bendis leaves Assemble at some point, they could use that.
@InnerVenom123: Meh. I know what you mean exactly, about how spreading out thin affects the individual works, but in any of their cases that's already happening and bound to more.
I don't think it should be one person. I think they should have some type of rotation starring (Waid,Slott,Gage,Bendis,& Pak)
Wouldn't mind bringing in extra writers for one-off stories focused on specific characters, but to reach it's full potential a single writer should work on ongoing plot threads.
I don't think it should be one person. I think they should have some type of rotation starring (Waid,Slott,Gage,Bendis,& Pak)
I think they should take advantage of the Avengers constant rotating roster by allowing new writers (who I know have their own favorite incarnations of the team) to pick their team, like when a new writer takes over from the current one they're allowed to pick who they want on the team (if that character CAN be on the team at the time) so that we don't always have the same Cap, Iron Man, Thor team's all the time and so that Marvel can allow their lesser characters the opportunity to have some spotlight every once and while.
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