@koays said:
Really?
I've only picked up New Avengers infrequently, but i'm inclined to agree that Hickman's got Bendis firmly beat currently. Maybe its just the all star cast blending together particularly well that for me is appealing, but if Bendis' Uncanny run up till now was a 8/10 then Hickman's is 9/10 just because of the comparison.
For me, Uncanny X-Men is much better. Out of the first 27 issues, there were only 3 that I didn't thoroughly enjoy.
Avengers I read the first 13 issues of and didn't enjoy any of them. New Avengers kept me interested for more than 20 issues, but in the end I dropped it for much the same reason: the plot was slow and it didn't do what I read Avengers books for.
For me the whole appeal of the Avengers as a concept is seeing how all of the characters interact; at it's core, Avengers should be like the ultimate team-up book, making each character more interesting and distinct based on how they interact with the others. Hickman's Avengers had a huge cast of a bunch of my favorite characters, so I wanted to like it, but after 13 issues he still hadn't done anything with any of them to really make them distinct or interesting -he had a huge cast of characters I love and still couldn't make me care about any of them. New Avengers had more good character moments, but still not nearly enough to keep me interested in his long-form plot.
Uncanny X-men, while being criticized of being too slow, still had interesting and entertaining character moments and plot developments in virtually every issue. Bendis created a bunch of characters I had no reason to care about and made me like them. While the star characters in his book have received less attention, the interactions between all of the characters still make the story compelling and fun to read.
Hickman couldn't interest me with a huge roster of some of my favorite characters, and Bendis made me actually like Dazzler and Goldballs.
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