Tales of the Parodyverse - What I find ironic

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Hatman

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killer shrike

Subj: What I find ironic
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 at 01:56:03 pm EST (Viewed 570 times)

Reply Subj: Bendis has now probably written more Avengers stories than any other creator in the title's history. Let that sink in.
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 at 06:32:17 pm EST (Viewed 4 times)

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Long runs can be positive, but I don't really get that Bendis was going anywhere with his. Was there a lot of character progression that I wasn't hearing about? It seemed mostly to be a book that bided the time between events.

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I agree, although you can argue he did progress the characters of Luke Cage, Spider Woman, and Jessica Jones by putting them front and center in his books, which were the major titles of the Marvel Universe under his guidance. If you had told me eight years ago the Avengers would become more important to the company than the X-Men, I would have thought you were crazy, but its Bendis who is mostly responsible for that (though Millar helped with his Ultimates run).

Bendis has, for quite awhile now, been writing about Avengers teams that really don't feel like "The Avengers" to me. It's felt more like the Marvel Knights than the Avengers, at least when I stopped reading. And while I don't like the stories and dropped his Avengers quite awhile ago, it is hard to argue with the commercial success of the book.

Which brings me to the ironic part; Bendis brought up the Avengers popularity by throwing Spider-Man and Wolverine into the mix, by focusing on characters like Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, etc, and because of that we now have a cartoon featuring the Avengers I know and love, and are getting a movie featuring the same (albeit with an Ultimate influence).

Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes really feels like the Avengers, but we wouldn't have it if not for the Marvel Knights version in the comics.

~Hat~

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And there came a day.... · killer shrike · Tue Dec 06, 2011 at 07:09:29 pm EST
- And lo, Hatman did rejoice (no text) · Hatman · Wed Dec 07, 2011 at 04:59:12 pm EST
  - How are you going to feel when his replacement turns out to be Jeph Loeb? (no text) · killer shrike · Wed Dec 07, 2011 at 06:27:36 pm EST
    - And lo, Hatman's money will remain in the bank (no text) · Hatman · Wed Dec 07, 2011 at 07:13:33 pm EST
- Well, took long enough, didn't it? · Visionary · Wed Dec 07, 2011 at 11:10:36 am EST
  - Bendis has now probably written more Avengers stories than any other creator in the title's history. Let that sink in. · killer shrike · Wed Dec 07, 2011 at 06:32:17 pm EST
    - What I find ironic · Hatman · Thu Dec 08, 2011 at 01:56:03 pm EST
      - I still imagine that the focus on the Avengers by Marvel as a whole... · Visionary · Thu Dec 08, 2011 at 05:01:46 pm EST
    - Well, true... · Visionary · Thu Dec 08, 2011 at 01:27:08 pm EST