Morden Man

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@Sep That's strange. I had a Marvel Unlimited subscription earlier in the year and I'm in England so you definitely can get Marvel Unlimited in the United Kingdom.

@TimeMasterX If you have the chance, go back and read Kurt Busiek's run on the Avengers. The Avengers then were still the Avengers and had a distinct set of ideals and values. There was a reason Spider-Man or Wolverine weren't on the team. Bendis literally stripped everything distinctive away from the Avengers. They were the premier Marvel team during his run only because they had the most popular heroes on the team. And why was that? For sales. Everyone spoke in the same voice, he completely disregarded characterisation of both heroes and villains, and he ran roughshod over the work other people did in other portions of the Marvel universe.

It boils down to personal preference in the end but if you go back and read something like Avengers Forever and then read BMB's Avengers I don't think there's any comparison at all.

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@Sep You should get a subscription to Marvel Unlimited. It's about six months behind but for a small amount you're able to read as many comics as you want - even some you'd have trouble finding online.

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@Eddie Brock Bendis is okay when he doesn't have to worry about continuity or working within a shared universe so I understand people that enjoy his Ultimate Spider-Man. Plus his style kind of works for Spider-Man.

He just shouldn't be anywhere near the Avengers let alone be allowed to force them to fight ninjas for ten years.

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I'm not a huge fan of Morrison.

Charles Soule is great and Jason Aaron's independent work is even better than his work for Marvel. Everyone check out Southern Bastards if you haven't already. I think the nearest to a "favourite" writer I have is Mark Waid. And the closest I have to a least favourite writer is definitely Bendis. I cannot stand him, the way he writes, or the fact Marvel force him onto every single big title.

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I haven't read Slott's Spider-Man but I was always really fond of his The Thing, She Hulk, and Silver Surfer runs. He has a really intuitive understanding of tone and (perhaps a niche concern here) works with continuity very well. His Avengers: Initiative with Gage was really good too.

Oh, and this Mighty Avengers run was perfect.

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@Blue Demon You should try to read that Brubaker run sometime. It's really good. I always thought Steve was a little cookie-cutter and had long since got bored of the endless WW2 flashbacks but Brubaker breathed new life into the character for me. Plus he made use of some really obscure, neglected Cap villains.

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@Eddie Brock I concede.

@Lord Wraith I guess with more and more films coming out both DC and Marvel are always going to opt on the side of simplifying things as much as possible for new readers. They want to capitalise on people that see Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad by making the comic book versions of those characters as much like the film versions. It makes business sense if you presume existing readers aren't going to leave in their droves - which they currently haven't done.

@Blue Demon Sure, Bucky didn't want to be Captain America to begin with but he didn't want anybody else being Captain America (if not Steve) more. I feel like Brubaker was forced into cutting what he had in mind short because Marvel needed Steve back seeing as the film was coming out. Then they shuffled Barnes off into irrelevancy despite his being at the heart of the best Captain America story in... well, forever.

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@Eddie Brock Says the guy who has been writing the Peter Parker/Mary Jane/Gwen Stacy love triangle for half a decade.

But I agree on the progression front: it's maddening to see the same stories rehashed over and over again. Plus it holds both Marvel and DC back. There's an endless cycle of promising young characters brought through (remember when the Young Avengers were a thing? Gravity?) that end up on the scrap heap because the older characters will never be allowed to age out for fear of the new ones not catching on. If Marvel had any cajones, Bucky would have stayed Captain America, Steve would have stayed dead, and old, grey-haired men over at DC would stop forcing Barry and Hal onto people that grew up with Kyle and Wally. (And I say that as a fan of Hal Jordan)

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You're the worst. @Blue Demon

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I'm working on posts. Just not Cap or Ivy posts. :D

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Me when I read the second sentence.