>> Either way, there’s no doubt the impact that Bendis’ historic run on Avengers has had. Controversial and polarizing at times, he’s taken the once-struggling book and made it into one of Marvel’s most bustling franchises, one that’s depicted in a hit Disney XD cartoon and the focus of a hugely anticipated live-action feature film this coming May.>>

Busiek and Liefeld did the same thing.

i loved Bendis’ run, but i understand the screaming it induced. regardless, the Avengers should always, always be the top Marvel book. and it wasn’t that way for a long time before Bendis came and took it there. and he held it there for a very long time. say what you want, but the best selling comic in the industry for it’s entire run starred Norman Osborn, Bullseye, and Victoria Hand. who else could have done that (all props to Deodato also)?

my one major complaint about his run was that his opening salvo tore the Vision in half, and for 8 years i’ve been thinking how great Vision would fit into his lineups. then he brings him back as a sidenote mid-comic, right as he’s leaving.

with the above character in mind, i would love to see either Jonathan Hickman, Mark Waid, or Zeb Wells take over avengers duties. just not Slott, Loeb, or Fraction.

Too many Avengers titles now. It is so watered down. Avengers Academy seems at times that it takes place in another universe. Too many titles going in too many directions. I mean really another new Avengers comic that features the characters that are going to be in the movie? Did comic fans really demand that?

Even though Fear Itself was not the best, I’d be interested to see Matt Fraction take a crack at Avengers. Considering how good his run on Iron Man has been, and the short-lived greatness of the Order, I think he has a chance of doing pretty well.

Other than Fraction, I’d like to see maybe Van Lente, Dan Slott, or Nick Spencer give it a shot. I would say Mark Millar, but I’m betting he’s still going to be busy with his creator owned stuff at that time.

Yeah, Bendis did help make the Avengers, Marvel’s #1 franchise, but at what cost? Most other franchises suffered, esp., the X-Men.

I hope to God, that his next project won’t be the X-Men, whom he raped and pillared for the sake of the Avengers!

I never read Avengers until Bendis took over. I am sad he is leaving but excited for someone else to take the wheel.

Obviously he’ll be following Grant Morrison on Batman (probably writing all Batman titles!) and i for one welcome our new overlord!

Even those that still dislike him , can’t argue against the fact that he put them on the higher pedestal they deserved and were sorely missing for eons .

Bare some obvious golden eras and legendary runs , the Avengers were mostly that “extra thing taking half the pages of our fantastic four , spider-man and xmen books ” (before the 00s marvel books were collected in monthly and bimonthly big magazines such as “strange” and “Nova” in my country) sometimes cool , but mostly meh (remember uber lame arcs such as Tetrarchs of Entropy , Proctor and his Cersi obession or the Crossing ?) .

Bendis arrived and put it on top again , and by the time he will be done , he’d have fixed most (i dare not say all) characters he might have wronged in the Process .

Heck i feel that Hawkeye (movie based fame boost aside) came back stronger than ever .

His run will be remembered , and could easily serve as a strong fundation for even better , maybe by someone not antagonizing some of the older fans

cant believe were 17comments in and yet no ones bashing Bendis yet. Dear Bendis, thank you for saving the Avengers franchise and making it a top of the stack read. thanks for all those wonderful moments and many laughs. you made these titles the comics that gave back. Thank you sir. now onto the next big RUMOR…Hickman would rock the hell outve Avengers, he’s damn good with legacy (see FF and Shield). and id so love to spend money on some Jeff Parker NEW AVENGERS.

I was never interested in the Avengers until he started on the book. He mixes things up and actually makes the stories interesting. Can’t wait to see what he has in store for his end.

He’s one of the reasons I don’t pick up Marvel nearly at all anymore. See ya pal.

“He’s one of the reasons I don’t pick up Marvel nearly at all anymore. See ya pal.”

I’ll second that. When Bendis first started making it big I liked his style. But after about 2 years of Daredevil that same style turned into a repeating one note. I can’t even read a whole issue of anything he writes now. Just won’t hold my attention. I guess most Marvel fans enjoy him enough for the higher ups to put him in charge of everything.

And yes he did take Avengers to the top of the sales charts for Marvel. It helped he had 100% promotional backing from Marvel along with every event over the past decade tied into it. Meanwhile the former king franchise X-Men went into a steep decline which opened the door for Avengers. Something tells me his predecessor on the title, Geoff Johns, would have been able to do the same thing under those same circumstances.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, you freaking hack! Best news I’ve heard all day!

Bring Back Busiek and Perez! Bye Bye Bendis you really ruined alot of the good that was the Avengers. I may start to read it again!

Pretty much the only thing that would get me to buy Avengers is if Ed Brubaker gets the book. Well Hickman or Remender I would buy, but neither of those seem terribly likely with their current workloads.

I gave him a fair shot for a few years. The fact that the Avengers became Any Character Bendis Thinks Is Cool is what turned me off to the title. They tended to be written in the same voice. When a major plot point of an issue was who would babysit Luke Cage’s child, I knew I made the right decision to drop it.

I’m not necessarily bashing Bendis, the profile of the title was definitely raised during his tenure but to me it wasn’t an Avengers title once Civil War started. It was an exercise to tell a line wide story for a few years using whatever characters Bendis wanted. It worked for Marvel, just not for me.

I may be in the minority but I’m not ecstatic that Bendis is leaving the Avengers.

Sure, his Avengers run was underwhelming but New Avengers was generally a good read.

Also, more than anything, I’m worried that Marvel will give this title over to Fraction. I hope not; most Thor readers will tell you to avoid the guy like the plague and his X-Men run didn’t win him many X-Men fans either.

If it were up to me, I’d love for Hickman to take over but maybe Marvel will get someone from outside their current crop to do Avengers, since it’s guaranteed to draw a lot of interest post-movie. I’m secretly hoping Marvel has some deal with Grant Morrison in the works but Waid works too; I’ve been very impressed with his Daredevil.

Meanwhile, Brubaker might be good on New Avengers.

Glad to see him go. Hopefully, he will go across the street and work at DC.

Oh and I think Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning would fit the book nicely!!! But it will never happen….

i have to wonder if this just isnt another stunt. instead of faking character deaths its announce a writer is leaving and then lets magically bring him back 11 months later. see he was gone for a long time! in “comic time”.

Thank God. I can finally add Avengers to my pull-list.

No Fraction, please! If “Fear Itself” was a trial run for Avengers, we’d all be better off if it was cancelled.

My real problem with BMB’s run on Avengers is that — looking back at it from memory — it seems like the books just existed to fill the backstory for the “event” books. And that’s not a good memory. His Ultron story in Mighty Avengers is the only thing (off the top of my head) that didn’t seem to be tied to an event that was actually memorable.

BMB — please return to Powers. We miss that!

All the above comments may or may not have relevance to this announcement, and for the vocal public, good on you. Speaking as a Bendis fan until of late, I’m not sure I even care about his “status update”, except for one area, and one only(excluding the positive elements that have been inserted into the storyline). I sure would like to read an Avengers storyline I CARED about and wasn’t guilty about owning for years after. For example, I’m not comfortable with explaining to my future generations how Norman Osborn became more than “the nutball, lawnmowed-head dad of Peter Parker’s buddy who did stuff and helped kill Gwen Stacy, whatever, et cetera-boorring” villian. *cough, 66.6% of Spider-Man’s villians, not including Kingpin would’ve been a better adversary; *2nd cough, Chameleon*
For example. (And no, its a point I have no interest in vesting towards any major shift in cultural opinion. Its a point, plain and simple.)

Writer who is a year older. The hint can’t be taken literally. But if so, guessing they probably release the news at San Diego Comic On in July, Rick Remender or Dan Slott.

Best news since 2004… Will try to make it a national holiday when he leaves…. What a relief. Will start with Avengers again as soon as he leaves.

Whoop! Best news ever. Bendis’ run has been the worst I’ve ever read on Avengers. Just the other day I was thinking about dropping all the Avengers titles after 25 years of collecting.

His dialogue is terrible, he doesn’t have a fresh idea in his head. he keeps using the same villain and don’t get me started on the “too many crossovers”

So long Bendis