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

Maybe the sales were great but that is all there is. Probably longstanding fans who wanted a complete collection who still bought the series, Spider-man and Wolverine fans obviously joined the club. Some new readers who didn’t care at all for the rich history of the Avengers and some Bendis fans who knew him from Daredevil and Spider-Man ultimate. Can’t imagine that, with the exception of Bendis fans, there were people actualy enjoying these books for the last 8 years.

That said, Fraction would kill (and anyone still hating on Fear Itself should read his wrap-up interview here on newsarama, puts the whole thing in a new perspective), Hickman would elevate the whole thing, but I have to say that I would love to see it fall into Remender’s hands. Uncanny X-Force is the best superhero team book published by the big two, and he could bring magic to the Avengers.

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!

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.

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.

But honestly I’d like to see someone from outside the current inner circle take a shot at it. Maybe someone like….Mike Carey? He’s been doing great work on X-Men and The Unwritten. He can do character based stories like Bendis, but he’s also got the chops to do “big screen” events as well. I’d like to see his take on The Avengers.

Mark Waid

Loved his Capt America and a lot of those had a nice Avengers tone!

Alan Davis writer and artist!!

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.