Remember that time when Marvel hired Angel Medina to draw Mighty Avengers but he quite because he thought the book was boring…?
My buddy actually met Angel at the Philly con a few years back and a discussion was had about how Quesada offered him an Avengers book. The book was Mighty Avengers — this is true, you can actually find a number of sites reporting that at the time. It would have been the Venom Bomb/Symbiotes storyline that was instead drawn by Mark Bagley.So what happened? Angel got bored. He wasn’t crazy about the line-up, as far as he was concerned, they were not “THE” Avengers. But the real killer was Bendis. Despite the success of their previous collaboration on Sam and Twitch, Angel said it was just too boring to draw pages and pages of the Avengers standing around talking.
The Internet even has one of the pages Medina penciled before quitting:
December 17th, 2012 at 10:48 am
Why should people read this blog? Every other post is from Bleeding Cool, Graeme doesn’t even add his to cents to the discussion, just a snarky “Remember when…” and a link to a different site. What is the point of coming here?
December 17th, 2012 at 11:27 am
I agree. I read this on Bleeding Cool originally.
December 17th, 2012 at 12:09 pm
I was going to say you could read this blog because it has fewer typos, but then I noticed one in the first (and only) original sentence of this post.
In any event, this is a weird story to spread around because it kinda boils down to “my friend told me this guy told him this thing one time a while back.”
Blogs!
December 17th, 2012 at 7:41 pm
Haha, Rich does have a lot of typos, RF, and they’re so noticeable that they always pull me out of the article. But I am in no position to throw any stones! See my above post where I type “to” instead of “two”…
December 18th, 2012 at 4:31 am
Folks, you don’t HAVE to come here.
December 18th, 2012 at 10:19 am
WE come here for comic book news…and hope its ‘new’ news…not stuff from last week
December 18th, 2012 at 9:44 pm
“Folks, you don’t HAVE to come here.”
Sure but some of us remember an era of Newsarama with actual news , and more than Graeme’s “newstracing” or axes to grind . Some might still hope things get better .
But i guess i should at least now know to only follow Albert Ching’s articles then