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Post by dbutler69 on Feb 7, 2022 14:38:08 GMT -5
The Avengers have been blessed with more than a few excellent writers over their nearly six decades of existence. So which one is your favorite?
I'm tempted to go with Dave Michelinie. My hesitation is that he didn't write the Avengers for that long. Plus his run was interrupted a couple of times. Same with Jim Shooter, for that matter. I'll have to ponder this a bit myelf before answering.
Edit: That first name should be Stan Lee. My computer was acting funny when I created this poll and I didn't notice that goof. You'll probably all be able to figure that one out, anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2022 15:28:57 GMT -5
For me--
Kurt Busiek
with Englehart in 2nd and Shooter's 1st run 3rd (2nd run would put Shooter towards the bottom of the pack for me).
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 7, 2022 15:38:19 GMT -5
Probably Englehart. But it's been so long since I've read any Avengers that could well be nostalgia.
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Post by badwolf on Feb 7, 2022 16:04:58 GMT -5
It's a tough call between Rog and Dave, but I'm going to go with Michelinie, since that's where I started reading the book.
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Post by shaxper on Feb 7, 2022 16:47:35 GMT -5
Englehart. That Giant-Size era, especially the Kang storyline, was mind-blowingly awesome.
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Post by berkley on Feb 7, 2022 16:59:53 GMT -5
I don't have to think much about this one: Englehart is head and shoulders above everyone else, for me. Roy Thomas and Stan Lee next. Shooteris over-rated, IMO, and benefited greatly from the Perez artwork making his comic read better than they would have otherwise. The others I haven't read much - hardly anything at all, really.
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 7, 2022 17:14:41 GMT -5
Stan Lee set the template for the oft-bickering heroes, and some of Marvel's greatest team dramas, but Roy Thomas defined the title like no other. He made The Avengers rise from second-place team book to the Fantastic Four to standing shoulder-to-shoulder with it...occasionally surpassing it. Thomas knew the tone and meaning of every character, and knew how bring the earthy, suffering best out of them. Thomas was also the writer who gave the book one of--if not its greatest saga in the Kree-Skrull war, and unlike "event" comics in Marvel's then-future, this one felt like it had a reason to exist, and logically involved all players seen. The title would never see the consistent heights like the Thomas run again
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Post by Crimebuster on Feb 7, 2022 22:12:33 GMT -5
For me, Avengers consistently had great writing for the first 25 years. Sustained excellence that stands up against any mainstream comic ever. Helped to a large degree by the fact the series only had 7 regular writers over that quarter of a century, and that's including the 7 issue stint by Gerry Conway.
My personal ranking of Avengers writers is:
1. Roy Thomas 2. Jim Shooter 3. Roger Stern 4. Steve Englehart 5. Kurt Busiek 6. Stan Lee 7. David Michilinie
...and then a very, very large gap until the next.
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Post by SJNeal on Feb 7, 2022 22:40:19 GMT -5
1. Busiek
2. Stern
3. Harras (don't shoot me!)
4. Englehart
5. Hickman
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 7, 2022 22:46:38 GMT -5
Busiek edges out Stern for me, and really no one else is close. Hickman and Bendis get negative points for sure.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 7, 2022 22:53:45 GMT -5
That's tough, for me, since I tend to think of the various runs for specific stories, rather than complete runs on titles. Roy and Englehart would be close, based on that..
If you wanted to poll artists, then it is Perez, by a long stretch, with Buscema in second.
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Post by berkley on Feb 8, 2022 1:53:32 GMT -5
I would have the best of Perez (during the late Englehart period and the first Shooter run) pretty much tied with Buscema/Klein, I think - and I might put the two or three issues BWS drew even higher.
After that, I would say 60s Buscema/Palmer, then the Byrne/Marcos Nefaria issues.
Other than that, not sure. I like Don Heck's stuff, some but not all the Cockrum stories, ...
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 8, 2022 5:14:04 GMT -5
I chose Kurt Busiek over my #2 choice, Roy Thomas, because Kurt writes better, more naturalistic dialogue. Otherwise, I like them more-or-less equally. Roger Stern is close behind them in third place, with "T Lee" a distant fourth.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 8, 2022 5:21:14 GMT -5
I chose Kurt Busiek over my #2 choice, Roy Thomas, because Kurt writes better, more naturalistic dialogue. Otherwise, I like them more-or-less equally. Roger Stern is close behind them in third place, with "T Lee" a distant fourth. Fourth? Man, he doesn't even rate for me. Tommy Lee's run on the Avengers was atrocious...
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Post by dbutler69 on Feb 8, 2022 6:43:06 GMT -5
When I conceived this poll, I meant to allow people to vote for 2 writers, but then I forgot and of course now I can't edit the poll. And I want to vote for both Englehart and Michelinie. Sigh.
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