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I watch everything made in the MCU, so I Iove things being connected within the same universe. It's a feature to me. To someone who doesn't want to watch everything in that universe, it can be a bug. However I watch very little else outside of comic book movies and sci-fi, so I always want more content. I just simply don't watch anything else, really, ever so there's very little competition for my viewing time (which honestly isn't all that much at this point in my life anyway).

I won't watch Avatar due to my dislike for James Cameron, just like I try to avoid anything by Ridley Scott, Quentin Tarentino or Martin Scorsese. I don't like the creators, so I simply don't watch their work. It's fine, let those pitchforks fly.... I'm used to it. On an even more unpopular note, I generally like the work of people like James Gunn, Joss Whedon, Jon Favreau and Taika Waititi who others have strong negative associations with... so to each their own.
 
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altcunningham said:
I always think of when Bendis took over Avengers in the 2000s and suddenly every character ever was a New Yorker together speaking Yiddish.

You could even walk it back to Hudlin who decided that every black character was connected and best friends because they were black.

I think it destroyed the... There was like a tension that was balanced between Spider-Man on his own and Spider-Man hanging out with Wolverine. And once they started networking and crossing over left and right and living together, it wasn't a reward. It was the status quo and it really wasn't interesting.
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I actually liked how Lobdell had Gambit and Bishop actually develop a respect for one another in the late 90s after years of Bishop suspecting / hating him. Even during the period right as Onslaught was arriving and Xavier was yet to be the X-Men traitor not Gambit, Bishop was still learning to accept that Gambit might be genuine, and Remy was trying to use his usual charm to win folks over. From there their time in space where Bishop ends up injured and gets kidnapped by Deathbird was a decent time for Gambit/Bishop to deal with one another after Gambit had been vindicated (and yet to be shown to be a different kind of "traitor" before he joined the team).

I've read enough Bendis to know I never need to read his drivel again. When something doesn't work he just forces it to happen and then gallivants off to some other property to botch that as well. I actively avoid new projects of his to avert frustration and general annoyance with his writing.
 
Not to derail from the Bendis and Cameron Avatar bashing (can't stand either), but there is a new 3rd party accessory set for Venom.

You can order it here if you're fast, before he sells out. He's offering it in blue or black. I ordered 1 in black because that's the Venom I'll be using more often.
 
RichardSimmonsRobot said:
I've read enough Bendis to know I never need to read his drivel again. When something doesn't work he just forces it to happen and then gallivants off to some other property to botch that as well. I actively avoid new projects of his to avert frustration and general annoyance with his writing.
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Hahahaha this, so much this.
I tried soooo sooooooo hard to like him because he was EVERYWHERE and just . . . ugh, nope. He threw up all over the Marvel Universe then threw up in the mop bucket on his way out.
 
EnigmaticClarity said:
What were Bendis's vomitous storylines? I've only read two from him--Ultimate Spider-Man and Infamous Iron Man--and I loved both. I know he created Miles Morales, but I didn't read whatever story he did that in.
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I think New Avengers was when people started turning on him. His dialogue style was starting to become self-parody and it was a terrible fit for a big, high-stakes team book, and in general he's a bad fit for a big, high-stakes team book. He's best in his own sandbox. He can do crime, he can do coming-of-age stuff, he's just a guy who thrives with smaller stages.
 
EnigmaticClarity said:
What were Bendis's vomitous storylines? I've only read two from him--Ultimate Spider-Man and Infamous Iron Man--and I loved both. I know he created Miles Morales, but I didn't read whatever story he did that in.
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For me, mid New Avengers and afterwards barring Miles. Anything he's done at DC has been uninteresting.

Still love his Alias and Daredevil. Powers fell off, too, but was great when it was firing on all cylinders.
 
Decalogue is a top DD arc for me.

And that Mary. " And the thing is. I didn't even eat the cheese."

I think he just got too comfortable and became immune to editors or at least people that might make him second-guess things.

Like Shania said. Okay, so you invented Miles. That run don't impress me much.
 
Agreed with most of these takes on Bendis. His Daredevil is great - I actually reread it this year. I liked early New Avengers enough - it would have been interesting to see the concept play out a little longer. If I remember correctly the whole thing was almost immediately subsumed by the mid-00's event mania starting with Civil War. That whole era is such a mixed bag - Civil War has aged poorly now that I'm not a teenager, I never liked Secret Invasion, but it all lead to Dark Avengers/Dark Reign, which I actually think is great. Very much a mixed bag on BMB.
 
Bendis' Daredevil run is excellent.

I didn't read Ultimate Spider-Man, but heard good things.

New Avengers was garbage... everyone is quippy and talks like Spider-Man, endless one word word-balloon conversations...so, so bad. Borderline unreadable for me.

Big oof with All New X-Men as well.

So I agree with the assessment that Bendis was solid on solo books and was much less effective handling team dynamics.
 
I can’t stand Bendis. His constant usage of filler words and ellipses drives me mad. Why does he need to make every character sound like a whiny drama queen? It’s absolutely obnoxious.


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