Since Bendis’ fingerprints are ingrained in so much of the Ultimate Universe, I’d recommend interested readers just check out the complete Comic Book Herald guide. Throw in the creation of Jessica Jones, Miles Morales, and Goldballs, and it’s a heckuva ride! Beginning with Ultimate Spider-Man #1, one of my absolute favorite Marvel comics of all time, Bendis helped shape the direction of the Marvel Ultimate Universe, and frankly much of Marvel’s future. Of course, it would be doing Bendis a disservice not to give appropriate attention to his incredible work across Marvel’s Ultimate Universe. The prolific Bendis’s output and longevity are unrivaled in superhero comics this millennium, leaving a legacy of characters, comics, and Marvel architecture that speaks for itself.Īs Bendis leaves the Marvel offices after 18 years for an opportunity to write DC Comic’s Superman books, it’s worth compiling all that Bendis produced for Marvel.

The status quo is restored and there’s a bantering stroll into the sunset for Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, the two characters at the heart of this run.ĭecent story, poor editorial decision making.No writer has had more of an influence on Marvel Comics in the 2000’s than Brian Michael Bendis. As with the final volume of his other Avengers series, as has been noted elsewhere, this is very much Bendis putting the toys neatly back in the toybox for his successor. The confrontation rapidly escalates to involve all then current Avengers as Bendis deliberately echoes his d é but on the title a decade previously with Avengers Disassembled. It’s at this point the Avengers realise what, if not who, they’re battling. There’s some initial confusion when the police turn up at Avengers Mansion with an arrest warrant, followed by some uncharacteristic behaviour on the part of some team members. It’s delivered far more adroitly than previously, beginning with the slaughter of magic adepts by a surprising source who’s been well characterised throughout the run. Were any one of them the illustrator for the entire story complaint would be muted, but to throw all their wildly disparate styles at the audience for a continued story is at best editorial complacency and at worst editorial contempt.īrian Michael Bendis picks up on elements he’d introduced during this run’s first New Avengers volume, with an otherworldly threat that strength and technology can’t handle.

In their own right Michael Gaydos, Carlos Pacheco, Michael Avon Oeming and Mike Deodato vary between very good and excellent comic artists, some better suited to superheroes than others. The concluding run of this New Avengers iteration disappoints due to artistic inconsistency.

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