Marvel Hotline: Brian Michael Bendis on New Avengers

Brian Michael Bendis takes a look back at the events leading up to SIEGE in a special multi-part series of Marvel Hotlines. This week's topic: the formation and early adventures of the New Avengers! Don't forget to check out the SIEGE Hub for checklists, previews and the latest news on the epic event seven years in the making! Also, be sure catch the rest of Brian Bendis' Marvel Hotlines in the coming weeks!

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[ricktorprime]

when is super hero squad going to have the avangers or spiderman

[alchemiust]

i got a whole list of marvle books as my christmas presents

[alexrogers411]

Even after Civil War, which was insulting and awful I could still read a (New) Avengers books... except.... i don't want to read a book with Spider-man in it. James Wolverine guy doesn't help either. I mean it, Spider-man is done for us older readers. Joey doesn't want us to read the book. Civil War #2 was insulting. I just don't want to read him ever again.

[RedDragonM1]

I don't know what's going to happen to The Avengers books after SIEGE, but if Spider-Man, Wolverine, and The Sentry aren't in the book any more, than I'm not going to read them.

[godginrai1]

I wont knock anyone who is reading and buying all this, siege, dark avengers, the lists the mini series, the spin offs from secret invasion, civil war and all the one shots etc, but this is really a larger version of the clone saga - its the same structure. Best of luck to Marvel but I see right through it all.

[Lukestrople]

Agreeance here.

Marvel lost some of its magic this decade. Everything's trimmed into pretty six-issue arcs and creative teams are given too little time to develop any sort of organic feeling continuity. Used to be the status quo changed, but gradually and believably over time. Now every story is an EARTH SHATTERING CHANGE and you get numb to it after a while. Now take Kurt Busiek. He knew how to use Marvel's history to his advantage and still remain true to the characters.

[PaidYouOff]

Oh and "Where have you gone, Stan Lee?".

You do realise that Stan Lee likes Bendis, right? Just shut up, you miserable bastard.

[PaidYouOff]

@fullforce1990 Lastly...why do you care who's married and who isn't? Are you a fucking woman?

[PaidYouOff]

@fullforce1990 Hahahahahahahaha. Such a stupid idiot. Stan Lee was a fucking genius, but have you read a story of his lately? Reading Daredevil #1 is like reading something trapped in time. There are better writers now and there are better artists.

You long for the days when the best the X-Men could do was an annoying story that somehow involved Jean Grey? When Bucky was dead? Why? What Ed Brubaker has done with Bucky is awesome, in my opinion. There is no factual good or bad.

[PaidYouOff]

@fullforce1990, so wait...how does you being alive longer have any bearing on your knowledge vs mine? The knowledge is there for all, and thus all can know it. Secondly, "good" is subjective. So you don't know what makes a good comic to anybody but yourself. Learn that. As for S.I. seeming like they made it up as they went along; they sewed the seeds since the first issue of The New Avengers, before Civil War. It was planned. You just couldn't keep up. Either way, nobody's forcing you to read.

[fullforce1990]

Atum, the son of Gaia and the Demihurge (Basically God) and brother of Thor who slayed the Elder Gods of Earth killed by fat skrull god. Bendis really did his back checking on that one.. I know it's trivial, but it's just one example of a over hyped writer who only likes to recreate something that someone else created first and put his little touch on it and claim it as his own. The over the top summer storylines with DC and Marvel are so boring.

[fullforce1990]

Oh please. I've been reading comics longer than you've been alive.. I'm pretty sure I know a little more about good comics than that crap that marvel is flushing out on a monthly basis. You can give me the thumbs down all you want, but Bendis' books are trash. The whole "Whose A skrull" storyline drug on with a whimper of a finale. It was confusing because I believe they were making up as they went along. The so called Skrull gods and the capture of beings like Lilith and death of Atum..