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Mead posted...

Have you read Jonathan Hickmans run of Avengers?

I'm really, really, really not a fan of his work in general. I hate what he's doing with the X-Men right now, and I thought pretty much every single facet of their new version of Secret Wars was kind of terrible (and I'm also annoyed by Marvel's current practice of taking the names of old popular crossovers and "redoing" them, because it kind of underlines how creatively bankrupt they are as a company at this point). He's not the worst writer they've had there in recent times, but that's faint praise indeed.

I honestly haven't seen much of anything from Marvel or DC worth caring about since 2011. Which is a shame, because they both spent most of the 2000s recovering from the creative void that was the 1990s, and there was reason to be optimistic about a lot of titles. Then both companies basically rebooted all of their major franchises around the exact same time for the significant worse, and haven't really recovered for the last decade.

I can't really speak on Hickman's specific run on Avengers because Marvel's comics line in general just feels like an utter wasteland of bad ideas at this point, so I mostly ignore it (or forget about it after hearing about it). But considering I dislike pretty much everything I know he worked on (including the Avengers issues involving the Incursions and stuff leading up to Secret Wars), I can't imagine he wrote any brilliant storylines that I would love if only I discovered them.

Like I said, though, I get the impression that Marvel's comics at this point are mostly an afterthought, and only exist so they can have different writers (who are mostly just grown-up comic nerds writing borderline fanfiction) brainstorm tons of ideas and throw everything at the wall in the hopes that something might stick, so they can use it as a plot idea in a movie years from now. We're never really going to get the sort of iconic storylines and memorable plot moments (that always get recycled into every version of a character, a la Dark Phoenix) like we used to, because the entire nature of the medium and the value of its audience has changed (which isn't helped by the rush to incorporate plot elements from the movies back into the comics in a desperate pandering attempt to sell comics to the millions of people who watch the films, which almost never works).
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