I’m practically alone in considering that run to be Morrison’s best work, and one of the best comic book runs ever (albeit it significantly and fundamentally flawed), so what do I know? To use what might be a less controversial example, Bendis’ work here almost evokes Grant Morrison’s introduction to his New X-Men run. Still, I believe the same principle was at play. Obviously very few runs can be measured against Alan Moore’s work, and I imagine many would scoff at a comparison between Bendis’ Avengers and Moore’s Swamp Thing. It was a radical approach, but it allowed Moore to write one of the most well-received comic book runs ever. Alan Moore famously revealed in his second Swamp Thing issue that everything we thought we knew about Alec Holland was wrong – he wasn’t a man transformed into a plant, he was a plant pretending to be a man. A lot of key writers taking over old and struggling franchises have launched rather brutal attacks on the fundamentals of the series in question. In fairness, it’s hardly unprecedented in mainstream comic books. In many ways, Disassembled feels like a brutal demolition. That meant that some walls had to get knocked down. Bendis wasn’t just going to adopt a caretaker position on the series, he clearly planned some very serious remodelling.

Not only did he demolish a lot of the iconography associated with the bunch of superheroes, he also launched a fairly scathing deconstruction of the stalwart superhero team. Taking over for a three issue arc on the main Avengers title, Bendis literally destroyed the team. The super-star writer had enjoyed long and well-received runs on Ultimate Spider-Man and Daredevil, but his tenure on the Avengers franchise proved much more divisive. In anticipation of Joss Whedon’s superhero epic, we’ll have a variety of articles and reviews published looking at various aspects of “Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.” Today and tomorrow we’ll be taking a look at the two Brian Michael Bendis events that kick-started the writer’s work on the franchise.Īvengers: Disassembled welcomed Brian Michael Bendis to the Avengers franchise. April (and a little bit of May) are “Avengers month” at the m0vie blog.

Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis