Les Vengeurs par Carlos Pacheco
A Comic I Worked On That Came Out On This Date
NEW AVENGERS #1 came out on December 1, 2004 , and became the flagship title of the Marvel line for many years thereafter. The core concept for the series had been brainstormed at one of the regular Marvel summits, at which writer Mark Millar wondered aloud why the Avengers team was being made up of primarily second-string characters rather than the biggest heroes in the line, most notably Spider-Man and Wolverine. Brian Bendis , rather than Mark , would up with the gig to write NEW AVENGERS (as well as the final issues of AVENGERS that would set it up by destroying the standing team.) The artist was David Finch , fresh from Top Cow , who had collaborated well with Brian on a number of issues of ULTIMATE X-MEN . Brian fulfilled the mandate of the new series in his own way; in addition to Spider-Man and Wolverine, he also brought in Spider-Woman, Luke Cage and the Sentry (and further down the line Iron Fist, Doctor Strange and others.) Still, as expected, the book was a sales juggernaut right from the start, a stylistic midpoint between the traditional Marvel Universe and the tone of the Ultimate Universe that had been largely developed by Brian . It was also at around this point that Brian and I became aligned on the series—up to this point, I’d been as much an impediment as a help, as it was my work on AVENGERS that was being detonated to make room for this new incarnation. Still, all the way through the profess, I always knew that NEW AVENGERS would work. How could it fail, given its premise? From here, and across the next eight-plus years, Brian became the central architect of the Marvel Universe , writing most of the stories that became the line’s big events and which wound up impacting on other series up and down the line. It couldn’t go on forever, though—nothing named New ever can—and once we brought back the regular AVENGERS title for THE HEROIC AGE in the aftermath of SIEGE , a sense began to grow that it was time to move on. In the aftermath of the AVENGERS VS X-MEN crossover, we executed a round-robin of assignments that saw Brian exit for the world of the X-Men. At a later Marvel Retreat as his final issues were coming out, I presented Brian with this memorial award for his years of service on the title.
Bah, ça fait quoi ici ? Tu veux causer une attaque à Mallrat ?
Ah oui tiens.
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