Who will be the New Avengers and Mighty Avengers artists? [Archive]

Dusty.

10-02-2007, 06:48 PM

Anybody have any ideas? These are Bendis comics, so it's safe to say that he has his choice of the best artists available and willing.

Here's a list of artists who fit:

John Cassaday - wrapping up Astonishing X-Men.

Paul Pelletier - B lister, but solid and dependable. Wrapping up FF run.

Mark Bagley - he's an A lister when drawing Spidey, but a b lister on other stuff. He's drawing an upcoming Mighty Avengers arc.

Andrea Di Vito - He's a b lister who is doing nothing but short term things now.

Jimmy Cheung - If there is going to be no more Young Avengers, he'd be a great choice for New Avengers.

Trevor Hairsine - Disappeared after his X-Men mini series. Not fast enough.

John Byrne - If the eternal fued is ever resolved, he'd be a great Avengers artist.

Jackson Guice - He's got this Ultimatum mini series, but after that?

Marc Silvestri - I can dream.

Michael Turner - Maybe this is why he was pulled from that Ultimate Wolverine project.

Greg Land - I think he's fantastic, and he's wrapping up his Ultimate/Supreme Power mini series.

Carlos Pacheco - He needs to come back to Marvel.

Phil Jimenez - Would rather he did Avenegers than Spidey, though I look forward to that.

Ron Garney - I hope not, though I think he's very improved and fast enough to handle deadlines, so I think he'd be a perfect candidate for a secondary series like New Excalibur or New Exiles.

David Finch - Never should have left in the first place.

Anybody have any ideas or wishes?

Pwood

10-02-2007, 07:09 PM

I always liked Ed McGuinness' art. He would be a really good fit for either, IMO.

Kirk G

10-02-2007, 08:05 PM

John Byrne

He revamped the WCA once before, and he could do it again!

Omega Alpha

10-02-2007, 08:06 PM

I'm happy with Bagley on Mighty. I'd like to see Finch on New Avengers, but he's working on Wolverine now. I think Turner is too slow, isn't him? And he was taken out the Ult. Wolverine mini because there won't be one anymore. Jimmy Cheung could work. Cassaday shouldn't be on either because there are already enough problems in continuity due to a slow artist on MA, it would be dumb to bring another one.

Fatguy

10-02-2007, 08:18 PM

I always liked Ed McGuinness' art. He would be a really good fit for either, IMO.

That would be cool.

Dusty, you have a lot of names I would like to see. Cassaday would rock, but I would hate to see the Avengers go down the road Astonishing has. And Pacheco is one of my favorites, but I believe he has schedule problems as well these days, thats why he's off Superman I hear.

Hopefully Finch will be back on one, also would like to see Meleev do New Avengers. Alan Davis would be cool on Mighty. I would say Gary Frank, but he left for DC :(

CaptainCanada

10-02-2007, 08:20 PM

I really liked McGuiness' Mighty Avengers in his issue of Fallen Son.

Since MA has to play catch up, Bagley would be your man for that.

Pwood

10-02-2007, 08:22 PM

John Byrne

He revamped the WCA once before, and he could do it again!

I would definitely be down with that...Byrne on one, McGuinness on the other. I would have very little to complain about...

Cam Man

10-02-2007, 10:04 PM

The current artists leaving? Not Yu! I'm really really liking his stuff. It's so different than anything out there. All sketchy but finished. The best of both worlds.

Will.S

10-02-2007, 10:15 PM

Ideally Ed McGuinness with Jason Keith still on colors should take over for Frank Cho and David Finch would come back for Leinil Yu. Dave Finch's style now incoporates too much lines and overrendering but his figure work is still great and style has always fit Bendis's writing style like a glove.

Unfortunately it looks like Ed's stuck on Hulk and Dave's going to fully do Wolverine (which is a funny coincidence). I have no idea who they have planned though, perhaps Salvador Larroca is going to do Mighty or something.

StoneGold

10-02-2007, 10:45 PM

Pat Zircher would be perfect on either book, but his style on Terror, Inc would work amazingly well on New Avengers. He'd have to scale it back a bit for Mighty, but he could do it easily.

StoneGold

10-02-2007, 10:46 PM

This might be a little outside the box, but Pasqual Ferry.

Young Avenger

10-02-2007, 10:53 PM

Greg Land - I think he's fantastic, and he's wrapping up his Ultimate/Supreme Power mini series.

I don't want to see that tracer on any Avengers book.

Will.S

10-02-2007, 11:17 PM

This might be a little outside the box, but Pasqual Ferry.
Nah I don't think he's outside the box, he'd be perfect for either title but Mighty especially.

Fatguy

10-02-2007, 11:28 PM

This might be a little outside the box, but Pasqual Ferry.

That would be great, I really like Ferry.

StoneGold

10-02-2007, 11:33 PM

Nah I don't think he's outside the box, he'd be perfect for either title but Mighty especially.

Outside the box, only because his art has a particular European flair not usually seen on Avengers books. Which would kind of fit the art theme of the two books lately, with Yu and his almost Japanese woodcut-eque style, and Cho's overpolished meticulous boobarama.

StoneGold

10-02-2007, 11:41 PM

As to Ron Garney, it was leaked in a Spider-Man thread by fellow artist Dan Panosian that Garney is working on a solo book. Which is good, he's a much better solo artist than he is team artist. Which is nothing to be ashamed of. I think Dan summed it up in the thread well, could you imagine Frank Miller circa DareDevil working on Avengers?

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showpost.php?p=5420990&postcount=7

I think Yu might actually fit into that category somewhat. I love his cluttered fight scenes, but I can't help but think they would work better with a single character focus.

Babylon23

10-03-2007, 12:06 AM

I don't really care who the artist on NA is, since I don't like the book.

As for Mighty, I'd love to see Bagley take over. He's a great team book artist. More importantly, he's reliable and professional, so the book might actually come out on time for a change.

neored1

10-03-2007, 02:14 AM

Bagley on Mighty Avengers works for me as well. A great artist that can meet deadlines. Hopefully he becomes permanent.

As for New Avengers, I wouldn't mind seeing the following artists:

Oliver Copiel
Andrea DiVito
Ron Garney
John Romita Jr.

David Finch would be great if he'd come back although after reading the interview he had in Newsarama, I realize that with his work ethic, he wouldn't last long in a regular book.

neored1

10-03-2007, 02:17 AM

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10-03-2007, 02:19 AM

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seeso

10-03-2007, 03:32 AM

The perfect choices are the two Lees.

Mighty Avengers - Jim Lee
New Avengers - Jae Lee

a-spidey

10-03-2007, 04:14 AM

New Avengers - Jae Lee

would like to see that too. Would be a great replacement for Yu, who i really like on that book. Sorry, that he leaves.

matthewaos

10-03-2007, 09:15 AM

Yu is leaving from NA? If that's true, it's a shame. I would like to see JRJR though.

stelok

10-03-2007, 09:33 AM

I vote for John Cassaday and Mark Bagley. I'd love to see their stints on Mighty and New Avengers

Shyft

10-03-2007, 11:16 AM

StoneGold

10-03-2007, 11:16 AM

Yu is leaving from NA? If that's true, it's a shame. I would like to see JRJR though.

I'd rather not. Not so much because I don't like Romita, because I adore his art, but he's a much better solo character artist. I've seen him draw team books occasionally before, and he just doesn't have the dynamic. Again, I say this not as a knock against the artist. Steve Ditko didn't have the team dynamic. Frank Miller doesn't. Never did. There are a lot of extremely talented artists who are just much better matched drawing a book where a solo character is the focus. And JRJr is one of them.

And stuff like Eternals isn't so much a team book as it is an ensemble book. You never get a multi-page, multi-character battle, where every character has to continue to be the star.

Magneto Rocks

10-03-2007, 11:20 AM

Ideally? Perez, my favourite ever Avengers artist.

But since that's simply not happening, nbor are any of my other top picks- Finch or McNiven- I'll jsut sit and pray it's not someone like Yu.

Rahul

10-03-2007, 11:28 AM

Andrea DeVito would be excellent for Mighty.

Ed McGuiness wouldn't be bad for Mighty either.

Man, its hard to come up with an artist for New's gritty....how about Paul Gulacy, Clayton Crain, or David Aja?

StoneGold

10-03-2007, 11:35 AM

on New Avengers i have a list of people i would like to see.

Jae Lee would be my number one pick. His work on the Sentry and Inhumans mini shows he can hit the gritty stlye of NA perfectly, and yet his work is clearer than Yu's, so it may with NA some more fans.

David Aja has been showing on Iron Fist that he can do fantastic street level combat, and his lines lines are nice and rough without being unclear.

Kaare Andrews. His work on Spiderman: Reign was very nicely stylised, and i think would work well in NA.

I think Jae Lee fits into my single character artist theory. Besides, the way he works, I think it's best to leave him for prestige projects.

I want to say Aja and Andrews are too, but honestly, they are so goddamn versatile, they may not be. Their styles seem to change from project to project. But give Aja seemingly doesn't do 22 pages a month, he may not be the best choice. And I don't know that he can't, but on Iron Fist, there are always the flashbacks done by other artists.

StoneGold

10-03-2007, 11:37 AM

Andrea DeVito would be excellent for Mighty.

DeVito's not bad, but I get a little sense of Paul Ryan from him. His art is technically very good, but kind of static.

matthewaos

10-03-2007, 11:38 AM

David Aja and Kaare Andwers are nice for NA I think. I see what you are saying about JRjr...

rogerio

10-03-2007, 12:27 PM

CARLOS PACHECO is a very good choice to Mighty Avengers.
http://images.newsarama.com/dccomics/Mar07/superman_2/SM_Cv662_658pl_solicit.jpg

Will.S

10-03-2007, 08:41 PM

DeVito's not bad, but I get a little sense of Paul Ryan from him. His art is technically very good, but kind of static.
I think Andrea is a great guy and is solid as a rock. He does particularly well with the cosmic stuff and even a Thor book would be great but when he does fill ins (like when he did them for Young Avengers) his art seems pedestrian in comparison to a guy like Jimmy Cheung and I think the same thing would happen if he was on either Avengers title.

CARLOS PACHECO is a very good choice to Mighty Avengers.
http://images.newsarama.com/dccomics/Mar07/superman_2/SM_Cv662_658pl_solicit.jpg
I really wished he came back from DC.

Carlos looks to be in it for the long haul, maybe as long as Kurt Busiek will be since they like working with each other so much. It just seems to me that since he spent such a long time with Marvel he wanted some fresh stuff to draw like Superman over at DC which looks phenomenal when he does work with Kurt. It's a similar thing to guys like Gary Frank and the Kuberts going over to DC as well and maybe Phil Jimenez coming to Marvel in a vice versa fashion.

Dusty.

10-03-2007, 09:29 PM

I really wished he came back from DC.

Carlos looks to be in it for the long haul, maybe as long as Kurt Busiek will be since they like working with each other so much. It just seems to me that since he spent such a long time with Marvel he wanted some fresh stuff to draw like Superman over at DC which looks phenomenal when he does work with Kurt. It's a similar thing to guys like Gary Frank and the Kuberts going over to DC as well and maybe Phil Jimenez coming to Marvel in a vice versa fashion.

Pacheco kinda left Marvel in a huff after Marvel started pulling back his control of Fantastic Four. It was right after his run ended that he split for DC. I get the sense that he was a much bigger Marvel fan.

Trey

10-04-2007, 05:04 PM

Mcguinness on Mighty and Divito on NA (He's A-list in my mind)

streator

10-04-2007, 05:16 PM

cheung or coipel would be great on mighty avengers.

hawkeye comeback

10-06-2007, 01:38 PM

i would like to see bagley, Perez and cheung on mighty avengers

on NA: deadato would be cool

z0mbie_aut0pil0t

10-07-2007, 08:42 AM

Jimmy Cheung would be awesome.

Agent_Torpor

10-07-2007, 09:40 PM

I would definitely be down with that...Byrne on one, McGuinness on the other. I would have very little to complain about...

I couldn't be more bored with that. I know what Byrne's gonna draw, after reading him over the years on various titles. I want some fresh ideas, some new styles.

Byrne, great guy, but his time on a Marvel team hero book should be done.

matthewaos

10-08-2007, 05:10 AM

Byrne and McGuinness?Oh no, this is a disaster!!!! Byrne's time has long past, I think. And McGuinness' pencils are crap, imo, and not for a book like NA, at least for the status the book is now.

Lombardo!

10-08-2007, 05:19 AM

McGuiness for Mighty, Finch for New.

that would be nice.

Lombardo!

10-08-2007, 05:23 AM

CARLOS PACHECO is a very good choice to Mighty Avengers.
http://images.newsarama.com/dccomics/Mar07/superman_2/SM_Cv662_658pl_solicit.jpg

Pacheco for every Marvel book, please.

I miss him so

Bulky Brent

10-08-2007, 07:25 AM

They definitely need to get Finch back on New Avengers.

marco19

10-08-2007, 07:44 AM

according to bendis Michael gaydos is doing issue 38 of new avengers featuring a jessica jewel jones Luke CAge story

matthewaos

10-08-2007, 07:49 AM

No so exited about Gaydos... He is not bad, but he is not an artist that I would buy a book for him.

Jettison

10-09-2007, 01:18 AM

I like Pasqual Ferry & Ed McGuiness....but I also think (unrealistically) Frank Quitely would do an awsome job...if he was more timely.

MAK15

10-09-2007, 08:23 AM

No so exited about Gaydos... He is not bad, but he is not an artist that I would buy a book for him.

seeing as he did the interiors for Alias and Pulse and the ish he's doing is centered around Jess Jones, I'd say he's a pretty good choice.

Rahul

10-09-2007, 09:59 AM

Yeah, he's good for the character oriented stories..just not the big bad action that Avengers have.

Just a crazy thought. Humberto Ramos. For NA. Dark, gritty, and messy. Fits nicely.

Dark Ben

10-09-2007, 02:55 PM

either bill sienkiewicz or jae lee for NA
and MC Guiness or JRJR for MA

Smokey17

10-09-2007, 07:34 PM

Jimmy Cheung is going to do an least an arc on might avengers. he said he was doing that at the Orlando comicon

jamiejame911

10-09-2007, 09:45 PM

Chung
Mcguinness
Ferry
Lee

I mean honestly Alan Davis could rock MA easily. His last avengers arc was pretty good and he is good with the playful nuiances that this title now is known for.

matthewaos

10-10-2007, 01:59 AM

Yeah, he's good for the character oriented stories..just not the big bad action that Avengers have.

Just a crazy thought. Humberto Ramos. For NA. Dark, gritty, and messy. Fits nicely.

I loved Ramos work in Revelations, and I was sure he was a great artist, but I can't stand him on super hero comics. X-Men is the best. Spider-Man was not so bad. Wolverine was really really bad...