What if Meltzer wrote New Avengers & Bendis wrote JLofA (volume two)?

[Frostbite883]

What if, back in 2004, Brad Meltzer became the writer of The New Avengers
comic series while Brian Michael Bendis were appointed to be the writer of
the second volume series of Justice League of America in 2006?

What would Meltzer & Bendis do during their slints on NA & JLofA?

How would comicdom fans react towards those writers during their tenure
on the comic book series they're writing?

What sort of stories do you think they'll write in
those comic book titles during their time on them?

Do you think either one of those writers will stay in those comic book titles much longer or for a short while?

And most importantly, how would this scenario effect
Marvel Comics, DC Comics and the mainstream comic book medium?

Note: I hope doing this thread twice in two forums is okay with you, CBR admins.

[WorstThingUS]

It'd be same. I still wouldn't buy either book for the same reasons I'm not buying either now. The only question is which 80's DC plotline would Bendis recycle as an "event" and which C-list DC heroes would he become obsessed with and try touting as A-list?

[CannonFodder]

It'd be same. I still wouldn't buy either book for the same reasons I'm not buying either now. The only question is which 80's DC plotline would Bendis recycle as an "event" and which C-list DC heroes would he become obsessed with and try touting as A-list?

Personally, I enjoy it when lesser characters get the spotlight for a while.

Like Vixen delivering basically the deathblow to sort-of-Amazo in The Tornado's Path, and Red Tornado taking out Grundy despite being on the verge of death himself. Good stuff.

[Global Honored]

Hypothetically speaking....things would have been different......I think.

[BurningStarIV]

I would definitely have not read JLofA, a series which I actually really enjoyed, and I probably would have picked up the first issue of New Avengers and nothing else. I really dislike Bendis' writing. Giant crossover series like Civil War, Secret Invasion, and Dark Reign really drive me nuts, and I tend to not buy any of the titles involved except for titles I am already reading. And I was never terribly fond of the Avengers.

[joint venture]

I would definitely have not read JLofA, a series which I actually really enjoyed, and I probably would have picked up the first issue of New Avengers and nothing else. I really dislike Bendis' writing. Giant crossover series like Civil War, Secret Invasion, and Dark Reign really drive me nuts, and I tend to not buy any of the titles involved except for titles I am already reading. And I was never terribly fond of the Avengers.

His Avengers are a shallow bunch I agree. But then, what background can you build for them without interfering in an Xbook, a "Marvel Event" or perhaps even your twin brother title (another Avengers book). Marvel is like an 70's and 80's USSR, evrything for the state and the state is everything. As succesfull as you can get in that company, you just wrote an action sequence of 8 issues where nothing happens because it starts pink, goes red, then blue, then green, and finally pink again. Nothing ever happened. And people seem to like this.

What's "easy" with the JLA is that most characters have such an extense biography that most of the time good stories come up when you intermix "the characters" with "the team". Red Tornado's story mixes with the teams dinamics and an adventures with Amazo and Grundy that somehow pastes it all together. So equally when you use Batman, you have thousands of comics and characters that back you up.
Who can say that about Mockingbird, Spider-Woman or even Iron Man?

None is better than the other, but one publisher requires a smart team player while the other relies on the others talent and proposals.