What writers would YOU have as the Marvel Architects?

[turtletrekker]

Hickman
Gage
Slott
Pak
Van Lente
David

[SJNeal]

Peter David
Kurt Busiek
Mark Waid
Greg Rucka

That is all.

[Sighphi]

This guy Sighphi.
I heard he does real REAL dialogue, more REAL than Bendis.
People dont even finish sentences.

[Jack J Napier]

Jeph Loeb
Ed Brubaker
Matt Fraction
Mark Millar
BMB

[Beadle]

You've got to try and separate "writing" and "dialogue" from being an architect. You're talking about structuring the company's storylines and direction.

I have no idea how many should be involved, because too many cooks are worth two in the bush (or something), but mine would look something like:

Kurt Busiek (Because the guy can think big, but stays true to the characters).
Jonathan Hickman (To keep all the threads tied together, and to direct the Other MU stuff with Pak i.e. not Avenger/Spider/X-Men/Urban & Espionage/Cosmic).
Roger Stern (Because he knows how to plan a story).
DnA (For larger scale stuff, and to direct the Cosmic side).
Dan Slott (For smaller scale stuff, and to direct the Spiderverse).
Matt Fraction (For mid-to-large-scale stuff, and to direct the Avengers line).
Rick Remender & Ed Brubaker (To direct the Urban & Espionage line).
Christos Gage (For mid-scale stuff, and to direct the X-verse)
Greg Pak (for mid-scale stuff, and to direct the Other MU stuff with Hickman)

So that's 11 people (Yes, DnA are two people, not one symbiotic entity) and I think that's more than enough. I'd love to use guys like Warren Ellis and Peter David, but I think they work best when you give them their own sandbox to play in. Fabes Nicieza and Dan Jurgens were unlucky to miss out.

And I'd let guys like Millar, Bendis, Morrison and even Loeb send ideas in remotely, but then let the architects structure them into something workable (like turning a Bendis 7-issue series into what should probably be 3 issues, making Morrison comprehensible by mortals, toning Millar's "big-and-silly" ideas down a touch, periodically slapping Loeb and saying "don't be ridiculous - try again").

[Nomads1]

Jeph Loeb
Ed Brubaker
Matt Fraction
Mark Millar
BMB

Pretty much, maybe with the exception of Brubaker, and, perhaps, Fraction, the guys I'd like to keep as far away as possible from being the architecs of the MU, or even writing in it. IMHO, they think so much outside the box, that they loose sight of the box. They are what I consider shock value writers. The goal is to shock, whether it makes sense or not. I say let them have the Ultimate Universe, to give it their own flavour. For me, for the Marvel Universe properly said, I'd go with the list bellow:

Kurt Busiek [
Jonathan Hickman
Roger Stern [I](
DnA
Dan Slott
[Christos Gage

Although I'd probably also add PAD, Nicienza, Waid, McCaan, Van Lente and Parker. And perhaps Heinburg doing some consulting.

Peace

[Beadle]

Although I'd probably also add PAD, Nicienza, Waid, McCaan, Van Lente and Parker. And perhaps Heinburg doing some consulting.

I really thought about Waid, and Nicieza. A lot. But I was getting too many people in.

PAD I explained, as I think he's better off left to his own devices (like Ellis) than trying to map out the whole company and play nice with the other kids.

Van Lente, Parker (and Aaron, and a bunch of others) I see more as writers of great stories and dialogue, than as architects of the MU as a whole.