Bendis and Deodato relaunching H4H?

[Hypestyle]

so who ended up dying in that final NA issue?

[Nomads1]

And it's not just six books a month, when some of those books are being double shipped.

A great, and very pertinent, point.

Could someone put in a good word for Jeff Parker please? I'd read his take on Heroes for Hire instantly.

I'd sure try it out.

Peace

[DebkoX]

so who ended up dying in that final NA issue?

No one, if I'm right, no avenger died.

[Robby Robot]

Bendis can write so many books because I don't think he edits, rewrites, or 2nd drafts anything. He vomits up a bunch of words on a page in 10 to 15 minutes and says, "there's a comic book."

With his decompressed style, he doesn't care about pacing or the economy of a page. Let's characters babble on for as long as the conversation in his head takes him. Doesn't go back and rewrite it to get to the point quicker and more efficiently.

At least I'll get one good arc out of Deodato on Avengers by Hickman before he goes back to Bendis-ville.

[Rheged]

At least I'll get one good arc out of Deodato on Avengers by Hickman before he goes back to Bendis-ville.

I'm sorry. Deodato repeatedly drawing 9 panel talking heads, or doing stat 9 panels of talking heads, is just a criminal waste.

so who ended up dying in that final NA issue?

As I understand it, everyone's still dead (Hand, the Drum brothers, Jennifer Kale), though Hellstrom is in the astral plane and says you can't kill him.

[Vic Vega]

There was only one really good H4H comic book. The one that John Ostrander wrote.

And even THAT book only lasted 18 issues when Cage's 90's solo in comparison lasted 20 issues.

Its probably a good idea to call the thing anything BUT Heroes for Hire.

Avengers, Inc. Champion for Cash, Defenders for Dolo anything.

[Nomads1]

And even THAT book only lasted 18 issues.

19 + an annual. I'm very, very picky today.
More to the point, I like to think that the whole Heroes Return, and the book sort of loosing it's reason to be (replace the Avengers and the heroes who had "died" at Onslaught) had a little to do with it being canceled, rather than just poor sales (though I will admit it wasn't burning up the charts, it wasn't doing so bad either). POf course, if it WAS doing very well, they'd have found a way for it to continue, but this book has become such a "hidden cult" that I have a hard time believing it really did so bad.

Peace

[Omega Alpha]

Yes, this is something that I never complained about the guy. However, IMHO, everyone can suffer in the battle of quantity versus quality. Six books a month can be daunting.

Peace

Kirby had a pace almost as fast, and he was DRAWING the book as well as writing most of the plot.

Of course, he was the King, but still shows it isn't impossible to do that and keep quality.

[CyberHubbs]

Didn't Kirby have assistants?

[Monty_Cristo]

And even THAT book only lasted 18 issues when Cage's 90's solo in comparison lasted 20 issues.

Its probably a good idea to call the thing anything BUT Heroes for Hire.

Avengers, Inc. Champion for Cash, Defenders for Dolo anything.

it was the best that Cage has been written in years. it paid proper respect to what came before; with Luke and Danny's relationship. when you look at the subsequent "heroes for hire" teams, they don't even include Luke and Danny. think about it.

[Monty_Cristo]

19 + an annual. I'm very, very picky today.
More to the point, I like to think that the whole Heroes Return, and the book sort of loosing it's reason to be (replace the Avengers and the heroes who had "died" at Onslaught) had a little to do with it being canceled, rather than just poor sales (though I will admit it wasn't burning up the charts, it wasn't doing so bad either). POf course, if it WAS doing very well, they'd have found a way for it to continue, but this book has become such a "hidden cult" that I have a hard time believing it really did so bad.

Peace

if it had come out around Civil War, that team would have been the New Avengers.