I am historically not a major Avengers reader. It also tangled with a crazy line-up of line-wide events, rivaling 90s X-Men for the amount of interruptions of its plot – to the point that the interruptions became the plot, and standalone arcs were mere breaks in the action. The period also expanded the team franchise from its previous all-time high of two books in the late 80s to a minimum of four. Strange, it became completely normal for any Marvel hero to be drafted into the team if it served a story. If Busiek helped to centralize and modernize a team that had lost its core in the mid-90s, Bendis made them Marvel’s ubiquitous, movie-ready flagship.Īfter his introduction of new members like Spider-Man, Wolverine, Luke Cage, and Dr. Head to the guide right now, or read on for more background on the period and how I assembled this Avengers resource.ī rian Bendis completed the modernization of the Avengers begun by Kurt Busiek in 1998, taking them from a quaint card-carrying club of do-gooders to the Marvel’s Justice League. In most cases, I explain the placement of each story and offer special notes for reading. That’s over 350 individual issues from more than a dozen titles. The guide includes the story-by-story or “trade reading order” of all the Avengers team titles from Brian Bendis taking over Avengers with issue #500 in 2004 to the end of his run on the 2010 volumes of Avengers and New Avengers in the wake of Avengers vs. I’m excited to unveil my first non-X-Men comprehensive reading order: Avengers Reading Order – The Bendis Years (2004 – 2012)
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