Which writer uses Marvel Continuity as a creative tool?

[Kirk Langstrom]

Not to mention the fan reaction when Bendis decided that the Hulk had killed hundreds of people over the years... boy, that got the older readers' panties in a bunch.

Yeah, my ****ing head almost exploded, lol.

Although i kind of thought later on that that was just more of the Skrulls "divide and conquer" tactics...

 

[TheCorpulent1]

And after Captain America swore that in regards to Wolverine "The Avengers would NEVER have him" back in cap annual #8 (which Bendis obviously never read).

Yeah, as well as the fact that the last time Iron Man advocated lethal force with the Avengers back in Operation: Galactic Storm, Cap actually quit the team for a while over it. In NA he's like, "Really? I don't know... oh well, whatev, I guess it's cool."

In fairness, though, they've been reintroducing the lethal side of Cap that he'd kept mostly buried since WWII for a while now. Brubaker had him potentially murder some AIM or HYDRA agents (I can never remember which) early in his run through carelessness. That may or may not have been the Red Skull using the cosmic cube to subtly push him over the edge, though.

 

[Upset Spideyfan]

The thing that really irks me about Bendis is that he'll tackle concepts that he really doesn't understand (most recently magic) and instead of bothering to do the research and try to adapt his story to the rules and foundations previously set up, he'll go and change the concept with reckless abandon. Its just a sign that he doesn't really give a ****. He and his story is God and nothing else warrants the effort it would take him to respect previous work.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, he seems to write like I thought all fiction writers wrote when I was a kid: no research, just make s*** up. I learned better but Bendis apparently never did.

 

[kguillou]

I absolutely hate it when writers feel that they need to go back in the past and add something that was never there in the first place, it rarely ever works out for the best and only jumbles continuity. The only one that i approve of is the resurrection of Bucky, brubaker came through on that but he really raped the X-Men with his Deadly Genesis storyline, god what a mess that was. I wish writers could move forward now backwards and just tell new stories.