Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25734102-20150512183630

I never like being the guy who decides to like or dislike something before I read it, but the more I read and think about "All New, All Different" Avengers the harder its becoming to not pre-judge that book as a giant mis-step.

Lets shelve the good intentioned but mis-guided and poorly handled Falcon America & She-Thor stunts, and the likely upcoming Ironman swap for now.

One complaint I've seen a lot of people make of Marvel the last few years is since the Dis-Assembled and Bendis New-Avengers era, the company has been putting more and more of their focus on fewer and fewer characters. Where the company used to be more widely spread; solo heroes in their books, teams made up largely of heroes who exist only to be on those teams. However those lines have been disappearing and fewer and fewer characters are being counted on to sell more and more books. If we look at the All New, All Different team, The Vision is the only character who doesn't have/won't have 1-2 more monthly titles.

This shrinking of the Marvel U isn't good, and while "pimping" their characters out so much helps sell books in the short term, in the long run it leaves them wit fewer creative options. Some of the best and most memorable Avenger stories involved characters who only appeared in Avengers books, and all these characters having 2-3 other books limits a lot of those story telling opportunities. To now tie this back in with the stunt writing they've been doing lately, if this team was Vision, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Wiccan, Patriot, Speed Miss America and Hawkeye (Kate) it would give them their younger, more diverse, new look team that has no ties or conflicts with other books(mmmmm, using the YOUNG AVENGERS to put together a younger, more diverse team of Avengers......) while freeing up Captain America, Ironman & Thor to head line their own solo books 