User blog comment:20thCentFopp/The First Avengers Team and Marvel Hierarchy/@comment-61022-20131028061342/@comment-4652104-20131028162231

I'm mainly an Avengers (and X-men) fan and for me the turning point is Heroes Reborn. While the Franklin Richards story itself is oldschool (with those awkward narrator notes "the boy feel anger and terror"), the Avengers run from that point till disassembled can be in my opinion seen as almost entirely modern.

It's different for X-men, but also more complicated so I'll just leave it at that.

As for art. I think a lot of modern art in comics is rubbish - either caricatural (latest Thunderbolts run) or illegible (Avengers after Siege). I'd take a 60s comicbook over that any day. At least you know what you are looking at in those.