[Captain Nash]

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Originally Posted by GizmoTron

House of M was a great idea through and through, but it was the start of the big events that Bendis and the rest of Marvel could come up with but not know how to plan their way out of it.

Bendis was always a great idea man like that. For instance bringing the classic X-Men to the present to confront the convoluted mess that had been modern X-Men was a great idea. Problem was he didn't seem to know what he was supposed to do with them once they got here (except to officially out Iceman and to use Kitty Pryde as his personal mouth piece and marry her off to his avatar Peter Quill, all of that he was certain about).

yes!! (not meaning to derail the thread so I'll stop after this or carry on through PM)...it's like he had this great vision and could start off a story on it decently, but when it came down to the mechanics of actually following the entire story through to that vision, it almost always puttered out. He was great at beginnings and horrible and endings. Much better at solo books where the entire focus was on the quasi-day to day events of a person's life. In addition to being able to tell the story he wanted through one or two people, and being able to forgo the rest of the cast because they were background characters. It's not really that great to do that ina team book, but he did it anyways, time and time again.