So CBR posed an interesting question, if Marvel was to reboot their whole line of books, which books would I want hitting the shelves. Well here is what I would want. 52 titles to make up their entire line of titles(not including the Icon imprint). Every book that is branded Marvel with the Marvel logo is listed that I would want.
Amazing Spider-Man by Peter David and Humberto Ramos
Venom by Dan Slott and John Romita JR.
Osborn By Kelly Sue Deconnick
FF by Jonathan Hickman and STEVE McNIVEN
Sue Storm by Nancy Butler and Sara Pichelli
Thor by Matt Fraction and Oliver Copiel
Journey Into Mystery By Keiron Gillen and DOUG BRAITHWAITE
Sif and the Warriors Three By Katheryn Immomen and Tony Moore
Captain America by Ed Brubaker
The Falcon by Anthony Johnson and ROBERTO DE LA TORRE
Agent 13 by Katheryn Immomen
Invincible IronMan by Matt Fraction and SALVADOR LARROCA
Rescue by Kelly Sue Deconnick and ANDREA MUTTI
Hawkeye By Jim Mccan
The Incredible Hulk by Jeff Parker and Steve Dillon
The She-Hulk by Marjorie Liu and Sara Pichelli
The Avengers By Grant Morrison with art by J.H. Williams
Marvel TEAMS:
Defenders by Brian Bendis and HOWARD CHAYKIN
Young Avengers by ALLAN HEINBERG and JIM CHEUNG
Nextwave by Warren Ellis and Stuart Immomen
SHEILD by Jonathan Hickman and DUSTIN WEAVER
Olympus by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lante and NEIL EDWARDS
Marvel COSMIC:
Inhumans by Brian Reed and CLAYTON CRAIN
Spider-Woman, Agent of SWORD By Brian Bendis and Alan Davis
Annihilators by DnA and GABRIEL BÁ
Guardians of the Galaxy 2.0 by DnA and Skottie Young
Street Heroes:
Runaways By Brian K. Vaughn
Moon Knight by Bendis and Alex Maleev
Ghost Rider by Jason Aaron and BILL SIENKIEWICZ
The Punisher by Greg Rucka and MARCO CHECCHETTO
Immortal Weapons by Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction and David Aja
Black Panther, The Most Dangerous Man Alive by David Liss and FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA
Alias Vol.2 by Brian Bendis and Michael Gaydos
Daredevil by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark
Tomb Of Dracula by Mark Millar and PAOLO RIVERA
X-books:
Utopia by Matt Fraction and a rotating art team
Uncanny X-men By Kieron Gillen and TERRY DODSON
Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender and Jerome Opeña
X-Factor by Peter David and whoever is available
Wolverine By Jason Aaron and RENATO GUEDES
X-Legacy(formerly X-men legacy) by Mike Carey
X-23/Jubilee book by Marjorie Liu with art by Noto and Takeda
Lost Stories:
The Lost Adventures of the Dark Avengers By Various and MIKE DEODATO
Lost Tales of Cable and Hope by Various
Ultimate Books:
Ultimate Spider-Man by Bendis and DAVID LAFUENTE
Ultimates by Hickman and CARLOS PACHECO
Ultimate Miniseries with Art by RAFA SANDOVAL
Ultimate X-men By Nick Spencer
All Ages:
All Ages Spider-Man by Jeff Parker
All Ages X-Men by Jeph Loeb
All Ages Fantastic Four by Geoff Johns
All Ages Avengers by Jeffery
Now of course this is an optimal list. This doesn't take into account that some writer's can't take a load this big but these are my dream teams for the current direciton of books.
And of course you may be wondering, why these titles. Well.....
Some of them are a if it ain't broke, don't fix it situation. To be honest other than a few small changes here and there I kept creative teams the same. I also consolidated the books. Rather than 8 books featuring one character, it is instead one character in their title book, and then a team book featuring that character. We are taking out the everyone gets a free Wolverine or Spider-man with purchese mentality.
So I left the all-Ages and Ultimate books basically alone. They are quite good as it is so why break em?
I then brought in two lost in time books. The first is The Dark Avengers. In my mind, we only got half a dozen Dark Avengers stories. So filling in the pieces with a series of Dark Avengers stories. The other book, Cable and Hope, is designed to fill that hole left by Cable and Hope. A signifigant amout of time passed in that books short history. There is clearly some room for more conflicts and other enemies. The brilliance of this is that you can end up with someone besides Bishop hunting them down who can then end up showing up in present day books at some point.
And that's a great segue over the X-Books:
Uncanny, Xforce, Xfactor, and Wolverine got almost no changes. X-men Legacy simply had the men portion of the title dropped. And my additon is Utopia. One of the complaints of recent X-events is that the X-men haven't really gone anywhere. they used to be a globe trotting team so now they can be, while Utopia will focus on the events at home. X-23 will continue but will also be the home to Vampire Jubilee.
Then we have the street books. these are the most, "out there" books on this list. Obviously, Brian K. Vaughn on Runaways again seems unlikely. And since Mark Millar has apparently decided to never write for Marvel again it seems unlikely that he will write Tomb of Dracula. But after reading his work on Ultimate Avengers, wouldn't that just be awesome? Moon Knight is basically the same. Ghost Rider would be amazing if we had a great artist and a great, time tested writer. I'm not even touching Punisher since there have been almost no times where I wasn't impressed by Greg Rucka's art partner so that is going to stay.
Immortal Weapons is another just because I want that book back situation. Black Panther has been solid so far and I'd love for it to continue. And everyone who has read Alias knows Bendis needs to get us a second volume. and Lastly we need to put Greg Rucka on Daredevil. It's been a dream of mine ever since his brief arc with Ed Brubaker to put Rucka on that character. SO MAKE IT HAPPEN MARVEL.
Marvel clearly needs a cosmic revival. And uniting them under DnA would make the most sense. Continuing Annihilators, witha little character work would make a great spine for the cosmic universe. But then adding in a new version of the Guardians of the Galaxy(Lead by Rocket Raccoon) along with some Inhumans and SWORD action and this could actually be a segment of the unvierse that people will remember.
So Nextwave, Young Avengers, and SHIELD are just continuations of dream teams. Defenders would give Brian Bendis a magic focused team book to utilize his supernatural characters. And then Olympus would be a focus for Hercules and Ares and Phobos.
All of the Avengers focused books are mostly just dream teams with some interesting ancilary titles. Sue Storm and Sif both deserve their own books. An Agent 13 period book along with a modern Falcon book would be absolutely very fitting in this day and age. And the spine of the entire universe would be a Grant Morrison written Avengers book. Because that man needs MORE POWER.
So yeah, Some of these ideas are out there, but reducing the amount of redundency and giving a little more focus and weight to each book will improve the quality of each book.
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