Captain America #23

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Comments

[thanekos]

The best case scenario for any new development in a long-existing Big Two superhero comics character - a future run makes an above-average story out of reverting that development.

[scorntx]

What about building on that development in an engaging fashion, while still being respectful to the original writer's intent?
(With the proviso that the development is not terrible in some way.)

[zachbeacon]

Sure, like when Fabian Nicieza took over Thunderbolts for Kurt Busiek or ...

...I'm sorry, the most recent thing I can think of is from 20 years ago. I guess Bendis and Brubaker were on the same page RE Daredevil 15 years ago.

Granted sometimes a sharp turn is really satisfying. The Jeff Parker Rulk run was just a series of excuses to watch Ross get beat up after he spent the entire Jeph Loeb being invincible and insufferable.

[cyberghostface]

With Daredevil Bendis wanted to end it with Matt going to prison but didn’t want to dump something like that in Brubaker’s lap to clean up. But when they had lunch together Brubaker suggested that Matt should go to jail and Bendis got excited and told him his plan. I think Brubaker would have had the prison happen later on but the two were able to coordinate it together.

[zachbeacon]

Yep, that was exactly the thing I was thinking off. Bendis didn't want to write the next guy into a corner* so but it turned out that Brubaker was on the same page. Every other modern DD writer has been a drastic change from the person before them (including the Smith run that took everything Kesel built and burned it to the ground).

*Which is funny because he used to joke about how, if he ever left Ultimate Spider-Man, he'd do exactly that. Granted the context made it seem like he might have been poking fun at Stan Lee (who left Peter with extra arms) and/or Robert Kirkman (who REALLY wanted his job at the time). Plus he never actually left Ultimate Spider-Man.

In any case *looks at how he left the X-Men and what he's done with Superman* Bendis seems to have changed his mind.

[mazway_75]

Compare to Waid ending his run with a good thing of Matt out and about with his identity public, a good twist on the character...and then Soule has everyone forgetting it and Matt a D.A.