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Over at Comixfan.com, some guy forgot to take his meds and posted several threads listing -- in GREAT detail -- the 40 greatest Avengers stories and the 40 greatest X-Men stories.
The top Avengers story? Avengers Forever by Kurt Busiek and Carlos Pacheco. It figures someone this obsessive about his comics would love a self-referential, thick-on-continuity comic, right?
But here's the kicker. The dude closes out his column by quoting Tom Brevoort on the subject of Forever:
Tom Brevoort: "I don't know that it's the best Avengers story of all time {Editor's note: Tom edited Avengers Forever and had a lot to do with its creation, so he's probably just being modest}, but it's probably the densest, building on the foundation laid down by Thomas, Englehart, and all the others who'd come before. I'm also quick to point out that it took us 15 months to get all 12 issues to the stands--but despite whatever outcry there was at the time, nobody really remembers it now, and the story is far better in its final form for having had the delays."
Where have we heard this before? Has this always been the attitude over there?
Posted by YMB Staff at August 28, 2006 09:15 AM