>>77025814Most writers never acknowledge any story that isn't either 1) Their own, or 2) ridiculously famous. So Hickman didn't act like he'd read any Avengers except Bendis's Illuminati issues, many Batman or Daredevil writers don't seem to have read anything but Miller, etc.
Writer can actually come up with interesting stories if they read the obscure or bad comics and try to make those story points work. Ewing got to be popular at Marvel because he made Mighty Avengers into the "traditional" Avengers book despite the non-traditional cast - and he did it mostly by connecting the characters to their history, which is something that you don't get a lot of any more.
