:rolleyes

No: way too much old school crap is just that: crap. Busiek took old school and updated it somewhat -- in itself also not a good thing. I can see why people who weren't Avengers fans already didn't care for the title: it was pretty continuity heavy and depended on you already caring about the characters and their relationships. I can also see why long-time fans of the series -- by that I mean back into the mid/early seventies or earlier -- saw it as a retread. For me, however, who came on board with the Michellinie run, I thought it was gorgeous and hit a lot -- but not all -- of the right notes. Firestar, "Justice," Silverclaw and Triathalon struck me as self-indulgent and cliched, and some of the stories were pretty *meh* -- I'm thinking in particular of the Triune understanding one, but as far as the relations between the main characters -- the "real" Avengers -- I was in heaven.