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As OP, I want to take this thread on a tangent.
Since starting this, I have become thoroughly disenchanted with shared universes and mainstream Marvel and DC.
To be honest, I would rather see 'dream' creative teams work on original, continuity free creations than on established ones, particularly at Marvel and DC.
Which is why for instance I am so delighted that Brubaker seems to be going almost entirely to exlusively doing creator owned work.

So the question is: Would you prefer creative dream teams to work on Marvel or DC characters or to work on original properties?

Conan for me is the only character who perfectly epitomises the genre that if people want to do sword and sorcery, I prefer they do Conan and not a pastiche.

The only characters I have any abiding affection for who I would like to see done by the perfect team are Batman and Doc Strange.
I still have huge affection for Shang Chi and co but Doug Moench's take on the character is so firmly entrenched in my mind that I don't think anyone else could do him convincingly.
Even when Ed Brubaker - who I love - did him in Secret Avengers, it wasn't Shang Chi and Shang isn't defined by his costume or super powers like most characters so unless they can retain the core of the character, I see no purpose in reviving him. Heck even Moench and Gulacy couldn't get it right anymore in their 'recent' mini series.