Monica Rambeau -- by whatever name -- is another terrific character who just needs to get a great creative team in her corner. I'd buy a well-thought-out series with her as the headliner.

This one loves him some Mantis, too.

Thanks for the correction.

I have all those issues, but hadn't read them in nearly 20 years, so I was just going by memory (which, has, on occasion, failed me).

Anyway, in honor of this (and MI-13) I'm going to pull then from the shelf and give them a re-read.

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Scarlet Witch suffers from ill defined powers that do whatever the writer wants them to do. It's a reason for the limited runs of many sorcerous characters. House of M/Decimation put her power levels to godlike.

The Vision has suffered from writers' image of him/it as a Pinocchio character. The thing about Pinocchio is that the story ends when he becomes a real boy. With the Vision, that's time to hit the reset button. The whole "can he be human" angle was answered in the two Vision and Scarlet Witch minis. If a character only has one story arc, then a solo ongoing title isn't suited for him/it.

Black Knight is interesting with the whole one foot in each world angle, but it seems writers are usually uncomfortable blending those worlds and favor one side over the other (remember when he was using a light saber?). I'd like to see the blade's curse defined better because its consequences have changed a few times.

I have no real opinion on Captain Marvel/Photon/Pulsar except she needs at least one story where she gets to kick Genis Vel's ass.

I would be one of them, but I can't believe I forgot about her using Pulsar! Guess I lose a few points for that. For anyone who wants to see what the fuss is about with regards to Monica, or at least one reason why I love the character, check out Avengers Vol. I # 279. A good showcase for why I always thought Monica was a great character (yeah, this is around the time Dr. Druid joined the team, so it's not perfect, but the scenes with Monica were great), and why it makes what came after even sadder...

http://en.marveldatabase.com/Avengers_279

Seems like there are lots of candidates for Avengers solo titles. Maybe Marvel should re-introduce Solo Avengers or Avengers Spotlight as an anthology title, with a different character each arc, as a way to test the waters so to speak...

Another character with lots of potential and was uderused: Spider-woman II, or whatever she's called now...

Think of it, Wolverine meets Raffles meets Magnum pi. It would run and run.

Rene, I was about thirteen when Monica Rambeau debuted in Amazing Spiderman. Which was old enough to recognise that she was uber-blah.

The series was actually called 'The Black Knight' with Captain Britain as the supporting character- he was sent back to Earth by Merlin and wasn't seen for nearly two years til the classic Moore/Davis run (although Dave Thorpe was the initial author)

Have the UK produced material from Hulk Comic ever been reprinted in the US? Nightraven, especially, would be a collection I would look for..

I realize that you couldn’t be choosy as the number of solo cover images might not have been exactly abundant, but I’d just like to point out that that is probably the single ugliest image of the Scarlet Witch that I have ever seen.

I wasn't going for solo image covers, or else I'd have a LOT better covers to choose from than that one!

I was posting covers of solo mini-series/one-shots featuring these characters. Sadly, that is the only solo mini that Wanda ever got. Even sadder is that the Wasp has NEVER had her own mini-series. Never even had her own one-shot!!

I'd buy a series starring her if someone like Priest wrote it.

Hawkeye's still my primary choice for ongoing (and movie, for that matter) but anyway....

For what it's worth, I always hated Mantis with a passion. Until they revamped her in Starlord and the new GoTG. Now she's pretty cool.

I was going to suggest Tigra until I remembered she actually had an early series of her own as the Cat. Even so, under the right writer, she could be quite interesting. Ditto Firebird, another female character who's always been C-list at best, but with plenty of potential. (Especially these days! A female Hispanic with a devout Roman Catholic streak, who works as a social worker? Who may be immortal? There's gold in these hills, if you ask me.) It's a shame that no one's ever really taken her under their wing, so to speak.

Okay, my top choice for Avenger in need of an ongoing is Firebird. Just to be difficult.

You don’t have to be such a rude prick about it, J to the AAP.

You're right, that was uncalled for. Guess I was in a bad mood, sorry wwk5d!