Marvel Comics

Kurt Busiek and George Pérez's Avengers run is the definitive modern-era Avengers series — a deeply character-focused, mythology-respectful, beautifully drawn restoration of the team's greatness following the disastrous Crossing and Heroes Reborn period. Their opening Morgan le Fay storyline reset the team's direction with immediate clarity, and Busiek spent the next four years demonstrating that the Avengers format at its best was about character ensembles, earned emotional moments, and threats that were genuinely worthy of the assembled heroes.