I think he was referring to the roster during Brian Wood's run on X-Men from about 5 years ago. It was an all-female team (Storm , Kitty, Psylocke, Rachel, Jubilee, M and, initially, Rogue).

There was the all-female Avengers team of the Liberators, in a "women's lib" storyline; but, it wasn't sustained.

Femforce is an all-female team; but, through a very male lens. Bill Black definitely wasn't aiming that at a female audience.

A million years ago, a frequent letter col writer named Bob Rodi (now an author) floated his idea to team Hawkgirl, Batgirl, Wonder Woman, Supergirl, and a couple of other female heroes as the Amazon Brigade. (Maybe it was in a JLA letters page?)

I've enjoyed some teams; but, it depends greatly on the storytellers. I loved the JLA, as a kid, especially the fact that they called each other by their real first names, in private. They were colleagues and friends. In the best FF stories, they are a family and some of the best stories have the playful bickering of Ben and Johnny. It always worked better, for me, when it seemed like they were just poking fun at each other, rather than deliberately trying to hurt each other, physically or emotionally.

The Avengers depended greatly on the line-up and creators. I liked the Engelhart run, as Beast brought more of a sense of fun, while george Perez added the visual dynamics. Also, there were a lot of good foes in the Perez era, from Englehart to Shooter. The Byrne run, with Wundagore and all, was also quite good.

I've always enjoyed the Defenders, as they were kind of the lovable misfits of the MU, especially in the hands of Gerber and those that followed, like David Anthony Kraft and Jm DeMatteis.

New Teen Titans was also like a family, mixed with a group of close friends.

X-Men is one that enjoyed at different stages; but, less so when they became the focus of Marvel editorial. I liked it better when their adventures were kept more on the smaller scale and more in their own realm, with the occasional bigger story.

New Warriors I pretty much ignored. I looked at the first issue and it didn't grab me and I snorted at a skateboard-riding vigilante. I never read their adventures after; but, then again, I was reading very little Marvel in that era.

The Invaders and the All-Star Squadron were great favorites, due to the use of wartime history, as well as the pulpier Golden Age villains.

Outside of the Big Two, I was a sucker for the THUNDER Agents, as a concept, the Mighty Crusaders, in principle, though neither was as great in the execution. The Hero Alliance was an interesting one, for character interplay and a team beyond the fights and the Justice Machine was an interesting sci-fi/dystopian twist on the JLA and Avengers. It lacked in execution, as well. DNAgents was a satisfying book, with characters really finding their way. It takes the Teen Titan concept into more adolescent angst territory. Elementals was much the same way, though a bit more action-oriented.

I've heard that Night Thrasher was created by Christopher Priest as a joke when the upper management wanted "hip new heroes for the 90's"


Same, Cap always spurred on me a love and keen interest in older heroes. I was lucky to get some random issues of Invaders in my Mycomicshop Captain America grab-bag that I got for my birthday


I liked the silver age Mighty Crusaders because they just came off as a total pot-shot towards both Marvel and DC, shame that they didn't stick around longer, but that's Archie for you. If it isn't some dopey teen perpetually stuck in the 50's or a Blue Hedgehog, it won't sell

Found both DNA Agents and the Elementals to be interesting conceptually, but not in execution. Comico later had the Elementals go far off into the deep end into the "adult comic book market", that's all I'll say. It's about as abhorrent and tasteless as it sounds

I only count the Elementals in the hands of Bill Willingham.  Anything from the Andrew Rev era of Comico is Bizarro World Comico.

That's a lot like the Adventure Comics Legion stories where the girls revolt! And once it was the super-pets revolting! The things they will put on covers to get those dimes! We're so glad that John Lennon came along just about then to end all war, even of the sexes!