Where's the "vote often" option? I need to be able to vote more than once to express my dislike.
Okay, MWoF, because you asked -
First off, there is no such thing as a universally popular comic. There are plenty of people who strongly dislike ULTIMATES and can trot out any number of good reasons why.
I liked both POWERS and (most of) ALIAS, where Bendis was writing original characters. The setup on both books was perfect for him - no more than a main character or two, lots of time to examine the character, stories that could wander around and take the time to get where they were going. The things that drive me nuts in the rest of his work are there - characters who talk right over the top of each other, characters who sound exactly alike, lots of exact repeat panels, strange and rambling pacing, lots of stuttering pauses passing for "realistic" dialog - but in POWERS it works. In NEW AVENGERS it doesn't, and he's writing a large team superhero comic with established characters out of the same bag of tricks he wrote a 2 person cop noir drama from - which is why NEW AVENGERS reads like a series of vaguely connected MARVEL TEAM-UPS to me.
I don't mind "talky," dialog-heavy comics - in fact I LIKE them. I don't read comics for the fight scenes, I tend to flip through them rather quickly because I find them boring, much like football. But too many of Bendis' conversations are elliptical - they don't actually GO anywhere, and the dialog is too expository, telling me the plot directly. I also find Bendis' of humor aimed a bit too much at about the 14 year-old age level. That's fine in USM, where Peter is young, but it's not appropriate in NEW AVENGERS, and, worse, it's not funny.