Dan Slott is supposed to be taking over Mighty Avengers, while Bendis keeps the "new" Avengers, and also takes up writing a new title called "Dark Avengers":
Bendis said he's moving on to a new series called Dark Avengers with art by Mike Deodato. "It's very, very dark," he said.Oh, that's just what we need, more darkness. Even for the Marvel Universe, darkness is get
By Teresa Jusino
In getting with the New York Comic Con spirit, I attended a Brian Michael Bendis (of Ultimate Spider-Man, The New Avengers, and Secret Invasion fame) signing at Jim Hanley’s Universe in Manhattan. Jeph Loeb and Ed Brubaker (Fallen Son and Captain America, respectively) also stopped by to sign things…it promised to be a great event!
The line was enormous, and when we were told that the signers would only be there for an hour, I worried that my time with Bendis would be extremely limited. While I’d never been to a comic book signing before, I’ve been to plenty of book signings, and the worst ones are the ones where they just shove your book under the author’s nose, they barely look at you as they sign it, then you get shoved on your way without s
And while we're on the subject of Avengers and Brian Bendis, let's also take a look at some fluff-coating that the MSM has been doing in their coverage of Secret Invasion. I see that the Pennsylvania Express-Times has taken to fawning a bit over Bendis, at the expense of past writers who did much better:
The Skrulls were among the initial villains of the Marvel universe, first appearing in "The
I tried to have an open mind. I tried to ignore Bendis photo-referencing himself. I tried to ignore the picture of Charlize Theron made up hispanic. I really, really, really did try. I sat through the True Romance scenes, I sat through the Pulp Fiction scenes. I sat through the first Good, the Bad and the Ugly reference… I even sat through Jinx's diary (the most ludicrous and mildly offensive female first person I've sat through in a long time). But once Bendis decided to remake The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, it was time to go.
He ought to be sued for plagiarism. In fact, Tarantino ought to sue him too (I was willing to let the flagrant Tarantino ripping go, but no more). Jinx is, almost singularly, the most unimaginative independent comic book I've ever tried reading. It's almost like Bendis made up a list of all the sure-fire hipster hits and ran through them one by one. The funniest thing about Jinx is the reputation. It's like… I don't know. If people ra
Bendis goes on a special signing tour in Washington state, and the MSM unsurprisingly provides him with sugary press coverage:
The comic-book world has been like Never Never Land for Brian Michael Bendis. The top writer in the country, Bendis has not gone without having multiple titles on the top-10 sales lists for years. He has fans everywhere. And the popularity of his work has landed him TV,
What is so great about Bendis anyway? This hugely overrated writer with an inexplicable following based on his name alone may have first begun his career as a novelist, but certainly came to prominence following his work on Powers for Image Comics. While he may have come up with some effective women in the books he’s written, he’s still pulled some sexist acts, which I’ll try to highlight below. In Avengers: Disassembled, we have the notorious case of Scarlet Witch going insane because she failed to have children, a storyline based on one of John Byrne’s worst works from 1990. She even sends the She-Hulk berserk during this. The worst part is how it invokes the stereotype of women being unable to cope with power. Another one of the worst things about Disassembled was how it regurgitated the Hank Pym as abuser stigma: another character, possibly Tony Stark, asks Hank, “don’t you got a wife to beat?” It’s as offensive to Janet as it is to Hank, who does not deserve th
The Pennsylvania Express-Times runs an article about the upcoming WizardWorld tour on June 15 in Philadelphia, but the problem is that it sugarcoats all surrounding Brian Michael Bendis, and when he tells them in here that"We're going to pop some big news."I can only feel like yawning. At the same time, his popularity is startling as it's inexplicable. Will he eventually peter out in popularity? I just don't know.
After reading this synopsis of New Avengers #26, I'm hard-pressed to figure out: what's so great about Brian Michael Bendis? The story sounds insulting to the intellect.
That's another reason why a writer who truly understands what it is that makes the Earth's Mightiest Heroes is sorely needed, and Bendis needs to be taken off the title. Clearly, he is overrated.
Reason #45,928 of Why I Have Been Tapering Off in My Comic Book Reading: Luke Cage kicks Elektra Natchios in the crotch, then claims that Matt Murdock told him to do it.You know, that kind of thing was once thought of as incredibly stupid. Now, apparently, this sort of thing is funny enough to get into a comic book.Go figure.(If you're wondering where the Ice Pirates reference is about, near the end of the movie, one robot kicks another robot in the crotch. Which, when you think about it, why?!?!? Of course, if you're actually watching Ice Pirates, then thinking really doesn't enter into the equation, does it?)technorati tags: comics, Bendis, wtf, Marvel
Or something like that. I discover this decidedly overrated writer doing interviews for Wizard magazine, the current one being with Tom Brevoort. But really, what's the use? It's apparent that with a "winning" combination like this, there won't be any real insight or objectivity to be found in here.
