Brian Michael Bendis

I'll name drop.

Bendis actually sent me a video of somebody reading a comic.

on these new iPhones that open up.

I mean, it's cool looking that you can literally virtually flip a page, and it looks like you are flipping a page.

Yeah.

The NBC Vanessa Hudgens superhero show with Alan Tudyk and everything.

Bendis and I were just like, I don't mean to keep dropping Brian's name, but it's the truth.

This is what happened.

He's higher on the pole than a lot of the people that are there.

I think that'd be kind of like the way they used to consult Bendis.

Yeah.

In, like, phase one.

So the characters are kind of based in ways around, like, the vibes of them in Ultimate Spider-Man.

The Bendis run, mind you.

And, um...

I only say the artists, who the fuck am I? Bendis, Bagley, Eminen, you know, Sarah Bocelli, fucking David LaFuente, fucking God, you know? And so I made a comic about, effectively, a love triangle from Mary Jane, quote unquote, perspective.

And she ends up, she has a crush on her best friend, the quote-unquote Peter Parker-esque character, who is a mad scientist who is oblivious to her love, and who then creates his own girlfriend as a Frankenstein's monster kind of thing, who is the quote-unquote Gwen Stacy.

And then they all fall in love with each other, and it's beautiful.

So yeah, I really enjoy his stuff.

Now we should say in this issue, there's not a, ton of news from either of these writers but the shows and cons section did tell fans that brian michael bendis was appearing at the fourth annual national comic book art toy and sci-fi expo the weekend of november 8th through 12th in 2002 along with sam keith and jim lee and the hulk himself lou ferigno ct so i gotta ask you were you a convention guy at any point in your life do you like to get out there with the sweaty geeky masses

Yeah, well, yeah, way early on Chicago Comic Con.

That was what it used to be called.

You sure do.

All right, well, let's get to our tally for this issue.

Brian Michael Bendis was mentioned seven times.

Jeff Johns was mentioned six times.

Sweet tooth.

so good right so like I just I'll go on like how you did Mark Twain last year I'll go on a writer so I've done like a ton of Ed Brubaker I've done a ton of Bendis a ton of Jeff Lemire and so that's how I do it and that's the stuff I'm into lately it's been more fantasy stuff I've been really into Zelda I you know getting into gaming stuff so anything similar to adventure fantasy like that um I get into.

So I've jumped around to a lot of different stuff to answer the question you asked 15 minutes ago.

That's great.

Light.

With Purple Man, in all fairness to Bendis, and this is what makes it different from Miller's Edgelord stuff, you can quite fairly say he was dialing up something that was always strongly...

there as

part of the character.

But I think it's funny, like, we've seen that kind of in comics as well.

Like, you know, obviously you're writing Midnight Spider-Man, but like, if you go back to the Ultimate Spider-Man Bendis run from like 99, it's six issues to tell the Spider-Man origin story, where when Stan Lee told it in Amazing Fantasy 15, it was like 20 pages, right? Yeah.

So, you know, it's I'm not saying it's a good thing or a bad thing.

I'm just saying it's an interesting like it's an interesting parallel between the sort of the TV world and the comic world of like, you know, I think the push happened earlier in comics to do that kind of thing.

Cause to me, like no one's going to be like 10 years from now, no one's going to be reading, you know, World's Finest March, and then Aquaman March, and then Green Lantern March, they're going to be reading the collection of Green Lantern.

See, now you say that, although that's exactly what I'm doing.

So a few years ago, I decided I wanted to reread Bendis' Daredevil run.

I started reading.