Bendis Leaves DC Comics In Terrible Shape
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- The Brian Michael Bendis era at DC Comics is finally over this week. Justice League vs Legion of Super-Heroes is his finale, and he leaves the company in far worse shape than when he arrived. Bendis destroyed many characters, none more so than the Superman family. Clark Kent, Jon Kent and Lois Lane are irreparably harmed after Bendis' Superman run. Wes explains how the damage goes much further. Brian Michael Bendis finally leaves DC Comics, but they're in really bad shape.
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It is honestly funny that practically every problem associated with Marvel and DC currently, can more or less be traced back to either Bendis or shoddy editors.
Talking shit, dude, he make amazing runs on his Marvel time: Daredevil, New Avengers, Alias, Ultimate Spider-Man...
@@VictorHugo-Al Were they really that good or were they just overrated? My opinion they were fucking overrated especially Avengers. He ruined Wanda and created an Avengers team of fan favourites instead of using established Avengers. He ruined the team in my opinion. And they were never the same. Everything Bendis touches turns to shit.
@@zemox2534 hahaha i knew it, never misses, i knew you deepshits would retroactively try to deny any recognition from Bendis' work so it can fit into your twisted little narratives. Rewind to back then and you would probably be drooling over it.
@@VictorHugo-Al All of the stuff you mentioned is from over a decade ago. Everything else since has been absolute shit.
@@jaylan7847 maybe, but still, it needs to be addressed
Who would have thought a guy who looks like Lex Luthor and writes Superman is truly his greatest enemy.
Maybe it's not just a conspiracy theory that Lex might have crossed over to this Earth to destroy his hated enemy...
It's a good joke. 😏
Bendis is the one who broke DC. Rebirth was doing great, then Bendis came in. Yeah, he's probably not fully to blame, but his entrance killed DC's last chance at being great again.
I agree with you. Bendis is not good for any series for long. Sooner or later he overdoes it and the fans get fed up with it.😒
Bendis and Metal. Two culprits.
Didio's childish bevavior and Tom King's ego are to blame too.
Tom King and Heroes in Crisis was way more to blame
@@WeirdScienceComics That I can't argue with you on. HiC was atrocious.
Bendis is an Earth Prime Galactus. He consumes entire comic worlds and leaves them dried, lifeless husks.
And for some reason he keep get hiring by comic book company. What the hell these companies see in this clown?
Lmaoooooo
@@INFERNO95 The only explanation I can think of is that Bendis exchanges sexual favors with them.
@@zarach9459 That would explain everything?
@@INFERNO95 Not all, but certainly most, another explanation is that DC executives are part of a satanic cult and take pleasure in destroying the hard work of talented creatives.
Dude was really committing character assassinations and still had the audacity to basically say "I did nothing wrong, it was the fans who couldn't appreciate the distortion I was providing".
Alright, man.
Don't ya know? Leftists are never wrong.
he also loved to scream racism when fans rejected his mary sue tokens
I mostly know his Marvel stuff. And I remember a lot of people were upset with the change he made to Wanda's character during Avengers disassembled and House of m. But I didn't have a lot of background understanding of Wanda and her history. I was able to just enjoy the story for what it was. I really liked it. So he is probably referencing negative backlash to changes like that as well and conflating that with the backlash to truly awful stories he's written at dc. But I feel like what he did at DC is different from what he did even to Wanda's history.
Yep. The same old bullshit. "Hey, what I'm doing doesn't suck, it's the fault of the people who don't like it!" Would there be a million McDonalds across the planet if they didn't listen to their customers and didn't make good...well, not exactly good, but tasty food? They would have ceased to exist decades ago if they looked at their customers the same way the comics industry looks at fans!
@@garou12 You MUST mean Naomi and his Marvel purse puppy Riri. Yeah, we don't like them because they both have no soul, neither even go through struggle or ever really journeyed to become a hero...hell, Riri might as well be one of the bad guys! Bendis and those full of themselves can only throw down the 'ist' card as a defense so many times before it becomes obvious that's all he has.
I lost faith in Bendis when he had Superman go public with his identity.
That was the first sign of trouble
I hated that so much
For me, the first sign was in his MOS mini when he had the Barry Allen Flash speaking baby talk. That's when I knew Bendis wasn't researching *anything* that had been done with the characters before and was making up whatever he wanted with zero editorial oversight. And it was all downhill from there.
Bendis is poison. He never researched anything, he just looked at pictures of the characters, and made up stuff based on what he thought they were about.
He's a major reason they are in the shape they're in! But that's still editorial's fault 100%. He hasn't been a big name in a long time but DC was acting like anyone actually cared
DC was acting like Bendis was the second coming of Jack Kirby when they were advertising Bendis' arrival.
@@fattiger6957 I wonder how much they blew on that marketing campaign?
Shit rolls downhill. DC took a big dump on everyone by not reining in Bendis' ego. How many writers in their stable are just doing what they want too, and to hell with the fans, if it wasn't for the massive indifference and maybe fear of the editors and execs on high?
A character being written by Bendis or Tom King is like a man being married to a Kardashian. They might survive it, but there's no way they don't end up permanently damaged.
😂 😂 LOL! That's a dame good analogy.
Bendis was such a disappointment, what he did to John is just unforgivable.
Jon Kent had a ton of potential during Tomasi's run. He was a character who could have been huge, going into the future for DC. Then Bendis came in and idiotically aged him up and that hack, Tom Taylor, fulfilled a groomer's fantasy by making Jon gay.
@@fattiger6957 No doubt it. From 2016-2018 Jon was DC hottest new character. The fandom was in love with him. This is what happens when incompetent fools are in charge.
@@fattiger6957 Hopefully next writer will retcon it & undo Bendis;s damage
@@benyaakov6453 DC and marvel are not in the habit of returning gay characters back to straight. Once they go gay/bi it's permanent.
@@fattiger6957 I honestly think the reason Bendis aged him up was so they could do literally do this. If you look at Bendis recent work with Marvel hes obsessed with kids and their "relationships".
I'm not mad at Bendis, my bank account quite likes him for saving me all this money not buying his books after suffering through his talking head phase with his Xmen run.
@Cognitive Dissonance I quit 9 months ago
Jesus, yes. Age of Ultron was an overhyped mess, Civil War 2 was garbage, AvX basically ruined a decent idea (not all on Bendis, I know, but he did it no favors), and the disrespect he showed over the years to characters like Cyclops, Namor, and even Wolverine just made my stomach churn. I never even bothered with his DC stuff.
Yup, i now barely collect anything thanks to him and i haven't gone back really since bc i don't want ton know all the harm he did between his new run and the current stuff
You are correct about DC being insane for leaving Bendis active for so long and the destruction of the company. Most other companies would quickly pull products when they notice sales are tanking.
Nah the DiDio strategy was to do the exact opposite.
The original plan was Hickman would come over, but Johns would not let him touch JSA. Then DC got Bendis, Marvel invited Hickman back to work on X-men. It’s a shame especially considering Hickman was a massive DC fan that teen titans and legions of superheroes were his favorites when he was kid.
That is a shame. I'm a big fan of Geoff's, but he was barely even around at the time and should've kept his mouth shut. It'd been a different story if he was around full time and had immediate plans for the JSA. But he wasn't.
Damn. Would of loved to see Hickman on Teen Titans. I miss the Teen Titans and JSA
@@nunobarbosa3981 Hickman would have been a good fit for JSA. If only Geoff wasn't so selfish.
@@zemox2534 Hickman ignores characterization/personality. It makes sense Geoff Johns wouldn't want characters he loved Hickmanized.
I still think the basic premise for Hickman's X-Men run was likely his repurposed Legion submission that was rejected, just tweaked to fit the X-Men better.
"Bendis is coming" was a bad omen indeed.
Bendis always had flaws (ignoring what came before, characterizations of some characters, and going overboard with dialogue, decompression) but I used to really enjoy his work. Ultimate Spider man (and other work in the Ultimate universe), Daredevil, Alias, New Avengers (up to Siege), Secret War were all comics I really liked and shaped my taste. Sometime after 2011 he really fell off and his worst traits got much worse culminating in his work at DC. it's such a shame and he can't seem to accept his work isn't loved like it once was, he lost touch with his fans and what they enjoyed. It's really a shame how he's tarnished his legacy, but he did it to himself. Great video Wes!
New Avengers is trash.Wolverine in the team never makes any sense.I hate Bendis in MArvel.
I loved the tweenaged Jon. Those stories with Superman as dad were really special. Such a loss.
I loved Super Sons and I think that opinion is universally shared with DC readers. I have no friggen idea why the hell DC allowed Bendis ruined what could have been a great character to introduce kids into comics.
The issue where Clark takes him to show American heroes was beautiful.
A standout for me was "Last Days" in #40,+41. Dad faces a moral challenge reconciling 1. his desire to save a doomed planet with 2. his desire to respect their wishes to die... all while his son observes.
Yeah, super sons was brilliant, then Bendis shat on him, shat on Jor El and shat all over the title in general.
@@sudarshaniyer6201 indeed super sons was freaking awesome
When they were in negotiations DiDio offered him Justice League, and Bendis said no. He demanded, not only Superman, but Action as well. So Dumb Dan agreed and told Tomasi and Jurgens to take a hike. At the time Tomasi and Jurgens were enjoying one of the best 1-2 punch runs in Superman and Action history. And that's not even considering Super Sons, which by itself, was reaching iconic status. Another demand by that bald weasel was to kill it because it didn't fit into his narrative for Jon.
As much as Bendis is to blame (and he is), DiDio is the real villain and idiot here. Every time DC was white hot, during his time there, he just had to go and piss on it because the success wasn't being done his way, by "his vision." Which by the way ALWAYS sucked. The man's a talentless fraud and BMB isn't too far behind him. F 'em both.
That period was the best Superman era for 10 years. Tomasi and Jugens really gave the character a shot in the arm he needed.
IMO Didio is to blame for all the problems DC is having. I am certain his "youth movement" attitude is what led to DC bringing in all the no talent, political activist, hack "creators" who brought DC to it's current sorry state. Jim Lee certainly is useless now, but it was Didio that started everything.
@@fattiger6957 Exactly and what's really baffling is DCs sales were great at the time. He's such an incompetent buffoon. But the good news is he and Bendis are history now. Bad news, they're not being replaced with quality.
@@fattiger6957 Highrer ups at DC were too blane as well. They should have fired Didio sooner rather than later.
Maybe a Freudian slip, but I always seem to read DiDio as Dildo.
Dan Jurgens saved DC from the New 52 Superman, something Geoff Johns couldn't even do. Getting rid of the worst Superman version ever and going back to pre-New 52 Superman (including his uniform) was a genius move. People LIKED Lois and Clark married and giving them a son made that relationship even better. Then Bendis.....
It's the same thing he did at Marvel. That is why so many Marvel readers were happy to see him leave. I hope C.B. Cebulski doesn't bring him back to Marvel.
Ivan Reis being the artist was the reason I bought Bendis on Man of Steel and it was because of Bendis that I didn't buy anymore after that.
In a terrible shape is an understatement
No doubt
I'm not a writer, but how can one person write so much and expect to put out good work? That's a ridiculous output for one writer and it really makes a lot of sense that his work is trash. He's gotta be out of ideas at this point and "first drafting" everything that he submits. There's no time for self-editing if you're shitting out this much crap every month.
I like your metaphor. When a writer shits out this much crap, there’s no time to polish the turds 😂
@@CayoHern So that's $25,000 a book right? Wow, just wow.
Bendis the destroyer was the biggest villain in the DC universe
DiDio. None of this happens without DiDio.
The argument that comic fans don't like change is crap. During DC Comics Rebirth, Superman's history was merged with the best elements of the pre-crisis, post crisis, and new 52 version of the character. He also had a ten year old son. Fans liked these changes to the character.
Bendis is the reason I will never have a complete collection of the LSH.
I started getting into old-school LoSH when he happened to be on the title, quickly figured out I had no interest in reading his stuff, and just kept buying old back issues. No regrets
Bendis coming to DC is the wrong mistake ever made
It is the cherry on top of the shit decisions made by the DiDiot.
Bendis Luthor maybe gone but the damage is done that he's caused to DC Comics.
Oh my God , you are totally right, he does look like Luthor 😮
@@mohammadbashammakh Well, he used to. When he was younger. Right now, he looks like the original version of Ultra- Humanite.
I really hate Bendy. Him, Millar and everyone else responsible for the Ultimates and other deconstruction trope comics of the 2000s. It was supposed to feel edgy and realistic but looking back on it now it feels cringy and stupid. The only good thing we got out of it was a fragile skeleton that would make up the first 4 phases of the MCU.
When Bendy moved to DC I knew this would happen. He is no writer but a hack who can only tear things down and twist them into something ugly and stupid.
Honestly I want Bendy to write an Original comic book on his own and see how many people would actually like his work on his own without any popular brand or character behind it. I'm wondering how long it would actually last.
Yep I watched Razorfist's vid on Eric July and he told a bit about seeing Bendis at a con and people would give him their art and Bendis would shred it to pieces. Razorfist then showed Bendis' indie work and the art ( while not the worst) was subpar. But yeah from what I see Bendis is a hack
I remember a moment, a few years ago, were I was REALLY into DC and it was right after Rebirth: Superman/Man of Steel, Super Sons, Tom King's Batman seemed to be going somewhere interesting, I was really exited, then they announced Bendis and the 100th year anniversary volume for Superman: "A 100 year anniversary edition, cool!", I was goin to buy it physical but decided to check it out digitally first, it was...weird the stories were fine, but the last one was Bendis introducing his white Doomsday with an axe thing that I can't remember his name, then Tom King's fiasco wedding happened and Jon Kent was character assassinated and I was out.
In around 6 months time I went from paying costumer to completely losing interest in the medium, I think my only contact with comics since then has been watching TH-cam videos as those are far more entertaining these days, I hope they found a new fan-base because I've heard the same stories from my friends, whoever mainstream comic books are targeted at these days it certainly isn't me anymore.
80th Anniversary. 2038 will be Supes Centennial. But I'm right there with everything you said.
@@jaylucien669 or the 1000th issue something like that, I remember being a celebration issue with anniversary stories for the character and that weird Bendis villain in the very last one completely clashing with the rest of the issue
Bendis’ Dissembled was a trolling laugh fest. In one issue, the Vision drove the Quinjet through Avengers mansion, Scott Lang died, and Hawkeye really believed committing Suicide with a jet pack would have saved the Avengers from an invasion sized Star ship. When Bendis wasn’t busy writing provocative scenes for shock factor, he made almost every character, a douche bag for no reason. Having said that, he leaves super rich because he owes the rights to Miles Morales, Riri Williams, and Naomi.
Yeah, he's been doing this for decades.
DC should have escorted him right out the door head first.
Uncle Phil’s style
Too late. The damage is done. I pity the company that will hire him.
Years waiting for a Legion book... for that boring overwritten bland crap? Not even the fantastic art of Ryan Sook could salvage that snooze fest. Same with his Superman. Ivan Reis tried his best.
And i dont want to talk about his JLA.
Good riddance. Who's next? Lets clean the house.
Gotta get rid of Tom Taylor. I don't know why DC is treating him like a superstar writer when he's never been anything more than mediocre. They should have fired him during his garbage run on the terrible Earth 2 book.
This is a reminder that Superman will become Public Domain in about 12 Years.
Why do I bring this up? Ohh...No reason.
Warners will figure out a way to keep the trademark.
I am glad brian michael bendis is leaving dc comics because he's ruined everything for a lot of characters like Superman the justice league and legion of superheroes because he's ruined everything and aging up my boy Jonathan Samuel Kent superboy was such a horrible idea that it drives me crazy that nobody wants to undo this horrible idea and give us back my boy Jonathan Samuel Kent superboy back to his little 10 year old self.
Bendis always was a shitty writer.I know that him would be cause damage in DC already.
@@EvandroACruz even though technically speaking he wrote the best Spider-Man comic that was ultimate Spider-Man.
@@TevyaSmolka I don't think so.Ultimate Spider-Man is overrated like hell.
@@EvandroACruz personally I liked his ultimate Spider-man because that run actually got me into comics surprisingly.
@@TevyaSmolka I hate Peter personality in the Ultimate universe.Gwen too.
What this man did to Johnathan Kent is unforgivable. I'm still salty af over the demise of the super sons. The potential of that series with its character growth for Johnathan, Damien, conner, all the Robin's, and the Kent family as a whole.
They should start an ad campaign with just bold letters stating "Bendis is leaving!".
You are right Wes, Bendis dragged that Event Leviathan out and then it had no pay off! I honestly don't know if/how it ended and I read it. That was the end of the Rebirth era in my mind...and the beginning of hell for DC fans.
Even Leviathan is where I jumped off. I own one or two issues but never read them. Between him and Tom King I just couldn't take it anymore. Vendetti's Hawkman was the last great DC book from that time. Silly Grant Morrisons silly GL run was another meh title from those days. Everything was starting to fall apart, which of course, it did.
Does DC now Stand for "Dead Comics"?
Yes they are
I told a friend of mine who is the biggest DC fan while I was a Marvel fan mainly- I told him I was glad to see Bendis go to DC so he could screw up Batman and Superman like he screwed up Marvel...I was joking of course but Bendis proved my words to be prophetic...
I can't believe they really thought it was a good idea to hire Bendis. He lost his touch a long time ago.
One of the things that always frustrates me is when people ask if Bendis has changed. I recommend going back and trying to read through Secret Invasion, Siege or the latter half of his Avengers run. The same problems are there: snail like pacing, endless snarky dialogue, hastily thought out endings, all the characters speaking the same way. I remember when Secret Invasion came out and actual reviewers commented that the plot hadn’t moved in 3 issues.
I think that what is happening is that time is catching up to Bendis. Yes, the early issues of Ultimate Spider-Man are great, Daredevil is solid if way too talky. But, I think people will eventually equate Brian Bendis as one of artistic dead ends of the industry.😊
You absolutely nailed all the things I disliked about his work. Yes, there's some creative ideas in his head, but the way he translates them to paper is so unorganized and weak. And his interpretations of classic Marvel characters was, well, let's just say he didn't understand them very well.
There were so many great ideas, I wish Bendis wasn't the only one writing these big Avengers stories.
@@Ravenscroft82I've said this as an adage, he's an idea man, not a writer
Wes venting about Bendis really did help Wes. I swear some of Wes's grey hair started going away. :P
Totally agree with your take on Bendis. Between him and the 82 monthly Batman titles, DC is going to need to take a minute to dig out of the mess.
I'm so happy that BMB is gone from DC good riddance hopefully the other bad writers will be gone from DC soon.
Is he sure there's no other characters he wants to ruin on the way out?
Bendis Daredevil is my #2 favorite run after Frank Miller and Ultimate Spiderman is probably top 5 Spiderman somewhere after Conway and Micheline. But Bendis started to decline rapidly around 2009. It's incredible that DC thought bringing Bendis in 10 years into the collapse of his writing and paying him huge sums of money was a good idea. Bendis is coming - Galactus is coming to eat up the DC comics line.
Bendis looks like Lex Luthor.
That he does, can’t believe I never noticed that before
Chubby Lex Luthor at that.
Maybe early post-crisis, chubby Lex, but not modern Lex. Modern Lex is supposed to be the epitome of human accomplishment who keeps his mind and body in perfect condition.
Bendis has been washed ever since his finale run on Miles Morales came to an end.
Bendis is the Ken Penders of Archie with Sonic comics
How about a writers and editors pledge? Maybe it should start with
“Do no harm”….
Is is bird, is it a plane, no, Bendis is finally G-G-GOING!
Bye bye Bendis. Don’t come back.
Amen to that
I felt that the whole ( bendis is coming) promos were weird, they never did them with Frank miller, they never did them with Marv wolfman, they never did them with any writers in the history of DC , so why would they do it with the guy who ruined marvel ( unless he was on their payroll to ruin the competition, I don’t see any reason)
The only other time they did was with Kirby back in the day. It's pretty ridiculous that they gave Bendis the same fanfare as one of the greatest creators in comic history.
@@fattiger6957 Yeah, they did it with Kirby, but not nearly to the extent they did with Bendis.
Maybe DC did the whole ( bendis is coming) as a cry for help?
It pretty much showed they were in a self destructive pattern, and were seeking intervention. 😂
@@myconiusmaximus1022 a valid point with truth in it
You don’t see a problem when the rock falls down a hill. When it rolls into a landslide you see it.
Tomasi made me actually love Superman like I never had before. Loved his run, loved Jon, loved supersons then Bendis came and ruined everything. Ruined the run, ruined Jon. When I saw him aged up it literally broke my heart and I never read another issue
*BENDIS IS LEAVING!*
GOOD RIDDANCE
AMEN.
PLEASE let the door hit ya on your ass on the way out.
It feels like Bendis was the turning point where it all started going wrong
Bendis finally leaves DC Comics? It's about friggin' time!!
Can he please take Tom King with him?
They can go work at DiDios new company. What could possibly go wrong?
@@jaylucien669 The whole lot of them get aboard the S. S. Minnow for a 3-hour tour. 😂
@@myconiusmaximus1022 😂
I have observed that there are two ways to write a group book. The first is to have the villain show up and the group gathers to defeat said villain and along the way there is some fun or dramatic comments made between the heroes. This works best for single or two-part stories but not for a year-long or multi-year run of one story. The second is to take a selection of members, 2-5, and run a simple sub-plot on each of those characters that might tie into the main story but can also be used as stand-alone stories involving a group member. Then when done with that main story, switch those sub-plots to the next 2-5 characters and repeat the formula. This can be done for small or long stories. Mr. Bendis violated both of these writing styles. As a fan of the LSH for 40 years, I declare him its worst writer. I further declare that his LSH is not canon and can safely be ignored.
Legion fans have it rough. From what I understand, the Five Years Later arc started off great, but apparently petered out along the way, and then the books became outright unreadable. Have there been any good runs since then (aside from Abnett & Lanning which I've heard was pretty good)?
@@r0w5tortion84 Off the top of my head the last set I enjoyed was the 6-part Action Comics story reuniting the LSH & Superman. It was Geoff Johns or Mark Waid. This led into a new series that had Mon-El become a Green Lantern. The last great LSH story was the Legion 3 Crisis story featuring the LSH of three universes against a ton of villains and the rebirth of Impulse and Connor Kent. My biggest annoyance is that several writers keep changing the mythos of Superman's involvement in the LSH. At the end of Doomsday Clock, they had been brought them back and Superman knew them. Then Bendis Superman run had begun and negated that entire plot and Superman didn't know them, but he allowed them to take his son into the future. I did not care for the Mark Waid Earth-Prime version of the LSH.
Bendis and King destroyed DC. It’s so blatantly obvious that they were allowed to do whatever they wanted and were not edited at all. Especially when you factor in how good Rebirth was and started off. I’m not sure what they were thinking when they decided to go with Bendis and King’s vision of DC instead of Geoff Johns’ when they sabotaged Doomsday Clock. People were loving the overall Rebirth story and it started off so damn good. They haven’t been able to recover. They need someone to take over who has balls and isn’t afraid to make things clear to the writers and tell them no when they want to do things like age up Jon or turn Wally into a murderer. The things happening now is obviously some stupid initiative to be diverse and inclusive. But it started with Bendis.
What did they do to sabotage Doomsday Clock?
@@DavidMartinez-ce3lp Replacing the Original Legion with the Bendis Legion as shown in their first appearance in the final issue of Doomsday Clock.
Bendis is a cancer for the industry for more than 20 years.Make irreparable damage in the big 2 with your boring dialogues,characters mischaracterization and total desrespect with cronology.This guy needs stay away from mainstream comics forever.
As long as he leaves, everything is going to be better.
How can anyone even hire the worst writer in comics history is always beyond me
At least you have Josh Williamson (Dark Crisis not withstanding 😑😖) to mostly pick up pieces and glue them back together into something halfway decent
I always thought Bendis had a deeper voice, like John Bernthal. Turns out he sounds more like Pee Wee Herman.
Great job Wes as usual.
Good riddance, he ruined marvel, he ruined DC , maybe next he’ll try to ruin wwe
They were ruined a long time ago.
@@jaylucien669 by him
I always chuckle when he kept posting pics of stacks of superman books. Saying he was doing research😅 guess he didn't read those books too well
He's such a tool.
Unfortunately Pepper ridge farm doesn't WANT to remember Bendis run on DC !
He should never have been put anywhere near Superman to begin with, the relationship between Clark and his son is the reason I got into Superman Rebirth in the first place. He decides to take a massive dump on that, age up Jon for no reason, have him pal around with the Legion for a while and then have him take over as Superman for reasons that I still don't understand like Superman has to leave ok why?!!
Y'all blame Bendis. I blame DC. Who's worse, the fool or the fool who hired him?
The DiDio, so you're right. Bendis deserves his share of the blame, but none of this happens without Dan DiDio
"We're the only non-Batman top ten book." Like you, Wes, I seriously doubt that Justice League vs Legion was ever a top ten book. Even if you only count DC books. CBR estimates that there were 13 DC books ahead of the first issue during its release month, including Dark Knights of Steel and DC vs Vampires. And that was its high water mark.
Bendis has been a blight on the big two since he started. He ruined my favorite character Iron man and now they let him destroy Superman. Just pathetic.
Superman rebirth was so good. It was like triangle era Superman good. He crapped all over it.
Event Leviathan is honestly the most forgettable DC event in the last 10 years. Who even remembers it coming out?
All of the ill intent and distain towards fans and classic hero characteristics began with Bendus and the editorial especially Diddio for bringing him in without research of his current status.
Superman is damaged, Jon is damaged, the Legion of Superheroes are damaged, Justice League is damaged and due to the other bad writers going head and ass first into only ideological politics and changing established characters for CNN reports an social media headlines.
Now their in a colossal reboot, shuffling around bad writers thinking the old fans will return for them to abuse the fandom as a whole because they label fans bigots rather the reflect on how they screwed up there own stories for a soapbox.
They can reflect on these actions,but they choose not to.
To be fair, Bendis did write a pretty decent Batman story for those Walmart giants. It's was silly, but fun. I don't know if it would qualify as memorable, but it is notable for not being terrible.
Haven't read it, but I would possibly say solid evocation of Batman Odyssey
Ya know, I was relieved when Bendis left Marvel but I felt sorry for DC. 'Bendis is coming' was a threat. Now I'm worried that he'll return to Marvel... But I would've felt more worried if Marvel wasn't a complete dumpsterfire allready XD.
Now I have not read Naomi but if she's more powerful than Superman and has no weakness at all then thats a cardinal sin. The more powerful you make a character the more weakness' they gotta have. Supes got cryptonite and magic to eff up his day. Venom have sound and fire (or used to have at least) not mess him up. There's gotta be something there to make good stories.
A comicbook writer needs take sabbatical leaves every so often. There's not many writers that can sit 30 years in a row and come up with bangers. Well, Stephen King can but he has the privilige of being able to write any damn thing his wants ya know. Superhero comics aren't that flexible. I dunno where I'm going with this thought other than that Bendis should have taken a break many years ago.
BTW, I've never seen an artist give a clearer middle finger to a writer than JRJR did to Bendis with the last comics he drew at DC.
The good news for you is he demands a lot of money and I'm not sure Disney would be willing to accommodate. Comics are not a high priority for them.
@digifalc0087 Jupp. I know JRJR's art have degraded the last few years but man... I dont think he spent more than 10 minutes on those pages.
tom kings DC work is like citizen Kane compared to anything bends wrote
The best anyone can hope for is a complete retcon and immediate TRASHING of ALL Bendis stories and character changes had a hand in out of existence. Jon Kent de-Aged to where Tomasi had him.
Has DC started putting two-page spread advertisements saying "Bendis has left DC" yet?
With Superman having a "D'oh!" look on his face?
Bendis the last 10+ odd years is PURE Edge Lord trash writer.
637 That LISP is a give away,Bendis BENDS.
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I actually liked Bendis's Superman, but I hated how he aged up Jon. Then Tom Taylor had to go and make things worse.
The big takeaway here is that he *is* gone.
The flipside of that good news is which low price activist hack are they going to replace him with....
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I wonder if Michael Bendis was still getting paid by Marvel on the down low to help damage some of the characters and stores in the DC comics Universe
Used to be a big fan of Bendis, but what he did with Ultimate Spider-Man ruined his name with me.
The real sad thing about Naomi was that it actually got a show! That's a major push for a character. I'm thinking because marvel was pushing ms marvel, dc thought they had something?
Regardless, as soon as it was announced he was coming to DC, I knew my new favorite character, Jon Kent, was doomed. Super sons was easily the best series and I think a young Jon was likeable. His interaction with Damian was perfect. I don't get how they were trying to push Grayson. Anyway before I start ranting on how they destroyed him, I'll trace everything to bendis and move along.
Bloody Stupid Bendis was doing miserable on his books when he left Marvel. He obliterated every book he worked on at DC. Everything he did to Superman was a crime.
Back then the SuperSons was one of the most popular things they had....they had the movie in Process, it only came out cause those things take time....why the hell would they let him age John up?
Aging up Jon Kent was disastrous to the character. Such a mess.
Sadly it's way too late for this to have any positive impact. He should have never been hired in the first place. And certainly never been given free reign to do whatever he pleased.
The Super Sons run is such an underrated series!
Thanks Bendis!
Now, GTFO and never come back! BENDIS IS LEAVING!!!
May we never see him again
Looks like Geoff Johns is now in charge of Legion so I would guess that Geoff Johns will bring back the retroboot Legion soon.
Unbelievable how he will never admit to the reality of bad sales, so there’s no point in trying to get him to see that.
I’m just glad he’s gone now, hopefully in time the corrections necessary to restore the brand can happen.
Man, Jon Kent. That sh*t still hurts.
He did one Batman story (6 issues maybe) that I found actually entertaining.
A fake Spawnwave bot on a comics channel. Wrong geek genre, dummy 😂
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The only DC book that Bendis released that I actually liked was Batman: Universe (the Walmart Batman book).
Bendis is leaving!
Too little, too late. The damage is already done.
It’s because of Brian Michael Bendis that Superman, the Justice League, and the Legion of Superheroes became unreadable and completely failed. It was a mistake to bring him to DC in the first place. It’s because of Brian Michael Bendis that DC is dead. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
BMB doesn't even seem to read other people's comics or pay attention to what others have written. He thinks Rogol Zarr is his.original idea, even though it was done before by J. Michael Strazynski in Superman Earth-1. He thinks reveal Clark's secret identity was his original idea, even though that exact same story was already done 5 years earlier.