This line has spawned the graphic novels Goldfish, Fire, Jinx, Torso (with Marc Andreyko), and Total Sell Out. Though he started as a writer and artist of independent noir fiction series, he shot to stardom as a writer of Marvel Comics' superhero books, particularly Ultimate Spider-Man.īendis first entered the comic world with the 'Jinx' line of crime comics in 1995. For over eight years Bendis’s books have consistently sat in the top five best sellers on the nationwide comic and graphic novel sales charts. He has won critical acclaim (including five Eisner Awards) and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics.

Part of that, he reasoned, is just the creative process and the fact that he is his own harshest critic, but also, the fact that the filmmakers managed to crack the code of what makes Miles work has been satisfying to watch.A comic book writer and erstwhile artist. Now that Bendis is about a year removed from telling his final Spider-Man story - he signed an exclusive deal with DC and took over the Superman titles last April - he told us that the experience of watching somebody else tell stories with Miles has been even more rewarding than the years of stories he got to tell within the world of Ultimate Spider-Man and its successors. Then you get to the movies and I must say that when you're surprised by the emotions of your work, and then years later another filmmaker attaches themselves to that emotion because they feel it too - it feels like an our success from their ability to grow that feeling, to make it better, to make it more universal, it's a very unique experience, and one I'm clearly having a hard time articulating. So, then discovering Dan's off in Spider-verse, oh there's your event. But that was just the story of Peter and Miles. The characters are literally forcing the story into an emotional place.' So, I think it's that stuff that really inspired all of us from the get go.

It was just like, 'wow, this is really getting deep.

'It got real emotional, like we were going through some stuff. 'Sometimes, projects surprise you - and the first Spider Men mini-series really surprised us,' Bendis told during a recent interview in support of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

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