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All that said, I was very impressed with an issue of Daredevil where Bendis wrote a long and credible courtroom scene, one better than any previous courtroom scene in Daredevil. And I say this as somebody who was a fan of Daredevil even in the pre-Frank Miller years. That Bendis courtroom scene may have lacked action or even suspense, but it felt very authentic.
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- Superman-analogue "Olympus" dies in a sketchy apartment, naked; people saw a flash of light when he died
- Woman comes by for a booty call, finds out he's dead, tells detectives that she slept with him sometimes
- Olympus's wife commits suicide because of scandal
- Detectives find his batcave under her home; there is a rolodex full of fuck-buddies
- they talk to all the fuck-buddies, 32 of them, each of which are given a panel and a few pointless words like "I loved him..." or "It was just once or twice"
- the last one turns out to be the one who was with him when he died. He died having an orgasm.
- She's freaked out because she has a husband and kids, doesn't want it coming out
- Cut to her tearful story being told on TV; she was paid half a million dollars for her story
Ta-da.
Where was the story here???!? Where was the "I didn't see THAT coming!" or "what's going to happen next???"
The comparison to Liefeld is actually funnily on-target: Liefeld distracted from his lack of drawing ability with a ton of extra little lines, and Bendis distracts from his lack of a compelling story and inability to write actually believable dialogue with a ton of extra words & word balloons.
The Warren Ellis guest-star story in this book is godawful too. Two pages are literally just huge fucking word balloons with Warren Ellis giving his usual rant that he's written a million times before about how much he hates superheroes.
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One theory that I have been hearing lately is that much of the Bendis success story can be traced to the editorial decision to include Spider-Man and Wolverine in the New Avengers line-up. That, plus above-average artists, helped boost popularity beyond all reason.
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Then, maybe two years ago, a buddy of mine leant me Ultimate Spiderman... I am not a Spiderman fan, don't like his world, don't like the character... all that stuff. But for some reason this series appealed to me. Not enough to pick it up for myself but for some reason I thought that it seemed like Spiderman done right. I still didn't like Spiderman's world very much, still didn't care for the character, but it seemed to me that Bendis did what should have been done for the character whether I liked it or not. It felt like it would be a great teenager Spiderman book and seemed totally appropriate.
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Batman especially makes Superman look like a boring demigod who has had everything handed to him on a silver platter. Superman needs that foil, the guy who can accomplish just as much without a single power. With that idea in the picture, Superman becomes a much better character.
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Powers sucks hard.
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But no, that's the thing: my examples above are from a crime-themed indie creator-owned book. Definitely no editorial interference, no editor would've allowed all that garbage.Shellhead wrote: Part of the problem is Marvel editors. Even many Bendis fans will admit that his better work was early in his career and only on solo street-level titles. And yet Marvel keeps assigning him high-powered team books, over and over again.
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But no, that's the thing: my examples above are from a crime-themed indie creator-owned book. Definitely no editorial interference, no editor would've allowed all that garbage.Shellhead wrote: Part of the problem is Marvel editors. Even many Bendis fans will admit that his better work was early in his career and only on solo street-level titles. And yet Marvel keeps assigning him high-powered team books, over and over again.
I haven't read Powers, but that example before was cringe-worthy. But if he can't write street-level solo books well either, then why does he get so much work from Marvel? Is he blackmailing Quesada? Because we're talking about a writer who writes heavily decompressed stories, bad dialogue, lame fight scenes, and too many deus ex machina endings. Worst of all, he seems almost completely tone-deaf when it comes to characterization. So what does Bendis bring to the table to get all these writing gigs? There has to be something.
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Best comic I've read in months and months though is Yuichi Yokoyama's GARDEN. I actually found TRAVEL annoying, but Garden was fun with every turn of the page. I'm looking forward to reading WORLD MAP ROOM, in which there is apparently a little bit of a story.
Also read GOLD POLLEN and other stories, which had astoundingly beautiful art but was among the most frustratingly inscrutable comics I've ever read. I actually couldn't make it to the very end of the last story, and it's not a long book.
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