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The world can seem like a terrible and strange place sometimes, but at Bleeding Cool you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies and more- and give Brian Bendis your fondest birthday wishes The Daily Lying In The Gutters, remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead[...]

Today sees the release of Legion Of Super-Heroes #7 by Brian Michael Bendis and Ryan Sook and this is the most Bendisy issue Brian has written for DC

Brian Bendis had a lot to say about new Superman villain Synmar, being introduced in Superman #25 out in September. "We thought, you know, we have a Superman #25, it's a big double sized anniversary issue What a grand opportunity to put the new toy in the Superman toy box and create a villain We thought[...]

There's a lot of it in DC Comics today, mostly in the Brian Bendis and Bendis-adjacent books – but I wasn't expecting Lois Lane to be the one to provide these realisations as heartbreaking and even uplifting allegories for our times Let's dive in… a few spoilers below. Young Justice (written by Bendis with David F[...]

I believe in the American Way." While the current writer of the Superman and Action Comics books for DC Comics, Brian Bendis, began his run two years ago, telling the New York Times, "When you strip everything away on Superman you're basically stripping away all the ridiculous stuff and getting to the real truths It's about[...]

Some folk suggested that current Superman writer Brian Bendis might benefit from reading it, I would suggest that he most definitely has. We have seen Marvel gain great success with House Of X giving us a Charles Xavier seemingly going against all his principles Might we have similar to Superman, especially if a world and its[...]

Event Leviathan: Checkmate was a planned sequel to Event Leviathan by the same creative team, Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev Then a certain pandemic hit Now retailers have been informed that the sequel series has been indefinitely postponed and that it will be "will be rescheduled to align with upcoming DC Universe storylines." Not sure what[...]

Superman #22 by Brian Bendis, Kevin Maguire, Alex Sinclair and Dave Sharpe from DC Comics out today or tomorrow, has a moment that may be familiar But only to those who have followed Bendis work from company to company – and were reading it a couple of decades ago Remember this? Superman Gets A Promotion in[...]

That sold for a whopping $4700 and a suggestion that similar copies, maybe one signed by Brian Bendis as well, could top $5000 any day now An unsigned CGC 9.8 edition sold for $4150 While a raw unslabbed unsigned copy sold for $1600, still a massive sum. As for the standard cover of Ultimate Fallout #4, a[...]

Don't worry, Bendis-Superman fans, Brian Bendis isn't going anywhere anytime soon He joined DC Comics in 2018, taking over the Superman books from Action Comics #1000, introduced characters like Rogol Zaar and Red Cloud as well as the Metropolis Invisible Mafia, dealt with Jor-El returning to life, brought Ma and Pa Kent back to life,[...]

#Creators4Comics is the hashtag being used for creator auctions to raise money for comic stores in these turbulent times.

Including it seems, today's Legion Of Super-Heroes #5 by Brian Bendis and Ryan Sook Now, those keen readers of Bleeding Cool's coverage of 5G and the then-planned new DC Timeline, will remember that this included the likes of Bruce Wayne being replaced as Batman by Luke Foz, Barry Allen being replaced as The Flash by[...]

And Far Sector #6 has slipped from the 22nd of April to the 28th/ These are the kind of delays usually ignored by Bleeding Cool but they put the rest into some kind of context. Birds of Prey #1 by Azzarello and Lupacciano continues to slip, a full three months now from the 29th of January[...]

She's always been presented as someone without a power set. And she has had every conversation possible to imagine in those ten lifetimes of hers… she knows just what everyone is going to do. Could this storyline have been inspired by Jonathan Hickman's original plans? Is this what certain DC Comics executives were rather annoyed about when[...]

Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev are returning to the events of Event Leviathan in Leviathan Dawn this week. The preview includes a scene in which the

Action Comics #1020 is in stores from DC Comics next week, by "The Great One" Brian Bendis and John Romita Jr We've got a preview below. And in that preview we find, not Superman, but the teenage heroes of Young Justice, waiting outside the Hall of Justice, for Superman. Who loves nothing more than to make a[...]

Leviathan Dawn #1 is in stores from DC Comics next week, a victory lap by "The Great One" Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev following the Event Leviathan event.   But what was the purpose of this event? To set up a new status quo in the DC Universe, tying together all the loose ends of DC's various[...]

Back in Action Comics #1000, which saw Brian Bendis' first Superman story, drawn by Jim Lee and Scott Williams, the lead story by Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapmund saw Superman welcomed by a group of his peers At the time there was a little disquiet that the supervillain Harley Quinn, and gun-wielding assassin/mervenary Deathstroke were[...]

Well in today's Young Justice #12 by Brian Bendis, John Timms and Gabe Eltaeb, it seems like Brian Bendis has brought in the star of his best-known comic for Marvel, Ultimate Spider-Man I mean, this issue is meant to be a Wonder Comics crossover but how far will they take it? This specific twist begins[...]

But the regular Superman series are currently written by Millar's Ultimate stable-mate Brian Bendis (23# on the power list) DC Comics has just published Bendis' latest tale that has seen Superman reveal to the world that he is Clark Kent – a twist that Millar told John Siuntres' Word Balloon podcast that he thought was[...]

Siuntres also asked him about the news of Brian Bendis, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado getting rid of Superman's secret identity as Clark Kent Millar tells John, "I hate the idea of this being used against Bendis because I do love him Brian is one of my favourite people in the industry and I love that[...]

Superman #19, featuring the continued story of Superman's secret identity reveal from Brian Bendis, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado, was meant to be out in a week-and-a-bit Looks like the New Year celebrations may be delaying things a little as the comic has now been pushed back two weeks from January 8th to January 22nd,[...]

Ultimate Spider-Man writer Brian Bendis heard about this and was not happy – he was wanting himself, Bagley and Thibert to beat the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby hundred-plus record on The Fantastic Four, together Thibert sent Bogart some original artwork as a gift, wanting to reach out to talk through any issues, but didn't hear back. Thibert[...]

Superman #18 by Brian Bendis, Joe Prado and Ivan Reis is published tomorrow from DC Comics Expect spoilers in the mainstream press but… I mean, Superman reveals he is Clark Kent to the world That's probably all the spoiler you need. SUPERMAN #18 (W) Brian Michael Bendis (A/CA) Joe Prado, Ivan Reis With Superman's family scattered across the[...]

But we move swiftly from Scott Snyder to Brian Michael Bendis. And the statted panel with interlinking back-and-forth Mamet-style dialogue. Brian Bendis gets really annoyed when people caricature him like this, saying he doesn't write like this anymore But he does But then Grant Mprrison reminds us of the changes he made to Superman back in 2011[...]

Matt Fraction appeared on John Siuntres' Word Balloon Podcast talking about his work on Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen and working with brian Bendis and the rest of the Superman team And talking about the upcoming Superman/Clark Kent 'no more secrets' identity reveal in the Superman comic books He mentioned a small spoiler regarding the spluttering[...]

The 55th Annual Nina Mae Kellogg Lecture at the Portland State English Department will today feature Brian Michael Bendis and Kelly Sue DeConnick in

Walker will join the creative team as co-writer alongside "The Great One" Brian Bendis starting with February's Young Justice #13 In addition, John Timms will join Mike Grell on art for the series with this issue. Young Justice #13 sees the team search for Superboy who has apparently been trapped on Skartaris, as the solicit also teases[...]

Think of it like the sort of clickbait articles Bleeding Cool publishes collecting tweets of people reacting to a story, except in comic book form. To celebrate all the cash DC is going to be raking in from these one-shots, superstar writer "The Great One" Brian Bendis gave an interview to Newsarama's Vaneta Rogers, and he[...]

It is fair to say that after Brian Bendis joined DC Comics, brought with him his creator-owned Jinxworld series, took over the Superman and Action Comics books, wrote Batman for the Giant books, launched an sub-imprint of Wonder Comics titles, including writing Naomi and Young Justice, launched the event series Event Leviathan… that both the[...]