Brian Michael Bendis is Going to DC Comics and Things May Never Be The Same

Seismic shifts in comics don’t really happen as often as the fluidity of the comics world would have you imagine. A new writer gets announced for a popular book or even, a character finally gets their own solo series? All cool, engaging news that we get excited about. The we being a site that does much of its business in comic books, so those kinds of announcements are exciting to us. But game changers happen a lot less frequently. The acquisition of Ta-Nehisi Coates crossing into comics and taking up the pen of the most iconic Black superhero in comics lore was such shift. One that was hard to see coming and yet made all the sense in its implementation. So, today, as I thought I would spend a day off of work catching up on middling tasks and going about my business in a low stakes fare, instead raced home when news dropped that Brian Michael Bendis was switching sides and signing an exclusive agreement with DC Comics. For those that know comics but don’t necessarily know comics, basically this is LeBron leaving the Cavs to go win championships in Miami.

If you don’t know sports, then maybe this is the smug “can you hear me now” dude that went from Verizon to Sprint. Either way, you get the point. Bendis has been the most valued and visible writer for Marvel Comics for almost twenty years now. This is, for all intents and purposes, as big a deal as it gets in comics. Living Myth and the Price of it All Brian Michael Bendis, from my beloved home state of Ohio is a Titan in …