Known for his commitment to character and his natural dialogue, Brian Michael Bendis modernized Marvel's storytelling for the new millennium. His nuanced portrayals of forgotten heroes like Spider-Woman, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist catapulted them back to the A-List. Similarly, his eight years at the helm of the Avengers comics turned it into the powerhouse franchise it is today.
Brian Michael Bendis grabbed everyone's attention with the launch of the Ultimate line of comics and this modernized retelling of Peter Parker's origin. More so than any other Marvel hero, Bendis has become synonymous with Ultimate Spider-Man after helming the character's adventures for 12 years and 160 issues!
Early in his career at Marvel, Bendis took over DAREDEVIL-a beloved, underdog series-and turned it into a commercially successful and critically acclaimed series. His nearly five year run on the Man Without Fear, one that would out his identity to the world, begins here!
In the aftermath of her catastrophic mental breakdown in AVENGERS #500, the Scarlet Witch is public enemy number one. But before the New Avengers and the Astonishing X-Men can trade blows over Wanda Maximoff's fate, the reality-warping mutant rewrites existence to fit her father Magneto's wishes. This phrase gets tossed around a lot, but this is the storyline that really changes everything!
Bendis continued to revitalize Jessica Drew after a decade of misuse in this boundary-pushing solo series. Along with his DAREDEVIL collaborator Alex Maleev, Bendis reimagined Spider-Woman as a cunning alien hunter working on behalf of a super spy agency called S.W.O.R.D.!
After the death of the Ultimate Universe's Peter Parker, Bendis took the opportunity to introduce an all-new Spider-Man for a whole new generation of readers. Enter: Miles Morales, a half-Latino, half-black kid from Brooklyn sruggling with school, living up to his parents' expectations, and-thanks to a random encounter with an irradiated spider-his new role as Spider-Man!
After focusing his attention on the Avengers side of the Marvel Universe, Bendis has taken over the X-Men franchise with ALL-NEW X-MEN and 2013's UNCANNY X-MEN. With mutantkind's loyalties divided between Cyclops and Wolverine, Bendis chose to throw in another complication: the time-traveling teenage versions of the original X-Men team!
Immediately after being handed the keys to Avengers Mansion, Bendis blew that mansion up! When their teammate Scarlet Witch loses it, she takes the Avengers' status quo, and not to mention a few heavy-hitting Avengers, down with her. This is the Avengers' darkest hour!
When an all-new assortment of disparate heroes band together to stop a super villain prison break, Iron Man and Captain America feel the urge to form a team of New Avengers. Luke Cage, Sentry, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, and Wolverine all heed the call to form the leanest and meanest Avengers roster to date!
With the super hero community split apart over the Super Hero Registration Act, the government forms their own team of Avengers-and deems them to be mighty! This team, led by Ms. Marvel and packed with Avengers stalwarts like the Wasp, Wonder Man, and Black Widow, takes on big time adversaries in a truly classic fashion!
After years of planting hints within NEW AVENGERS, Bendis was able to pay off his large-scale Skrull invasion of Earth in this epic event series. With these shape-shifting aliens in play, every super hero involved had to re-examine their teammates as they struggled with trust issues.