![]() ![]() And maybe that is progress? I mean, superheroes and their stories are going to hold a place in popular culture for the foreseeable future. Because it’s an example of someone cutting through commercial products, like superhero teams and crossover universes, to expand their language, exposing us, the audience, to some different tone. So, it’s a real positive thing when someone manages to do it. And instead, they would act as a baseline for superheroes or other categories of popular media - That just isn’t the case. And while I think in a better world, voice and viewpoint wouldn’t be such signifiers. ![]() He is a writer with a certain voice and viewpoint, and his craft has been practiced and employed. There is a particular use of the form inherent to most all of his comics that tell you they’re by Bendis. He’s kept to his same signature style, dialogue-heavy, decompressed scenes of character development, and he hasn’t really let up. I know you could make the argument that his writing stopped being interesting a long time ago. I like the fact that Brian Michael Bendis still writes superhero comic books. ![]()
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