“It was an idea that I had floated around the X-office for years,” he continues. “This idea of the original X-Men traveling here to the present, to deal with what they see as a disaster - this is their nightmare, but it’s actually happening,” Bendis says. But each time, he didn’t have a take that wasn’t obviously influenced by the classic run of Chris Claremont.

Over the years, Bendis says, Marvel offered him the keys to the X-Men universe many times. Cyclops, Jean Grey, Iceman, Beast and Angel are time-traveling from the past into the present - an act that has ramifications on the future of all mutants (as well as for mutants from the future traveling to the present. 2) deals with the original five teen X-Men. His current run on the new Marvel titles All New X-Men and Uncanny X-Men (which is part of the larger X-Men crossover called “Battle of the Atom,” which concludes with today’s No. is not a character that reflects all things to all people.”īendis clearly enjoys writing teenage superheroes.

I see more of a reflection of our society than a reflection of his race. When you Brooklyn or Queens, there’s a tone that I didn’t think we had properly reflected in the books. “It just seems that we should reflect that whenever possible, without doing it for stunts. “The world that we live in now is much more colorful and diverse and open,” Bendis continues. And that’s the world that they reflected. A lot of the icon characters from Marvel and DC were created in the early ’60s by straight white men, as far as we know.

the world that Peter Parker was invented in. “I was just craving a Spider-Man that I thought more reflected the world that we live in, vs. “That’s always what it’s been to me” - Miles’s being a great Spider-Man, says Bendis. “It was,” he says, “one of the greatest moments of my whole career.”įor Bendis, Morales and the role he plays in the Marvel universe is about the hero he has the potential to be - and not so much about his racial makeup. There, Bendis saw people dressed up as Morales’s Spider-Man, and he was greeted by many fans who let him know what the character meant to them. But he did make it to San Diego Comic-Con this past summer. Partly due to his many writing commitments, Bendis says he rarely makes it to conventions. “I’m hugely relieved that people love him so much.” Bendis says of his Ultimate Spider-Man, Miles Morales.

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