Marvel's Brian Michael Bendis on Late Night with Seth Meyers

Marvel's Brian Michael Bendis on Late Night with Seth Meyers

Brian Michael Bendis (Ultimate Spider-Man and Powers) visits Late Night with Seth Meyers. Hit the jump for what he has to say about the latest Marvel event "Secret Wars" and his thanks to Glenn Beck for giving Ultimate Spider-Man an early bump in publicity.

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By NEONRehan - Jan 20, 2015 10:01 PM EST
Filed Under: Spider-Man
Source: Late Night with Seth Meyers

Author and creator of the Ultimate Spider-Man series, Brian Michael Bendis visits Late Night with Seth Meyers to discuss the future of the Marvel Comics universes. Brian Michael Bendis also discusses the success of Miles Morales' Spider-Man and an interesting story of how Glenn Beck's publicity was a factor in sales. 



 
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BatmanHeisenberg
BatmanHeisenberg - 1/20/2015, 10:59 PM
I actually practice aikido with the artist of Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man. Cool guy.
NovaCorpsFan
NovaCorpsFan - 1/20/2015, 11:33 PM
YOU KILLED NOVA, YOU SONUVABITCH!
patrat18
patrat18 - 1/20/2015, 11:39 PM
^ lmao
NEONRehan
NEONRehan - 1/20/2015, 11:52 PM
@Batman and AisA

I fixed his projector during a panel presentation at Comic Con. Check and Mate.
aknightinarkham
aknightinarkham - 1/20/2015, 11:59 PM
"Spider-man would make sense as a kid of color"

A) Why?

B) why is that applause worthy?
NEONRehan
NEONRehan - 1/21/2015, 12:54 AM
@aknight

He's most likely referring to the struggle of being a teenager balancing a superhero identify and comparing it with the story of a minority balancing a superhero identity.

Just like nerds were a plot construct of 90's films, now minorities have their place in relevant pop culture themes.

B) The audience is probably glad to see more minority characters, as it usually takes one pivotal moment in any discussion, to advance it for the next generation of creators. Whether good or bad, this started a trend and opened the conversation for more ideas and possibilities for what a character can be behind the mask and tights.
aknightinarkham
aknightinarkham - 1/21/2015, 12:57 AM
@neonrehan

I still don't really so how being a minority would make Spider-man make more sense. But regardless, the "trend" is more about replacing heroes with minorities for 5 minutes, claiming you're doing something about diversity, and then going back to status quo. Or at best pulling a Miss Marvel. When they should just be creating new characters, not forcing minorities to take hand me down monikers.

NEONRehan
NEONRehan - 1/21/2015, 1:09 AM
technically these are new characters to many generations. If you're alive to see the change, then consider it a privilege of having both worlds to draw from. For future generations, this could be their Miss Marvel, or their Spider-Man. Then if what you say is true, and Marvel does another switcheroo in 50 years, you may have a hispanic-black kid making the equivalent observation and posing the question "why does Marvel just change the ethnicity of the character to meet diversity quota"?

I think you can do both, you can create new characters and insert new amalgamations of existing stories (eg. Green Lantern). The brand is important, and how you re-identify with your current audience. I like Miles Morales and I love Peter Parker (Ultimate) and I never related with 616 Spider-Man. You could argue people have more qualms with Ultimate Comics stories than they did with any race change. Oh, and I believe it's really a moot point since Ultimate Comics is a new universe that has creative freedom to build their own separate audience pool without impacting die-hards of 616.

Then again, Secret Wars just made everyone an enemy I guess. Paradox, paradox, paradox.
sameoldthing
sameoldthing - 1/21/2015, 5:16 AM
I have no problem with Ultimate Spider-Man but if he & Peter will soon share the same universe I HATE the idea of two guys sharing the exact same name.
Sorry Miles,Peter came first..he's Spider-Man.

Ult.Spidey needs a name change...
•Spider-Kid
•Spider-Boy
•Spider-Hero
...someone needs to come up with something.
RexDartEskimoSpy
RexDartEskimoSpy - 1/21/2015, 11:38 AM
I love how Bendis looks like Wilson Fisk but sounds like a twelve year old.
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