Bendis Leaves Marvel For DC After 17 Years

Couldn't disagree more. Bendis' Daredevil run proves he'd be able to give us something outstanding with Batman. 

If you are bringing in Bendis, he is getting his hands on the shiniest toys in the store. He has spoken over the years about wanting to do Batman and a noirish take on Plastic Man.

Bendis doing Batman would be great. Sure continuity might go out of the window but who f***ing cares, it'll be Brian Michael Bendis doing Batman!!! If it was only half as good as his Daredevil run it'd still be something special.

New 52 started in 2011, Rebirth was 2016.

Batman could work if it wasn't set in the main continuity. There are titles that are like Elseworlds (Nightwing: The New Order and Gotham City Garage), and Convergence restored the multiverse after all.

Tom King is on Batman. Bendis wrote a Batman story for a collection ten years ago.

Really just those two as permanent reboots - others like Flashpoint and Convergence were gateways to the relaunches rather than page one rebooots in their own right. Flashpoint was always a prelude to New 52 and Convergence a post-script which also worked as a way to bring in some characters lost in the post-Crisis but pre-52 shuffle. 

Though the current status quo since Rebirth seems to have really an excuse to cross over the DC characters with the Watchmen characters. Right back at the start of Rebirth Batman found The Comedian's bloodied badge (why was it bloodied?) and there's been a big Ozymandias tease involving Superman and a character called Mr Oz which I won't spoil. It gives me the fear, honestly. Before Watchmen was awful and this doesn't give me much hope it'll be better. Letting  Geoff Johns do a 12-issue series of Superman meeting Dr. Manhattan....sounds absolutely insufferable from the way Johns has been hyping it as a "crazy cosmic adventure". Like The Dark Knight Returns, it amazes me creators can revere Watchmen so much but seemingly have little understanding of why it works.

From what I've read of his stuff, I think Tom King is a good writer and I have heard good things about his Batman run but again, we need to keep coming back to Bendis' place in this industry. This is a huge move. If he wants Batman, he is going to get Batman. If he wants Detective Comics, he gets Detective Comics. And right on down the line. It's Brian Michael Bendis moving to DC after shaping Marvel Comics for almost 2 decades. Editorial is going to give him what he wants.

Daredevil has been one of my favorite characters since I was young and Bendis' Daredevil run is stunning. It's my favorite run on the character and one of my all time favorite runs in comics. He's got some stiff competition, too, as the runs on Daredevil by Frank Millar, Denny O'Neil, Ed Brubaker, and Mark Waid are all outstanding. That's not an easy race to come out on top of.

I'm not too surprised that Bendis is switching lanes at this point in his career as he's written just about everything and everyone there is to write at Marvel. He may want new challenges or new sandboxes to play in.

I think that DC will likely let Bendis step on the gas any way he wants and there's a %99 chance we'll see him write either Batman or Superman within two years, probably less. The only reason DC wouldn't give him the keys to their two biggest kingdoms is if Bendis has special plans for another A-lister such as Wonder Woman, The Flash, or Green Lantern and he wants to focus on that. The drawing power of putting his name on a book like Justice League is money in the bank for them so they'll look to do something like that ASAP.

For the record, I think he'd do a great Batman book, but the character I'd most like to see him on is The Question.

Elongated Man, who has powers similar to Plastic Man, was recently on the Flash tv show. That in conjunction with BMB's name to do a Plastic Man title?