Was CW2 more beneficial for bendis than marvel? Spoilers for several books.

[CaptainMar-Vell92 of the Kree]

As a huge and very selective fan of Thanos:

Agreed, actually.

Hey Fangsfirst! I'm a fan of your Thanos rants on Reddit.

[Zero Hunter]

It was Bendis and his overarching influence on the whole line and on other writers that made me drop pretty much all Marvel books back in the day.

[Digifiend]

This is a seven year old thread that appears to have been bumped for an off topic comment.

Given that Bendis ended up leaving Marvel a year later? Nah, it wasn't beneficial for him.

[Bruce Wayne]

I thought he left because DC gave him a better deal running DC and 5G.

[Morgoth]

And then those plans backfired, and now he's...
By the way, what he's doing these days? It's funny how quietly he left DC.

[Thor-Ul]

I thought he left because DC gave him a better deal running DC and 5G.

Partly. Bendis was already burned in Marvel. He had wrote everything he could work on and the next step would had been make the jump to the audiovisual area of Marvel, either tv or studios.
However, considering than he was one of the people who pushed for the Inhumans in the MCU, I think than he never was to have more influence if Kevin Feige was the boss of all Marvel. And as DiDio offer him, not only the possibility of having freepass to do whatever, he also had the chance to jump easily to the Warner Media divisons of live action and animation. I mean, Naomi was not even published and already had her live action series green lighted.

And then those plans backfired, and now he's...
By the way, what he's doing these days? It's funny how quietly he left DC.

Yeah, well, between the failure of his series, the rejection of his proposals and the fusion Warner/Discovery, the firing of DiDio, his supporter, kind of ruined his plans. There is still the rumored Legion of Super-heroes animated he was writing, but between his silence and the cancelation of several animated projects at Warner, kind of difficult to happen. At least it seems he doesn't talk much about it.

Right now, he still is doing some comics at Dark horse and hoping for his Jinxworld series to be an option for some producer or streamer channel. Who knows, he could be lucky this time.

[Digifiend]

There are two things at Marvel he never wrote. The teen heroes teams, and the Fantastic Four. If he ever wanted to come back to Marvel, they could always give him Champions to relaunch. After all, he did write Young Justice at DC, and he created Miles Morales and Ironheart.

[jackolover]

There are two things at Marvel he never wrote. The teen heroes teams, and the Fantastic Four. If he ever wanted to come back to Marvel, they could always give him Champions to relaunch. After all, he did write Young Justice at DC, and he created Miles Morales and Ironheart.

Yes. I am a big Champions fan, especially now that Kamala is back and I’d love for Bendis to write them.

But I really wanted Bendis to full on write the FF. After writing Victor von Doom and Thing in Iron Man, I’d just like his take on the family and their relationships in their world. It is the most challenging assignment in Marvel.

[Digifiend]

He did use the Champions in his final Miles arc (to even up the numbers, since Miles and Bombshell were fighting the Sinister Six), though the timeline is murky due to the roster he used, which was Ms. Marvel, Spider-Man, Nova, Viv Vision, Totally Awesome Hulk, Cyclops, and Ironheart. I think it was intended to be between the end of Waid's run and the start of Zub's, and Bendis knew Riri was joining the team. However, Nadia joined at the same time, it seems he didn't know Cyclops was leaving and Nadia was joining. It only works timeline wise if Nadia is in Scott's spot.

[H-E-D]

I don't think it was beneficial for Bendis either.

Notably Bendis said he only wrote Civil War II because they couldn't get anybody else to write it lol.

Love Bendis, but outside of Siege and some of the Ultimate Universe stuff... he was pretty bad at events.

[Anthony W]

It was Bendis and his overarching influence on the whole line and on other writers that made me drop pretty much all Marvel books back in the day.

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Ditto. I have been on the fringe of Marvel Comics ever since, buying just knick knacks here and there. Bendis killed my "Make Mine Marvel!" habit dead.

[Tofali]

Ms Marvel book benefited, GWW wrote the hellout of that arc for Kamala vs Carol's minions.

[Digifiend]

It honestly didn't benefit. Wilson basically ignored Champions which launched as part of CW2's fallout, and Ms. Marvel's sales never again reached the peaks of it's first two years.

[Tofali]

It honestly didn't benefit. Wilson basically ignored Champions which launched as part of CW2's fallout, and Ms. Marvel's sales never again reached the peaks of it's first two years.

Ms Marvel's sales were never anything to boast about so I don't understand why you're citing that point. The CW2 arc for Ms Marvel was still very good.

[Digifiend]

It always did better in trades and digital than in monthly floppy format.