Books by Brian Michael Bendis
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review 1: The only justification I have for my three stars is the artwork; and the basic trajectory. Why don't comic book writers and publishers ever seem to have a grip on editing. The poorly-thought-out structure and delivery really impedes the enjoyment of a relatively brief story. Take...
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review 1: Jean Grey has always been one of my favorite X-Men characters and I am really enjoying the All- New X-Men storyline involving the young Jean dealing with the disastrous future ahead of her. The concept of this book is particularly intriguing- young Jean of the past is captured an...
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review 1: In this trade paperback we have another good and interesting plot from Bendis. With the Hood gone missing, all his villains are searching for alternative way of making profit. Doctor Jonas Harrow was able to salvage the de-powering device, used by our beloved Avengers in the prev...
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review 1: The “Guardians of the Galaxy” movie is a hit. At a reported $94 million, the newest movie from Marvel Studios has the largest August opening in history. It is not hard to see why with a mix of funny, likable characters with explosive action and a plot that’s exciting the film has...
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review 1: I got this because I thought it was going to be like Tank Girl, but I ended up barely being able to get through it. If you belong to generation social justice warrior, you'll probably really like this book. If you don't, I don't expect you'll find too much to like here. I can't b...
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review 1: The teenaged original X-Men travel through time to confront their screwed up, disillusioned middle-aged selves. It's a clever concept, but not one that I think can sustain an entire multi-arc series. As executed here, it mostly just shows how much the different writers have lost...
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review 1: This book was everything I wanted it to be. The fun of Miles with the lightheartedness of Peter. Inter-dimensional travel. And heart…a lot of heart.Before I review the book, I think it is important to point out something from the past. At the San Diego Comic Con in 2005, Ulti...
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review 1: Finally... After reading through all the rest of the Ultimate Spider-Man series, seeing some of the buzz here and there, and anticipating his debut, MILES MORALES is here, in the role of the Ultimate Spider-Man! This volume brings a brand new kid into the role of Spider-Man. Just...
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review 1: When Brian Michael Bendis first began writing the “Avengers” in 2004 his first act was to completely disassemble the team. The status quo that had built up over the previous five decades was removed from the picture. But in that act Bendis was able to get back to the core of what...
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review 1: I reread Volume 1 right before reading this because it has been a while since I checked out Miles Morales' storyline. I forgot how young he is. Only 13 years old. That's crazy. It is fun watching Miles as he is slowly growing into a hero. He has a hero’s heart, but he is sti...
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review 1: Kids will swallow almost anything. My sister once ate a few of my Grandfather’s 1800’s commemorative coins. I don’t recall what they commemorated. That one worked out in the end. Eventually. My son once ingested Iron Man’s head armor and, even though he passed it, needless t...
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review 1: This is a marginal improvement over the first volume. I like how the different teams represent competing political ideologies (Avengers = Establishment, Wolverine's Team = Reform, Cyclops' Team = Revolution) and there are some nice interactions between Kitty and Jean. BUT! The ...
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review 1: De las páginas de Invasión Secreta y Los Nuevos Vengadores, llegan las nuevas aventuras de Jessica Drew, también conocida como Spiderwoman. Largo tiempo secuestrada por los Skrull, la más carismática mujer Marvel ha despertado en un mundo que ya no reconoce como suyo y que la rec...
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review 1: One book which explains the whole interconnected nature of the Ultimate Marvel world, this is a great story. Great because it pretty much lays out all the major players in the Universe and how things end up as they do. Bendis does a great job, and it's very cool to see the slight...
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review 1: Collects All-New X-Men issues #18-21 and X-Men Gold #1After four volumes and the "Battle of the Atom" event, I'm still incredibly interested in this series. This is another great volume, and it takes place minutes after the end of "Battle of the Atom."The new costumes are great,...
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review 1: ***Read only Issue #12.1***From the wonderful folks at Comixology, this one covers the disappearance of Jessica Drew/Spider-Woman, and features a butt-load of Avengers, all working to find her. It's fun to see so many teamed up, but you dilute what each can contribute when you ha...
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review 1: This series continues to be fun and interesting. When I first heard about the idea behind it, putting the original five X-Men into present day, I thought, "Oh, man, what a fucking gimmick! Marvel is really out of ideas!", but I was pretty wrong. Bendis and co. are taking this pre...
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review 1: *laughs* I read it so quickly, I didn't have time to mark my status as 'reading'. So, this was not really a success for me. "Kung Fu Telekinesis" is possibly the silliest phrase I've ever heard. And though story was just as silly. Sure there were some interesting bits, but quite ...
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review 1: Esperaba poco de este comic, pero me dejo varias cosas muy buenas:-JR JR es un artista muy bueno, incluso, cuando se ve afanado como en varios paneles, despues te regala otros que te dejan con la quijada a la altura del ombligo ( el thor y el tripode, los heroes contra Ultron, el...
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review 1: The uncanny comic origins of the defenders known as The Guardians of the Galaxy - NOT as you may know them from the recent Disney/Marvel movie of the same name. Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man, meets with Star-Lord and finds himself (along with the rest of them) in deep, intergalacti...
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review 1: What an anti-climax. I assume this is meant to be part of some cross-over with the Ultimates, but it's a shame that such an important chapter of the series can't stand alone. But then, it doesn't feel like an important chapter of the series...it just feels like Bendis got a whi...
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review 1: Fun little tale featuring three estranged Avengers learning to trust one another again, with excellent art by Alan Davis and Mark Farmer.I've criticized Brian Michael Bendis in the past for his weak plotting skills, but when given a little five issue book like this, he turns out ...
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review 1: With the teaming of Brian Bendis, Jonathan Hickman, and artist Stefano Caselli this book held promise--a promise it delivered. This series works to explain Nick Fury's actions following the Secret Invasion in the Marvel Universe. Bendis does a brilliant job of establishing both...
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review 1: This volume of Ultimate Spider-Man was the tie-in to the big crossover that ended the original iteration of the Ultimate Marvel Universe: Ultimatum. Magneto had suffered a grievous loss and decided he was going to wipe out all humanity. Tidal waves, earthquakes, and all manner of...
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review 1: Comics like this are the reason that one reads comics. Bendis' writing is so exacting and self-assured that one has no choice but to go where his flights of fancy take you, and he took me exactly where I'd want a Daredevil story to be going, the heart of the criminla underworld ...
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review 1: A little slow. Fun, but slow. Bendis tries for some character development issues here, but he doesn't do a whole lot with them. The new characters still feel very sketchy, although they've got potential, and the older characters aren't quite involved enough for them to advance at...
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review 1: Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man Vol. 1 which collects the first 5 issues of the series from 2012 written by Brian Michael Bendis. Despite starring an elementary school student, Miles Morales, it has a T+ rating on the back (the only comic book volume I read with a rating). I’d agre...
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review 1: First the art. I really don’t like the style of Chris Bachalo. Definitely not my type of drawing. I was relieved when Billy Tan stepped in with the last two issues. Bendis really likes the Hood (obviously because he created him). This collection is dealing mostly with the search ...
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review 1: Brian Michael Bendis went to the David Mamet School of Character Dialogue, where you simulate real characters having real conversations just as real people would actually interact, with all their conscious and unconscious motivations compete with realistic personality traits.Add ...
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review 1: Enhhhnnnnn. This next instalment in my post-Avengers superhero craze was... OK, but I definitely didn't find it rave-worthy. But compared to X-23: the Killing Dream that I read last week (hell, compared to much of the fanfic on the LiveJournal Avengerkink community), the charac...
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review 1: Dropping back in on Miles after the very enjoyable first collection, things continue well though I really didn't like Chris Samnee's opening art. Still, the story moves in an unexpected way, we have a new Scorpion and a highly entertaining encounter with the Ringer. Still, the ...
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review 1: MASSIVE SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!MASSIVE SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!MASSIVE SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I'm annoyed. What's with this s...
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review 1: I hate the art in this series so much that it is distracting. I want to read all of the X-men books because there seems to be a lot of crossover... but the art from this series is just driving me away. Buchalo's work is rough, and unfinished. It's also full of weird stylistic cho...
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review 1: Not bad. Liked some of the 'sexy montages'. One of the probems I have with Powers in general, and more so in this particular book, is the panel layouts. Maybe it's a lot clearer in the individual issues, but the sequence of panels is sometimes quite difficult to follow and I f...
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review 1: For all that this displays the flaws running through Bendis' X-Men run, it also manages to make him look good. Because in the back is a special celebrating 50 years of the mutant team, containing new stories by some of the writers who've defined them - Stan Lee, Chris Claremon, F...
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review 1: This Siege tie-in has some great material, but also has some retread which brings it down somewhat. For those who buy all the tie-ins trying to get the complete picture of the event, it can be annoying to see the same story again and again without even changing the POV. That said...
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review 1: A decent follow up to the first volume of Mighty Avengers, but not really as good.Okay, first the good: The series continues to be incredibly colorful (in characters, in events, in visuals). Doom get's to shine as a villain and there are some great moments between him and Iron m...
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review 1: The first 2 parts of this volume are about Nick Fury and him forming what will eventually become the Secret Warriors. They're drawn by Alex Maleev and they're pretty great. It's the reason I'm giving this 4 stars and not 3, because the other two issues which make up this volume a...
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review 1: I’m still enjoying this title in which the original X-Men are doing the time warp again, but I’m starting to wonder how it can possibly continue in a satisfying fashion. The idea that the younger versions are having to face the consequences of choices they haven’t made yet conti...
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review 1: I enjoy watching the TV series when I can find the time to watch it, so I bought these books as an experiment just to see what they are like. Well, as the supposed graphic novel adaptation of a fictional author's fictional author's novel, it's not bad, quite good in fact. I'd go ...
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review 1: Romita's art is cool. Bendis phoned this one in.
review 2: Not a bad Avengers story with a bunch of cameos, alternate-futures, and time travel.
review 2: Not a bad Avengers story with a bunch of cameos, alternate-futures, and time travel.
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review 1: This was a good introduction to the new avengers. It gave the reader information about each member of the team without drawing away from the plot or making the writing seem dull, it kept the story going at a fast pace. The end made me want to read the next volume to see where the...
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review 1: One flaw of this series is the addition of new elements to the story. Sometimes they do it really well, other extremely ham-handedly. This one added yet another chapter to Walker's life, which is a fine and well established practice, taking into account his flawed mind/memory. Ho...
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review 1: I've been reading this series for 12 years now, and to see it come to an end like this is bittersweet. On one hand, the series has lost it's spark over the years and it's better to give it a big goodbye than let it sink into mediocrity. Yet, this story really doesn't do the book ...
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review 1: I really love this series and this book is the end of an era. As you can see by the title, well I'll let you read it to see what actually goes down at the end. As for the beginning, the Green Goblin has busted out of S. H. I. E. L. D. custody again, amassed a "Sinister Six" of so...
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review 1: I picked this one up after reading Mark Millar's Ultimate Avengers / Avengers vs. Ultimates were Spidey (as a teenager) suddenly showes up, picking up a bullet The Punisher aimed at Captain America. Since I didn't read previous issues of the Ultimate Spider-man some story-lines ...
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review 1: Apparently, this was part of the Ultimate line's first (I think?) big crossover event. I freely admit to having not one clue what was going on with the larger storyline here. But I think that's ok, and even works with the story as shown here. Because Peter doesn't exactly know wh...
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review 1: This was a major missing piece to the Siege Event for me. I also liked getting some more info on major players who were either not paid attention to or who seemed lost. The story on Capt. Marvel (Noh-Varr) was very enjoyable and explained why he was there at the beginning and the...
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review 1: This is the first Marvel comic book I've read, and it was pretty good.I read this because of the Guardians of the Galaxy movie which I intend to see. It was pretty interesting, and I liked it a lot. But this newer series kinda confuses me, because the Guardians are already a team...
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review 1: I have mixed feelings about this one. For starters, I like the idea of Cyclops becoming some sort of revolutionary figure for mutants, I also like his team and the new members... but it's just not captivating enough for me to want more.During this volume, we have various artists ...
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review 1: As you may be able to tell, this volume is largely concerned with Venom and Brian Michael Bendis does not shy away from the chaos the Venom symbiote can cause. Mile Morales go through some major trauma in this one and as per usual, the volume ends on a bit of a cliffhanger. It al...
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review 1: I have to say, I went into this volume not expecting an end to the series that felt like it fit, knowing that New Avengers was shortly restarted again. But after reading this it came off as the perfect ending place for this group of heroes as a team. This team was defined by th...
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review 1: This graphic novel was pretty fun. For those who don't know, the graphic novel is an adaptation of the books written by the author on the TV show Castle. I could 100% hear the Nathan Fillion character in Derrick Storm. And all the humor and snarkiness from the TV show could be he...
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review 1: This graphic novel “adaptation” of fictional author Richard Castle’s first book in the Derrick Storm series, Deadly Storm, was rushed. It didn’t allow for a lot of time to get to know Storm, but what did come through was a cross between Castle himself and Jeffrey Donovan’s Michae...
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review 1: My book review is on The Avengers written by Brian Michael Bendis. It is a superhero comic book intended for young adults. I like this book because of the action in the book and the storyline. H.A.M.M.E.R. agents have broken Norman Osborn out of prison. He is working with A.I.M. ...
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review 1: I finished Secret Invasion this morning, and it was better than I expected. Bendis is hit or miss for me, and, honestly, I didn't expect a hit there i was pleasantly surprised to get one. New Avengers is nice, but it reads like deleted scenes or special features. I remember when ...
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review 1: The main Secret Invasion series was bombastic, fight-heavy, and read like Cliff's Notes, so I enjoyed what this series did with the event. Instead of mirroring and expanding the main events, like The New Avengers did, this book told backstories in each issue. The stories that foc...
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review 1: There are two New Avengers tie-in trades for the crossover event Secret Invasion. And honestly, there is no good reason, other than greed, why they weren't collated into one book. Never-the-less, they are well worth reading.The first half of book 2 picks up from the "New Avengers...
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review 1: This one was a lot of fun. I'll admit the beginning rubbed me the wrong way: "How dare you not live a life that puts you in constant danger, teenage boy whose mother died tragically in your arms?" Then there's Cloak and Dagger's constant whining. I agree that getting into a hor...
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review 1: A satisfying wrap-up, as Moon Knight pairs up with another low-powered Avenger to take down a burgeoning West Coast kingpin. I think Bendis does a good job with the setting and characterization; it's all fluid and fun to follow along. I never quite bought the central premise, tho...
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review 1: Collects All-New X-Men issues #25-30This continues to be one of the best Marvel NOW books out there. The relational stuff is awesome, because even after 30 issues, it is still so much fun to see how the younger versions of the X-Men interact with their older counterparts. There...
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review 1: Bendis is continuing on in vol 4 and its pretty on par with the previous books. I happen to read vol 1-4 in comic form but decided to chop my budget so here I am reading the graphic novels now. Dazzler is found with Magnetos help and Hijack saves the day. She hulk enters and has ...
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review 1: With the film version being hugely praised it is good to see the comics series remain strong at the same time. This volume of Guardians of the Galaxy sees Peter Quill/Starlord facing up his royal father as the rest of the Guardians are sold to the various alien races of the Marve...
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review 1: “Words for Pictures” is an interesting text— More-so because it is exactly that: A textbook. The author, Brian Michael Bendis, is a writer that I have read for years; he has written some of my favorite superhero tales from the modernization of the New Avengers to his current X...