EW: Brian Bendis Sells Secret Invasion

I don't follow American superhero comics all that closely, but I found this interview with Brian Bendis at the Entertainment Weekly web site fairly fascinating anyway. Bendis is talking to the magazine in support of Marvel's Secret Invasion crossover, but other than a semi-effective and one supposes pre-canned line about how airline passengers still scan for potential terrorists post-9/11, there's not a whole lot in the way of a classic American mainstream comics overture to non-hardcore comics fans. This makes me think a couple of things: Marvel sees value in this kind of interview perhaps as a status piece above and beyond the opportunity it presents for pumping up sales, and Marvel is able to score a high-profile interview like this one less on the cultural juice of a well-conceived and potentially pop-relevant superhero series and more as the latest effort from a major entertainment company. Anyhow, a lot of what popped for me is the stuff that sounds weird when you don't have your superhero comics hat on, like Marvel's James Bond teaming up with a bunch of new superheroes like this is something that makes perfect sense, or that the Skrull concept was all wrong with the rayguns and whatnot and obviously needed to be corrected.

Also, I always get the feeling when I read about superhero plot developments that exactly like hearing plotlines from a TV program in its 8th season that I gave up in the second or third on after enjoying the first. "I so used to watch that show!"
 
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