Brian Michael Bendis

“Fight today, cry tomorrow.”

— Brian Michael Bendis

“...And that, my friend, is why Brendan Fraser sucks.”

— Brian Michael Bendis

“There, there are no chicken wings”

— Brian Michael Bendis

You're as good as the people you're with.

— Brian Michael Bendis

It's too theatrical not to express yourself constantly.

— Brian Michael Bendis

I never look at things again once they're done.

— Brian Michael Bendis

If you like Powers, you'll love The Victories!

— Brian Michael Bendis

One of the things I like to do is people's hearts are on their sleeve, whether it's a good or a bad…

— Brian Michael Bendis

You can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment.

— Brian Michael Bendis

I'll never get sick of raising my children, but other people might get sick of them.

— Brian Michael Bendis

“Ah, man, when Wolverine grows his face back, he's really gonna be pretty upset.”

— Brian Michael Bendis

The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you.

— Brian Michael Bendis

“I swear to God, I wish I was cute and dumb. Just for a day.”

— Brian Michael Bendis

The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.

— Brian Michael Bendis

“What do you suspect from a society that gets all its news from late-night comedy shows?”

— Brian Michael Bendis

I was listening to the inclusiveness of Spider-Man, and why he's so appealing to so many people, but I didn't connect it…

— Brian Michael Bendis

And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist,…

— Brian Michael Bendis

In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially,…

— Brian Michael Bendis

Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.

— Brian Michael Bendis

The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape…

— Brian Michael Bendis

I have a very strong color theory, for instance, where in 'Powers,' green means powerless, and red means power.The story was all…

— Brian Michael Bendis

I love meeting fans. The people who are fans of my books are really smart and dedicated, because some independent comics are…

— Brian Michael Bendis

I've been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces a new…

— Brian Michael Bendis

The only damn thing I ever learned in all my years in art school was a piece is never done, it is…

— Brian Michael Bendis

I was on the set of the first Powers pilot, and an actor of color came up to me and said, "When…

— Brian Michael Bendis

It also helps that what Dan Slott is doing with Peter Parker in the comics has elevated him to something else, so…

— Brian Michael Bendis

One of the things I like to do is people's hearts are on their sleeve, whether it's a good or a bad…

— Brian Michael Bendis

“Stop thinking about the fact that the world has turned against you and the irony is you shouldn't even be here. You…

— Brian Michael Bendis

I see this with experienced writers, too: They worry so much about the plot that they lose sight of the characters. They…

— Brian Michael Bendis

The other cool thing is, even with Jessica [Johnson], or Daredevil, I had taken a break from those characters for a while…

— Brian Michael Bendis

“everyone you know in mainstream comics was discovered from their work in independent or self-published comics or other creative work in another…

— Brian Michael Bendis

Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long…

— Brian Michael Bendis

You find there's no magic trick, sometimes in the shower, sometimes you're just lying in bed calm, sometimes you're just enjoying life…

— Brian Michael Bendis

I didn't know why I was coming to this room. Someone just told me to go to Sam Raimi's office. I knew…

— Brian Michael Bendis

I couldn't take my eyes off of Stan [Lee]! As good as the movie is, all I could think about is, "What's…

— Brian Michael Bendis

I obviously love those characters ['The Avengers'] with my whole heart. I was on a one-man "Luke Cage is cool" campaign for…

— Brian Michael Bendis

“You know your father, God rest his soul... Your father had a philosophy the he held to pretty strongly. And it's one…

— Brian Michael Bendis

I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it.

— Brian Michael Bendis

From my personal taste, it needed more of a visual style. It's so hard when you're adapting something that's so visually scrumptious…

— Brian Michael Bendis

Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does.

— Brian Michael Bendis