>>118044244They were chasing after the Bendis of TWENTY YEARS AGO. The man hadn't written anything loved by readers in, what, nearly a decade when DC grabbed him?
For some reason Didio (Or Lee?) seemed to think Bendis was a huge get, but overall he seems to be an utter sales disaster. Superman sales down for fewer books a month. (Or at least the bump per issue can't be worth the THREE shipments a month he cost them. Double shipping on two and Supersons.) A seemingly reviled take on the Legion. An "event" that people didn't care about. Letting him plot the entire horrible future of the DC universe for some reason? The man has shown no skill at big ideas or worldbuilding, but they literally gave him all of it for a thousand years? How does that goddamn work?
I think the new EiC's seem to know what a shit sandwich they were left with him. You don't boot a guy at Bendis's supposed level off of seemingly ever book he's doing if you like the numbers.
Well. He got Conner, Bart, and Cassie back. So there's that. Granted from what I hear it doesn't actually make any sense and the character voices are all off.
