Books by Brian Michael Bendis and Complete Book Reviews

Brian Michael Bendis, Author, Michael Avon Oeming, Illustrator . Image $14.95 (128p) ISBN 978-1-58240-331-1
This strong collection explores questions raised decades ago by Alan Moore and Frank Miller: how would ordinary citizens feel about sharing their world with people who have superhuman abilities? And what responsibility accompanies extraordinary...
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Brian Michael Bendis, Author, Michael Avon Oeming, Illustrator Image Comics $19.95 (184p) ISBN 978-1-58240-309-0
In what looks like yet another vision of the future in which the sun never shines, all the residents of a city that vaguely resembles New York are mystified by the seeming murder of one member of the popular superhero trio, the Supergroup FG-3....
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Brian Michael Bendis, Author, Michael Avon Oeming, Author, Michael Avon Oeming, Illustrator , illus. by Michael Avon Oeming. Image $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-58240-269-7
Comics about comics continue to multiply with varying degrees of success. Here, the Eisner Award–winning Powers series cleverly adds noirish suspense and pathos to its own postmodern wink in the genre's mirror. In an unnamed city where...
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Brian Michael Bendis, Author, Mark Millar, Author Marvel Comics $12.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7851-1393-5
Continuing Marvel's relaunching of classic characters minus the baggage of 40-plus years of continuity, this volume of the re-tooled Fantastic Four collects the first six issues of their ""Ultimate"" version, updating story elements that took only...
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Brian Michael Bendis, Author, Mark Millar, Author, Marvel Comics, Author . Marvel $12.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-7851-1219-8
This alternate version of the X-Men saga is primarily a showcase for the ever-popular Wolverine character. In the hands of writer Bendis (mistakenly credited as Mark Millar on the credit page), the story becomes a tour of New York City and its...
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Brian Michael Bendis, Author, Alex Maleev, Illustrator . Marvel $13.99 (120p) ISBN 978-0-7851-1337-9
Bendis's lengthy, award-winning crime saga comes to a close in this volume, as story lines conclude and questions are answered. Bendis has transformed Daredevil into a gritty crime novel, focusing on the inner life of the brooding hero while...
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Brian Michael Bendis, Author, Michael Moorcock, Author Mojo Press $20.95 (250p) ISBN 978-1-885418-17-3
This engrossing miscellany of essays, reviews and short stories abounds with fascinating commentaries on popular culture, and with incongruities not unlike those that distinguish Moorcock's fantasy fiction (Blood, the Elric saga). Chief among the...
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Brian Michael Bendis, Author, Brian Michael Bendis, Text by (Art/Photo Books), Alex Maleev, Illustrator . Marvel $25 (176p) ISBN 978-0-7851-2838-0
Based on the famous video-game series Halo and created by the Eisner-winning team of writer Brian Michael Bendis (Powers ) and artist Alex Maleev (Daredevil ), this book shows the Covenant invasion of Earth from the perspective of civilians on the...
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Brian Michael Bendis, Author, Mark Bagley, Illustrator, Trevor Hairsine, Illustrator Marvel Comics $17.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7851-1312-6
One of the things that has made Spider-Man such an enduring character is the gang of colorful misfits who make up his rogues' gallery. In this tale, his five greatest foes-Doctor Octopus, the Green Goblin, Electro, Craven the Hunter and Sandman-have
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Edited by William Dennis, J.H. Williams III, and Wendy Wright-Williams. Image, $19.99 trade paper (331p) ISBN 978-1-5343-0822-0
Including 95 comics by nearly 200 creators, this massive, powerful volume documents a wide array of voices and stories raised in protest against gun violence, created as a response to the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas. Eyewitness Lee...
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Brian Michael Bendis and Stephen Byrne. Dark Horse, $24.99 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-1-5067-2946-6
Bendis (the Ultimate Spider-Man series) and Byrne (the Legion of Super-Heroes series) team up for a sci-fi allegory in the vein of Blade Runner, with resonant themes but an overwritten script. In a futuristic technocratic world, Joy Corrigan is an...
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Brian Michael Bendis et al. DC, $24.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-4012-8872-3
The Man of Tomorrow again flies high in this promising relaunch by Bendis (the Alias series). As the city of Metropolis is plagued by suspicious fires and the murder of a low-level mobster, Superman becomes the prime suspect when he’s accused (by a...
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Brian Michael Bendis and André Lima Araújo. Abrams ComicArts, $24.99 (144p) ISBN 978-1-4197-6169-0
Bendis (the Daredevil series) and Araújo (A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance) launch this lavishly illustrated sci-fi/fantasy adventure at top speed and never slow down. In a future where the rules of reality have turned inside out, Boldon, a gung-ho...
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Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. Dark Horse, $19.99 trade paper (248p) ISBN 978-1-5067-3027-1
In this lightning-paced but dramatically muddled alternate history from Eisner winners Bendis and Oeming (the Powers series), the scion of a New York Mafia family is framed for the murder of a senator just days after becoming a made man. A paper-thin
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Brian Michael Bendis and Jacob Edgar. Dark Horse, $24.99 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-1-5067-2991-6
In this welcome deconstruction of mainstream comics tropes from Eisner winner Bendis (the New Avengers series) and Edgar (the Batman Adventures series), a superhero team is destined to defeat evil—if they can get their act together. Wilson, “Keeper...
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Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev. Dark Horse, $24.99 trade paper (196p) ISBN 978-1-5067-3049-3
Frequent collaborators Bendis (the Ultimate Spider-Man series) and Maleev (the Daredevil series) craft a labyrinthine revenge caper modeled after a Hollywood-style heist. A biracial teen girl named Masterpiece Lawford (she prefers “Emma”) gets...
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