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    Bruce Wayne, who witnessed the murder of his billionaire parents as a child, swore to avenge their deaths. He trained extensively to achieve mental and physical perfection, mastering martial arts, detective skills, and criminal psychology. Costumed as a bat to prey on the fears of criminals, and utilizing a high-tech arsenal, he became the legendary Batman.

    Wouldn't Bendis make an incredible Batman writer?

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    SOG7dc

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    What do you think?

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    #3  Edited By kidchipotle
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    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

    NO

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    Jonny_Anonymous

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    @frogdog said:

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

    NO

    Why not? You never read Daredevil?

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    Squalleon

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    I really don't know people like both his Moon Knight and Daredevil run so it is far from impossible as many want to think.

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    @arturocalakayvee: oh he a writter?

    if so what has he written?

    He's one of the biggest writers in Marvel of the last decade+. He's written all of Ultimate Spider-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy, All-New X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, Avengers, New Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Avengers Assemble, Dark Avengers, Avengers vs X-Men, numerous other events, DareDevil, Moon Knight, and about one thousand other books.

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    I really don't know people like both his Moon Knight and Daredevil run so it is far from impossible as many want to think.

    A lot of people on here have this stigma against BMB but he's actually a pretty good writer. A great one, even. He definitely has his faults but overall he's written some pretty great books.

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    @jonny_anonymous:

    Daredevil =/=batman

    Bendis is terrible writing characters with established continuity.

    Also his dialogue would be out of place with batman

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    #11  Edited By Jonny_Anonymous

    @frogdog said:

    @jonny_anonymous:

    Daredevil =/=batman

    Bendis is terrible writing characters with established continuity.

    Also his dialogue would be out of place with batman

    Yea but Bendis is fantastic at righting noir and Batman doesn't have any established history anymore anyway

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    @arturocalakayvee: hmmm you say biggest writer but I'm still tigure what trades I've read with his name on it any particular story line with his name on it?

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    He already did in Batman Chronicles #21.
    BB

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    I think he'd be a better fit for Superman or Flash IMO

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    @arturocalakayvee: hmmm you say biggest writer but I'm still tigure what trades I've read with his name on it any particular story line with his name on it?

    If you've read anything Avengers related from 2004-Marvel NOW you've read BMB

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    @jonny_anonymous:

    Exactly. Batman needs some noir and mystery and I think Bendis is perfect for that

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    @frogdog said:

    @jonny_anonymous: batman inc is part of new 52 batman continuity.

    Only because DC couldn't stop Morrison from writing it, other than that they just cherry pick what they want to acknowledge

    I think he'd be a better fit for Superman or Flash IMO

    Noway, Bendis is great at writing noir, he's uber-crap at trying to write the lighter heroes.

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    #20  Edited By fodigg

    I wouldn't want to see it because I think his style is overly represented because he's so prolific. Otherwise I'd have to hear his pitch for it.

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    I honestly think he'd be solid for batman. I've enjoyed pretty much everything Bendis has done except for his Avengers/event stuff

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    @frogdog said:

    @jonny_anonymous:

    When it comes to batman, it isn't cherry picking events

    Yes it is, loads of stuff has been introduced in Batman Inc that's been ignored by the DCU at large not to mention Snyder is basically rewriting Batman's entire back story.

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    Jeff Lemire :D

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    Mark Waid would be a better choice.

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    #28  Edited By Jonny_Anonymous

    No, he would be terrible. He's a hack.

    Read Daredevil.

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    @jonny_anonymous said:

    @theacidskull said:

    No, he would be terrible. He's a hack.

    Read Daredevil.

    Frank Miller had good stories too, look at him now. Bendis is a hack.

    And yet Bendis can still write a great DD since End of Days came out last year, Bendis will always be able to write great noir (look at his indy stuff as well) even if his other superhero stuff is crap.

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    #34  Edited By Jonny_Anonymous

    @jonny_anonymous said:

    @theacidskull said:

    @jonny_anonymous said:

    @theacidskull said:

    No, he would be terrible. He's a hack.

    Read Daredevil.

    Frank Miller had good stories too, look at him now. Bendis is a hack.

    And yet Bendis can still write a great DD since End of Days came out last year, Bendis will always be able to write great noir (look at his indy stuff as well) even if his other superhero stuff is crap.

    Mhhh I guess that he can, but his current work is terrible, I've tried getting into his current series and nothing seemed good to me.

    That's because he cant write big, blockbuster action team comics no matter how hard he tries

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    #35  Edited By TheBlueAngel93

    Honestly, I'd rather have him write Nightwing. I feel he could write a good Dick Grayson.

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    That would be interesting to see what he could come up with.

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    #37  Edited By LordoftheNorth

    Iam willing to give anyone a shot so if he wanted to do it i would have no problem with it maybe get him on to do some work on Eternal i mean it is a weekly series for the whole freaking year so why not grab some guest writers

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    #39  Edited By Night Thrasher

    @frogdog said:

    @jonny_anonymous: batman inc is part of new 52 batman continuity.

    Only because DC couldn't stop Morrison from writing it, other than that they just cherry pick what they want to acknowledge

    @night_thrasher said:

    I think he'd be a better fit for Superman or Flash IMO

    Noway, Bendis is great at writing noir, he's uber-crap at trying to write the lighter heroes.

    Actually Bendis is a 'character writer' more than anything. His usage of dialogue would be great for Superman, especially with interactions between Clark and Lois or Perry. And with the eclectic Rogues of Flash, I think Bendis could strike gold.

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    If this is the Bendis who wrote Daredevil, yeah.

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    If BMB wrote it the same way he wrote Daredevil, he'd make a good Batman scribe

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    #43  Edited By ULTRAstarkiller

    @frogdog said:

    @jonny_anonymous:

    Daredevil =/=batman

    Bendis is terrible writing characters with established continuity.

    Also his dialogue would be out of place with batman

    Yea but Bendis is fantastic at righting noir and Batman doesn't have any established history anymore anyway

    This

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    @jonny_anonymous: Then why on Earth do Marvel keep giving him those gigs instead of focusing his efforts on their noir comics?

    And honestly, I wouldn't want Bendis on Batman despite however good his noir writing may be. I simply don't trust his writing at all.

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    #45  Edited By Jonny_Anonymous

    @lvenger said:

    @jonny_anonymous: Then why on Earth do Marvel keep giving him those gigs instead of focusing his efforts on their noir comics?

    And honestly, I wouldn't want Bendis on Batman despite however good his noir writing may be. I simply don't trust his writing at all.

    'Coz Bendis is a big name and no matter how well written a street crime book is, it's not going to sell as much as the big time books.

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    ...Bendis on Batman, why not? I have just read through the Volume 1 book of his Daredevil run and really enjoyed it. Not really enough Daredevil action, but a very good read for the more "mature" reader, shall we say! IMO he can write a good story about a streetleveller and I also like his Spiderman books, so he could probably do it.

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    #47  Edited By Blackdog2009

    F$&&ck NO!!!!

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    #48  Edited By PunyParker

    @sog7dc said:

    What do you think?

    As a hardcore Bendis fan......i don't know......

    Like can anyone imagine Frank Miller (os the 80s of cource) writing Spider-Man?.....well im something like that with Bendis.....

    Loeb writes a fantastic Batman,but a weak Spider-Man......i have other examples.

    EDIT: another question,of the same sort......you see Snyder writing a good Spider-Man?...

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    I agree with previous comment that Bendis could write a good Nightwing, I would be interested in a Catwoman, G.C.P.D and Red Robin Solo title. Bendis teamed with an A-list artist could write a Batman run at least on par with Scott Snyder.

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    I've read very few stories by Bendis but if he's good at Noir style stories and is a 'character writer' then he seems a good fit for Batman.

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    Mark Waid would be a better choice.

    Jeff Lemire :D

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