“The extra added fear with Miles was that we were trying to be additive to Spider-Man.

“It’s genuinely scary to put out something in the world that’s brand new,” Bendis says.

In an email interview, Bendis tells Inverse how terrifying it was to introduce a character such as Miles to a well-established continuity with a massive readership. Miles was created by veteran Marvel scribe Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli. Instead, the film tells the origin story of Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore), an Afro-Latino teenager from Brooklyn who made his comic book introduction in the series Ultimate Spider-Man in 2011. Notably, Spider-Verse doesn’t center around Peter Parker, the brainy kid from Queens who becomes the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man created by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee. It’s other Oscar-nominated movies like Disney’s Incredibles 2, Wes Anderson’s Isle of Dogs, Mamoru Hosoda’s Mirai, and Disney’s Ralph Breaks the Internet, all of which are in the running against Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse for Best Animated Feature at the 91st Academy Awards on Sunday. It also notes his initial reaction upon learning that U2’s Bono and The Edge were attached to write the music.Spider-Man is up against some serious enemies this weekend, but it’s not Doc Ock or the Green Goblin. These pages depict the way producer Avi Arad recruited Bendis to work alongside Broadway director Julie Taymor. Via Jinxworld, THR released a few preview pages from the story.

It’s a sequel to the original Fortune and Glory, which Bendis wrote and illustrated about his earlier Hollywood experiences. The story will eventually be printed by Dark Horse Comics. Via The Hollywood Reporter, Bendis and artist Bill Walko will release Fortune and Glory: The Musical on Bendis’ Substack account beginning this week. Although the musical closed in the red in 2014, Bendis is using his time on the production as the basis for his next autobiographical comic. That’s what eventually brought Bendis into the orbit of the infamous Spider-Man musical, Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark. In 2000, Brian Michael Bendis and artist Mark Bagley launched Ultimate Spider-Man for Marvel, a comic book series that modernized the origin of Peter Parker and re-envisioned the hero for a new generation.

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