From Brian Michael Bendis’ report of his current NYC trip:
the avenger line ups are locked down. and all my story beats approved. spider-woman is officially on the schedule. alex [Maleev] got another gig on top of it.
Alex asks:
Can we tell them what we gonna do?
Bendis:
NO!!!!! its the big last page of SI reveal. its the whole show, man!!
…before adding:
in a million years, you’d never guess this what alex and i are doing.
Sounds like a challenge, collective web hive mind. Don’t you agree?
April 17th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
It’s pretty obvious that is Howard the Duck, if you read New Avengers, Secret War and Alias the clues were all there.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Wolverine/Spider-Man: Agents of SHIELD, Agents of Love
April 18th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Considering that Bendis has had readers speculate about the identity of Ronin twice. . . There are people who go crazy over that stuff, as the 1,218 and counting posts on the SI #1 thread (http://www.606studios.com/bendisboard/showthread.php?t=146743 ) indicate, but the reactions aren’t based on the story content. It’s a type of interactive game playing.
There’s a possibility that, in seeking to provoke reader reactions, Marvel will retcon heroes’ identities in ways that are flatly unbelievable. If that happens, I hope readers would react appropriately.
If the people at Marvel ever became tired of producing game playing scenarios and decided to quit, they could produce a final story in which it was revealed that nothing in the Marvel Universe was real. The entire universe was a virtual reality experiment funded by DARPA. But what would game players do then?
SRS
April 18th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Ooh! Ooh!
I know what Bendis is doing…continuing to screw up history and ruin the Marvel Universe for everyone!
What do I win?
April 18th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
The finale is going to be very meta when Jessica Jones is revealed to be a short, chubby skrull named B’ndis.
Brian has now accomplished the one goal he wanted to do since he started working at marvel: Marry Luke Cage and have his child.
I win!
April 18th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
All the ingredients are there: water, ramp, shark, writer on motorcycle…