Brian Michael Bendis on life at DC: Batman didn’t lure him; “I wanted Superman“

Nathan Mattise

AUSTIN, Texas-Just about half a year ago, a simple job change rocked the comics world. Brian Michael Bendis, the longtime Marvel writer who created Jessica Jonesand wrote for all the company's big heroes from Spider-Manto The Avengers,decided to switch sides. In a November 7 tweet, Bendis announced to the world that he'd be joining DC Comics. And this weekend at the South by Southwest conference, he sat on a panel with DC bigwigs from artist Jim Lee to writer Frank Miller to discuss the recently turned 80-years-old icon he'll work on: Superman.

"I'm a little Jewish boy from Cleveland, and in Cleveland, you grow up and are told, 'Rock n' Roll and Superman were born here'-that's all we have plus some decent pizza," Bendis told the crowd. "Everyone thought maybe I came [to DC] to do Batman, but all I wanted was Superman."

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