Bendis

POSTED BY: salvador
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 14:42
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SALVADOR

Thursday, April 7, 2005 11:52 AM

please don't hurt me if this has been posted somewhere else before...
...but does anyone else reckon that the killing of Bendis (the browncoat that along with Mal is 'too pretty to die')in the ep 'Serenity' is a lighthearted jab (from Joss) at Brian Michael Bendis, super-prolific comicbook writer?

dawn: i gave birth to a pterodactyl
anya: oh my god! did it sing?

THIEFJEHAT

Thursday, April 7, 2005 9:45 PM

I never made that connection but it certainly makes sense.

Do not fear me. Ours is a peaceful race, and we must live in harmony.

SPOOKYJESUS

Thursday, April 7, 2005 9:56 PM

"lighthearted jab"

I did think this at the time but.....I don't know how much of a jab or what would be a point.

Maybe it's just a handy name to pull - a surname that sounds good on it's own.

I think Brian and Joss get on in any case - Joss pitched in some ideas for the overall arc of this summer's House of M cross over.

SALVADOR

Friday, April 8, 2005 9:53 AM

i just thought that now that joss is a comic writer extroadinaire, it would be humorous that he'd go after the 'hardest workin man in the biz'

dawn: i gave birth to a pterodactyl
anya: oh my god! did it sing?

DIZ

Friday, April 8, 2005 2:35 PM

Always figured he was named for BMB, but it never crossed my mind that killing him was a "jab". Always just thought of the name as a "wink".

DIRTYBROWNCOAT

Wednesday, April 27, 2005 2:42 PM

I figured he was named for Brian Michael as well, but then again, I picked up the box set AFTER he hit it big at Marvel.

Maybe Joss was mad at Bendis about the "Avengers Disassembled" storyline and decided to take it out on one of his characters...

Simon: You...you came for us.
Mal: You're on my crew.
Simon: Right. I guess I just didn't...you don't even like me.
Mal: You're on my crew. Why we still talking about this?
-Safe