Unlike many fans, I think BMB is a good writer. Powers is an example of great story-telling by the guy and although his Marvel work can be hit or miss, I think he's among the upper echelon of comic book writers.

That being said, the guy writes TOO many books.

If I'm not mistaken, Bendis writes all the Avengers books, some Ultimate Marvel books and his own creator works every month. And as a result, I think there's definitely some shoddy work out there...especially since some of those Avengers books have entire issues where NOTHING happens but stilted chatter between the characters (HATE HATE HATE his style of having multiple word balloons interrupting each other).

I'm not a Bendis hater. I'm actually a fan. Nevertheless, I think writing too many characters a month dilutes the quality of the books he works on.

Anyone else agree?

I like Bendis, but the dude has to take a break from the Avengers or stop writing them all together. He did much more harm than good there.

Utimate Spider-Man was great back when it started. I stopped reading after, like, issue 70

He really needs to stop writing the Avengers, or at least one of the books. He was alright when he started and I liked him bringing in characters like The Hood, but he's getting tiring now, and it's like every other panel he has to make a character say a joke or something immature now. It's a shame that more people preferred his stuff to the Dan Slott stuff (which while not perfect, at least felt like the Avengers), and he still keeps getting high ratings. I'm glad he's not writing Bucky anymore. He wrote him as a complete noob.

He needs to stop writing in 616 altogether. He can go write in Ultimate, just stay the hell away from the real characters.

He's like Fraction, only to a worse degree. He does well with characters that don't really have an established continuity because there's nothing there for him to screw up and he gets to write his own little fan-fictions (because let's face it, that's what he writes) without utterly destroying 616 characters. 

It's called greed, ego and not knowing your limitations. I think the only reason Powers holds up (mostly) is due to Oeming being able to rein Bendis in.

Bendis wants to be a black man and have anal sex with Jessica Jones?

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I wanted to talk about Alias. There was a scene early on in the first issue that I found particularly disturbing. I couldn’t get my head around it. It was the sex scene between Jessica Jones and Luke Cage.

Yes, and by the way the novelty of saying “the sex scene with Luke Cage” has not worn off. It’s hilarious that those words are even spoken in the English language.

Well, it’s really disturbing. She has anal sex with a black man in order to feel degraded.

I don’t know if he has sex with her anally.

It looked like it.

It could be. But it’s not about him being a black man. I can one thousand percent absolutely promise you that was not my agenda or the case. It had nothing to do with him being a black man. It could easily have been Wonder Man. It’s just not the relationship, how it was written. And I can only promise you that. It is interesting that that element of it still stirs in some people. It’s why the book was not printed at its original printer which was shocking to us as well. I didn’t think that that was a problem. I know that some people, particularly friends of mine, had an issue with a woman punishing herself with sex or whatever that sexual act was. They would come up to me and go, “Women don’t do that.” I would go, “No, not all women, but some women and some men do that.” And they’d say, “Well, that’s true.” It’s weird the way people take that. “I’m not talking about you. I’m talking about her.” I absolutely have known people who do that and I know some people who continue to do that well past an age where you think they would stop. And I wanted to write about it. And I am shocked I get to write about it in a Marvel comic book.

I can promise you as far as race relations are concerned, [and] I’ve proven this over the course of the relationship which has gone all the way to a marriage and parenting, that race is one thousand percent not an issue in their life as much as it is an issue for other people. But it’s not an issue for them. And it’s not an issue for me in my life. I have a multi-racial family.

http://www.bookslut.com/features/2009_02_014023.php

http://www.i-mockery.com/comics/longbox6/

And again, Bendis isn't exactly a bad writer. But he should never, ever be compared to the likes of someone like Alan Moore, who I've seen him compared to several times. Bendis is a case of a decent writer who blew up too big too fast, and I think the quality of his writing has taken a severe nose-dive as a result of his newfound popularity. Compare his early graphic novel Torso with his recent work in Ultimate Spider-Man and I wager you'll find a world of difference between their levels of quality. Bendis needs to get over his own popularity and get back into the creativity that he used to be capable of.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans brag about how Joss Whedon is so good at writing dialogue that you can often take a single line by a character, out of context, and still identify who said the line. Even if you haven't seen the episode it came from. There are online quizzes out there based on this premise. My argument is that with Bendis's dialogue you won't know your Luke Cage from your Spider-Man. So in the interest of testing that theory, I've created this brief BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS DIALOGUE QUIZ! Enjoy!