New chapters will be serialized weekly through Bendis' Jinxworld newsletter on Substack, and Dark Horse Comics (the current home to Bendis' long-running Jinxworld imprint) will eventually publish a print edition.ġ5 Images Bendis' Role on Turn Off the Dark The other key difference is that this Fortune & Glory is a digital-first comic. I just called Bill and I said, 'Hey, do you want to draw my bald head like 700 more times? I mean, that's really what the job is.' I'm very clear.

And then teaming up with Bill, who I did not know, allowed me to emote and him to draw it, and it worked out really well.'īendis adds, 'And so when it became clear that this wasn't for me to draw this time, I called Bill immediately. 'And it was very helpful to me because it was so personal, I didn't know how to do it. 'Our friend George at the New York Times had put me and Bill together years ago to write and draw a mini comic about my memorances of Stan Lee for his obituary,' Bendis says. He's instead teaming with artist Bill Walko, who previously illustrated one of the more emotionally challenging assignments of Bendis' career. One major difference this time is that Bendis won't be drawing Fortune & Glory: The Musical. I don't have a third act.''īendis continues, 'Even with the Spider-Man: The Musical stuff, I needed genuinely years of perspective to go, 'Oh, yeah, that's a chapter you can write about that, that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you learn something. And we have an awesome director and awesome people attached, but you kind of get it as a storyteller, and just having written other autobiographies, you kind of get a sense of, 'Yeah, I'm not, the story isn't done yet. And we're still pals and that's awesome, but it's not over yet.

'And it's fun to just ride the rollercoaster with my friend Mark. 'Yesterday we just re-signed the option with Working Title for Torso, which - ding, ding, ding, - is year 28 for the option at Torso, which is wonderful and a blessing,' Bendis tells IGN. But with Torso still stuck in development limbo after all these years, there there was never really an ending to that version of Fortune & Glory 2. Written and illustrated by Bendis himself, the book takes a frank and humorous look at the many pitfalls in his ill-fated journey to adapt his crime comic Goldfish to film.īendis has been teasing a sequel for many years, though his original plan was to chronicle the similarly rocky road to adapting his and Marc Andreyko's comic Torso. The original Fortune & Glory dates back to early in Bendis' comic book career, a time when he was beginning to make a name for himself in the indie world and at Marvel and attempting to parlay that success into Hollywood stardom.

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