Nrama: To wrap up, there's obviously been a lot of speculation and guessing — even during this interview — about what you might be doing next after Avengers...
Bendis: I have so much Avengers left to do in the next few months. And yet I'm already working on what I'm doing next, which people don't know about. I'm going to wait until the time has come.
There's been an overwhelmingly very nice wave of niceness headed at me about all the different projects, and if I say it every day it sounds fake, so I don't know when to say how much I appreciate it. People are being very devoted to books that are sometimes very hard to find. So as we wrap up Avengers and I start what will obviously be the next phrase of what I do at Marvel, I just want to thank everybody for their open-mindedness and sometimes patience, and willingness to have fun. Literally every hour someone writes something nice about Miles Morales to me. It's really, really sweet. As we move on to these new projects, which I hope is a continuation at least thematically of what I feel about these superheroes, and superheroes in general, and these characters, I just want to say thanks.
Nrama: When do you think we might hear definitively about your post-Avengers projects?
Bendis: What solicitations just came out?
Nrama: August.
Bendis: August. So... pretty soon. Honestly, pretty soon. It's going to hit solicitations very shortly. Dun dun dun.
Beyond what I'm doing, what's coming at Marvel after Avengers vs. X-Men is, on paper, what Marvel does better than anybody. It's very exciting stuff. I got an Excel sheet of everything, I was looking at it: "That just looks strong as hell. That looks killer." I'm very excited about all of it, and my place in it.
I wrote a list of the books I'm working on, and the people I'm working on it with, and I could not imagine a better situation for myself. I really was like, "Wow, that's amazing;" and it's all shipping at once. We'll talk in a few months and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.
