Brian Michael Bendis Announces Two New Creator-Owned Series at DC Comics

Brian Michael Bendis started his writing career doing autonomous creator - owned comics and , no matter how liberal he got in the domain of large - scurf superheroics , he always kept a hand in that realm . That custom will continue at DC Comics , his newfangled publication home , which will be put out his all - new on-going series Cover and Pearl .

Created under Bendis ’ creator - owned Jinxworld impression , the two books announced atThe Hollywood Reporterwill reunite Bendis with some of his frequent collaborators . Cover is a undercover agent - fiction serial centered on a pop comedian artist who gets recruited to be an intelligence service operative , drawn by David Mack , who work with Bendis on Daredevil . Michael Gaydos — who co - create Jessica Jones with Bendis — will be handling the visuals for Pearl , which is focused on a Yakuza tattoo artist who settle in love with her counterpart from a rival crime family .

Here ’s what had to Bendis say about Pearl :

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We have a tattoo artist with a very particular skin experimental condition that will make the tattoos on her body very alone — and you ’ll see in the very first way out what ’s unique about her and the way she makes her tattoos and what her tattoos on her look and feel like . But it also tells the fib of two masses who are bear in this office that have grown up and discover out they may be very unlike than the situation they were bear in . I see this drop dead on a caboodle lately , more than ever before , where people grow up and go “ OK , I was born into this spot , but I really feel I might be a different variety of person , ” and get hold a way . Or they ramp up their own house or they make their own happiness , and that ’s the story we are going to state .

And on the thoughtfulness he and Gaydos made in a post - Jessica Jones world :

It ’s a very different story , but it came from the same inspiration . Jessica herself is from the real globe and tangible - world inspirations . I said if we do something together , it has to occur from the same kind of inhalation , because people will know the difference . As before long as this fall into our laps , we were like “ Yeah that ’s it , we ’re doing it . ” We did n’t want to do “ Here ’s Jessica Jones at DC ” or “ a Jessica Jones we own . ” We wanted to do something completely unequalled and unlike , with completely different visual touches . You have to recall , Mike has drawn Jessica Jones ’ face like eight billion times . He is looking for something different to draw , and that ’s my responsibility , is to give him things that are equally cool

William Duplessie