We spoke with BRIANMBENDIS about launching his new ABRAMSbooks graphic novel fantasy series Phenomena with erdna11
Brian Michael Bendis and André Lima Araújo are introducing readers to a new fantasy epic called Phenomena. Published through Abrams ComicArts, Phenomena: The Golden City of Eyes is the first book in a trilogy featuring three characters who inexplicably meet and go on a globetrotting adventure across what's left of their planet. One of those locations is the mysterious Golden City of Eyes, which Book One is named after.
Brian Michael Bendis: Well, André was working with some of my friends, particularly Sam Humphries, who is one of my close friends in comics, and they were doing some awesome work together years ago, and I was just like,"Yeah, I just need to clock it." But I also have a tendency, if someone's working with someone, I don't try to glom in on it, because that can be mistaken as rude behavior, so I try to be polite about it.
I always thought of that, I always thought of how amazing it was, and because there's some DNA connection between Darrow and André, it made me think of that, and I think,"Once again, Frank Miller to the rescue with the philosophy that will get me where I need to go." And I said,"I think if I apply that philosophy here, we might have something." And that's what we did.
Well, no, you'll find out that he's actually a very special creature in his world. He basically is a superhero of another place, and we'll find out through the volumes of Phenomena why that all happened, what actually happened to the world that it's like this now, but we have almost a reluctant mythological creature of heroism, basically babysitting these two ne'er-do-wells of the Phenomena world.
It was funny, I had a different voice in mind, and then when he handed in those sketches, another voice came into my head that surprised both of us. It was a much more aggravated voice like,"God, stop talking!" And that voice popped into my head. That was not my original, but I was thrilled. That was when both André and I, and not to speak for him, but I know this one is where we both went,"Oh, we've got something.
I have on other projects as well, ruminating on truth, what truth means to people, and how truth gets co-opted, or abused, or ignored, and I'm not even talking about anything political that's going on in this world, this has been going on for a while. It's certainly a reflection of our times during the pandemic, when a lot of us were hopping on Zoom, just to reconnect with anybody and everybody, and feeling that,"Oh yeah, I need these connections. I need to hear what's happened to you to make me feel how I feel about what's happening to me.
Whatever you think it is, it's that times a bunch. It's really exciting, it's been going on the entire time. Again, we're working on Volume Two as you're just discovering Volume One. Even today, there are review copies out, and people are getting their copies from DragonCon, we're getting a lot of response, and it's all been,"Holy crap.
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