Also, I resigned my contract with Marvel, so I have things to write. IGN: Do you know how much longer you're going to be writing Miles for? Bendis: Indefinitely. That was a bunch of mixed metaphors there, but you understand. Now we have our baby back, so there you go. So I didn't want to go, and then with Sara there it was like the family was reunited. Like, why would I leave now? Now you have a Miles who has just survived his first giant Marvel event, and those events are real game-changers for characters, particularly for his, and just this idea of how hard it would be to maintain that balance between being a superhero and not being a superhero under the shadow of Peter Parker, under the shadow of being among the youngest Avengers - all these things are kind of what I like to write about the most. And the reason why was, it seemed like things were just getting interesting. But yeah, by the end of the day I was locked in. She said "yes" immediately, and we'll get to our other stuff some other time - or not. We thought maybe you and Sara would be - bring Sara back." Sara and I actually had other plans, but I kind of felt, just from the emails between Sara and I and how immensely proud she is of having co-created Miles, that maybe she would want to do this. We didn't hire anybody to write that book. I think I'd like to stay." And they said, "Oh, we didn't take you seriously. Not only was I very moved by all the plans they had for Miles, I was like, "Well, that's a whole different deal." I forget who I turned to - Axel or someone - I said, "I didn't know all this was going on. So not only is Miles Spider-Man in the Marvel Universe if you think about it, he's a much more traditional Spider-Man figure than he is a high school kid wrestling between being a superhero and being a high school kid and living in New York and, you know, pretty much staying in New York like Peter used to. When we got there, I found out Miles was an Avenger, which I did not know, and I found out that Peter Parker had aimed for greener pastures in a much a more international-flavored world.
So we went to the next retreat, and I had my head buried in the sand, and I wasn't really paying attention to what some other people were doing until we got there. I had quietly said, "Okay, I guess that's the place to stop." Bringing Miles here, that had felt like a big mountain climbed, and, you know, we have to leave books eventually - even I have to leave books eventually. IGN Comics: What made you want to keep telling the story of Miles Morales? What story did you want to tell, instead of handing off the reins? Bendis: Truthfully - and some people have told me they don't believe me - I had resigned from the book.
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