I find myself writing a book like this because I don't want it to happen. It's why we tell stories-to inspire each other, or cautionary tales. That is a story where once you start typing you can't stop. They share a hopefulness, they are sharing a "this can no longer stand." Superman has it easier, because he has a powerset through which he can act, where Scarlet is a single voice with nothing behind her other than her willingness to stand up for herself. I'm looking at the world through the most hopeful eye and also looking at the world in Scarlet through a more pragmatic eye.
I live in a very strange headspace, because I write both Superman and Scarlet. Marvel/ IconĪfter reading the first issue of Scarlet, I'm curious to know more about your outlook, or I should say optimism, about the world at this point in your life. 'Scarlet' published between 20 by Marvel's Icon imprint. "I like stories I get dropped into, if it's the right story," Bendis says. She challenges the status quo, and in doing so, inspires others to join her in what Bendis describes as "the next American Revolution." Scarlet #1 leaves new and familiar readers to feel out this world for themselves. Scarlet tells the story of a young woman whose life was ripped apart by police corruption. The book is the second title to launch under Bendis' creator-owned Jinxworld imprint with DC Comics this year. "It's something that's still under my skin," he says. Scarlet, first published through Marvel's Icon imprint in 2010, was born from what Bendis witnessed there: a young woman being hauled away by authorities.
"It was never anyone else but Scarlet because of what I saw that day," he remembers.
He's recalling a harrowing moment during a protest about a decade ago in downtown Portland. It haunted me," Brian Michael Bendis tells Newsweek. "Nobody in that crowd knew if that girl did something right or wrong.
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