And so I let it sit for a while to see, to see if I still think it’s funny in a little while - and I did.

Sometimes it’s a very fine line between a good idea and a stupid idea. So literally one day, I’m just sitting on the porch, thinking about The Matrix sequels and thinking about … what if all the people that were “the ones” that were told they were the one had to team up with the other ones and defeat the real one. There’s always been this trope going throughout my life and I always found it delightful. I just bide by every time there’s a chosen one from The Matrix to The Golden Child with Eddie Murphy. Can you tell me a bit about the creation of that story and the characters that are involved there?īendis: I think from like the beginning of me taking in media as a young man up until today, I have found a concept of the chosen one in mythology to be hilarious, and often I don’t know why. Nerds & Beyond: One of your latest series The Ones just released its second issue with Dark Horse last month, and another issue is coming this week. I plan to take full advantage of it as long as I can. Miles Morales alone is one of the greatest things that ever happened in my life and it’s out there happening right now - to have that continue, to have his stories keep going, while me and my friends are trying new stuff is quite a nice place to have yourself. I can understand from an artistic perspective getting your passion projects, the things that you’ve created, but at the same time, you’re getting validation from other passion projects that aren’t necessarily yours in entirety like the content that you’ve created. Nerds & Beyond: It does, it totally does. But it took me a long time to see that - all that work is out there enjoying its own space and you can just enjoy it with along with it. I get the best of both worlds for a while when I can take full advantage of that.

So since that’s already out there, I can let that stuff be while I’m creating new stuff. There are a lot of people reading my Spider-Man and Daredevil stuff for the first time - it’s out there brand new for people. I have a lot of work out there that’s connecting with people as brand-new work.

Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis