#(though i do sometimes wish/wonder what it would've been like if he'd brought her friendship with greer back instead....)

[danzafila]

Might be too charitable to him but how likely is it that Bendis would have brought back Lindsay McCabe if his Spider-Woman run wasn't canceled? He ignored her existence (having Jess erroneously assert that Carol was her best friend before being abudcted by the Skrulls) but he still referenced Jess' time in Madripoor a lot (even in her Alias appearance) so couldn't it be that he intended for an Eternal-Sunshine-esque plot due to Skrull fuckery but his run being canceled prevented that?

I am SO curious what his Spider-Woman solo would've looked like if it had been able to run longer!!

for as much crap as I'll give Bendis for some of his more ridiculed writing tendencies, I really liked his Jessica Drew writing for the most part. yeah he stuck with the new development of making Carol her best friend, but he also remembered her friendship with Logan, her relationship with Fury, her (weird pseudo-parental) antagonism with Viper, and her HYDRA/SHIELD past (even if I didn't particularly care for some of the retcons). from his writing, it seemed evident to me he had a healthy love/respect for her history and interest in delving deeper into it (rather than just using her as a fairly blank slate with no history for whatever story he wanted to tell, as many writers I think are guilty of from time to time). I absolutely wouldn't have been surprised, given all that and the fact he specifically chose to return her to Madripoor, if a reunion with Lindsay would've occurred down the line.

man, when I think of the abrupt end to Agent of S.W.O.R.D., I get so sad. he had wanted that thing for YEARS and then, when he finally got it, him and Maleev struggled like crazy to get the one single arc out before it got unceremoniously cancelled. I always thought that left him pretty burnt and kinda killed his love for writing her (which honestly I can't blame him for--that would've sucked).