Earlier this year, Bendis announced that he and artist Alex Maleev will be leaving Daredevil soon (they will work together on a new Spider-Woman series), and speculation had begun on the next creative team. Most of that speculation centered on recent Marvel exclusives, writer Ed Brubarker and artist Michael Lark (who worked together on DC's Gotham Central), but until this weekend, no one knew for sure.
At WizardWorld Chicago on Friday, Bendis confirmed that Brubaker/Lark are indeed the next Daredevil team. From the Marvel Knights panel report at Newsarama:
Brubaker and Lark take over the series in February ’06. Quesada acknowledged it was one of the worst kept secrets in comics, but that they couldn’t think of anyone else other than Brubaker and Lark to take over the series. He added Brubaker’s pitch contains enough material for at least 2 years worth of stories. Bendis touched on something he said in his own Q&A earlier that day that his last story arc “The Murdock Papers” ends rather uniquely and would only work if the writer that followed him on DD agreed to pick up on some elements from that story, and the Brubaker was up to the task and his first story arc will follow-up on it as well as kick off his own run.
Brubaker give his own take on the transition here.
I love Brubaker's Gotham Central stories (the curent arc, his last, is co-written with Greg Rucka) and his Sleeper series for Wildstorm, and Lark is a great, gritty street crime artist, so it looks like I will keep buying Daredevil trades.
And Bendis isn't leaving Ultimate Spider-Man anytime soon either.
It's a shame I've lost complete interest in the regular version of Spider-Man. Maybe "The Other" storyline will bring me back. There's a panel on that today. Plus, another favorite writer, Peter David, is doing a new Spider-Man title, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (which unfortunately kicks off as part of "The Other" crossover), so maybe I'll be buying that in trade as well.
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