EW recently caught up with Bendis to discuss the two comics.
It’s such a unique, different experience than I’ve had before," Bendis tells EW.
They literally said, ‘Bring your books here, make these comics, we want them.’
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“Pearl is an assassin with an albino skin condition.
Sometimes you just need that one other person to make that bold, brave step for yourself.
That is what the first issue is about.”
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UnlikePearl,Scarletwill be a relaunch rather than a premiere.
Obviously, the cultural climate has changed a lot in the years since Bendis began writingScarlet.
“This is the most unique experience I’ve had as a storyteller.
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“It was written before Occupy Wall Street had even started.
I imaginedScarletas a book Paddy Chayefsky might write.
That’s what startedScarlet.
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I thought I was 10 years ahead of anything like this ever happening.
Then all of a sudden, the world shifted.
If Chayefsky had decades, I was about three weeks ahead of the curve.
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But it felt like I was writing honest, and that’s a good feeling.”
What would that look like today?
It’s shocking to me hownotsci-fi it feels right now.
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I don’t want it to happen, but I also can’t stop writing about.
It feels like an answer to what has happened to us as a country and a world.”
Pearl#1 andScarlet#1 are both due out this August from DC.
Check out preview images from Gaydos and Maleev above.
