Brian Michael Bendis's new FORTUNE & GLORY: THE MUSICAL spins the tale of SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK

Since launching his Substack e-newsletter, prolific comedian creator Brian Michael Bendis has been teasing Fortune & Glory: The Musical, “a new weekly original comic bringing together Peabody award winner Brian Michael Bendis and cartoonist Bill Walko, with colors by Wes Dzioba and lettering by Josh Reed to tackle the stranger-than-fiction events behind the curtain of the pre-production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.” Good issues come to those that wait, as as we speak the Fortune & Glory Substack comedian has lastly arrived.

The official description:

In the midst of the unprecedented success of Brian Michael Bendis’s character-defining run on Ultimate Spider-Man, and the field workplace record-breaking Spider-Man movies, the author acquired a cellphone name that nobody might have predicted. Spidey was going to Broadway, and Bendis was being tapped to collaborate with rock royalty to assist the webslinger “find his voice” on stage. Could he overcome his personal ignorance about musicals, or would he exit stage left earlier than manufacturing started?

Brian Michael Bendis coyly teased:

“Years ago I did an autobiographical graphic novel called Fortune and Glory. It was about my earliest adventures in Hollywood as an independent comics creator. I neeeeever thought I would have crazier stories to tell. Then I got a call to write the now infamous Spider-Man Broadway musical. It didn’t go great. This is that story.”

According to the press launch:

Fortune & Glory: The Musical will probably be out there solely to subscribers of Bendis’s Jinxworld e-newsletter, which as well as provides subscribers a multi-media Creation, which builds upon the classes taught in his best-selling textbook, Words and Pictures, and The Masterclass, a twice-monthly Zoom class taught by Bendis himself, alongside occasional visitor lecturers and extra!

Additionally, it was beforehand introduced that the unique Fortune & Glory will return in an all-new version from Dark Horse Comics on April 5. This new commerce paperback version will embrace “the complete story from the original three-issue miniseries and features an introduction from comics and animation legend Paul Dini as well as a wealth of promotional art and interviews straight from Bendis’ archives. Written and illustrated by Bendis and colored by Matthew Wilson.”

Read Fortune & Glory: The Musical, by subscribing to the Jinxworld e-newsletter on Substack.

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