With Marvel writer Brian Michael Bendis attending this weekend's Special Edition: NYC comic convention, we hopped on the phone to talk to him about his appearance at the comics-only show, plus we asked him about the end of his X-Men run, the reception to the Powers TV show, and his thoughts on the newly released All-New All-Different Marvel teaser

For those wanting to attend Special Edition: NYC, know that the event recently put up 2000 extra tickets for sale

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Well, a few things. Yeah, I don't do a lot of shows. Some people are confused by that. It really comes from the fact that I have four little children and four full-time jobs. Most of the time it's just better to stay at home doing your work. But we did do New York Comic Con last fall. We debuted Powers, and they gave us the big room. They were super cool hosts.When they offered for me to come back for the Special Edition, which is comics-focused, I was very happy to do so. I heard it was a great show from the people who were there last year.Then it just so happened -- I'd already agreed to do the show -- it worked out that Marvel was gearing up to make their post-Secret Wars announcement, of which I'm a part. The timing of that worked out perfectly for us to announce our first big post-Secret Wars hoo-ha. So it was a nice everything-working-out-well kind of thing.Yeah, right. We've got announcements, we've got artwork. We've been working diligently behind the scenes on our new projects, very quietly, under the cone of silence, for many months.Our first one will debut at the first panel at the show on Saturday, and that is cool! That makes me happy. I like when we can bring stuff, you know what I mean?I do, and I know sound like a bit of a hypocrite because I have a TV show that I would gladly promote at this show, so forgive me that.But I think everyone knows I'm a comics creator first, by a mile. Having watched other shows push creators into the background where they should be in the foreground, it's always been upsetting.So this kind of thing I gleefully support as being part of something that puts the backbone of all of these TV shows and all of these movies. It all starts here, and it should be celebrated. I'm happy to be a part of that. I sincerely hope that it's the beginning of a slingshot effect, where people realize the draw is really the creators that do this whole thing.Yeah, absolutely.The first reaction is always like, "If the movie made a billion dollars, why aren't a billion people reading?" Well, there aren't a billion readers who read anything. [Laughs] But yeah, the trickle-down effect has been tremendous.What I like about the trickle-down effect is, no matter how much promotion certain projects get, the audience decides what they want to read. Even think about the first Avengers movie, and then the trickle-down effect happened on the Infinity Gauntlet trade. I think people got a sense of that. I think that was the biggest seller off of the first Avengers movie. That mainstream audience found that collection on their own. "Who the hell is Thanos? Who do I read? Read this!" And that thing sold so many copies, right?I just Facebooked the other day, I walked into Barnes & Noble, and there was Powers on the same shelf as The Walking Dead. I'm like, "There you go! That's what you want to see!" So yeah, the trickle-down effect does happen. It's quite lovely.It's out! I think people believe I have a TV show -- that's exciting. We had a tremendously robust first season, of which our audience built and built. The opposite happens in comics, where a comic debuts fine and trickles down. In the real world, things can trickle upward. [Laughs] We trickled upward the entire season, and then they pulled the trigger on a second season.So I will be going right from the convention floor Sunday afternoon to the airport, and right to Los Angeles to start working on the second season, the very next day. So we're very excited, and everybody's on the same page about what exactly that second season is going to look like, what it's going to feel like. We're totally jazzed.