Brian Michael Bendis is an American comic book writer and former artist. He has won critical acclaim, including five Eisner Awards for both his creator-owned work and his work on various Marvel Comics books.Starting out with crime and noir comics, Bendis eventually moved to mainstream superhero work. With Bill Jemas and Mark Millar, Bendis was the primary architect of the Ultimate Marvel Universe, launchingUltimate Spider-Man in 2000, on which he continues as writer to the present day. He relaunched the Avengers franchise withNew Avengers in 2004, and has also written the Marvel event storylines Secret War (2004), House of M (2005), Secret Invasion (2008), Siege (2010) and Age of Ultron (2013).In addition to writing comics, he has also worked in television, video games and film, and taught writing at Portland State University. He will begin teaching at University of Oregon starting in Fall 2013, and his bookWords for Pictures will be out in Spring 2014 from Random House

Now a tough-as-nails private investigator, Jessica Jones returns home to find a mysterious girl in a costume hiding in her apartment, but the girl flies away before Jessica can find out who she is. Through sources, Jessica discovers that her intruder is Mattie Franklin, a.k.a. Spider-Woman, a teenage super hero with a connection to Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson. Collecting: Alias 10, 16-21