That story was widely panned and rightfully shitted on, as far as Bendis ripping off Fall From Grace AND having the guy who did the leaking, be a typical Bendis Marty Stu self-insert who spent the entire arc shitting on Marvel's mobsters and bascially saying they sucked donkey balls because "they weren't realistic" mobsters like the ones in all of the rejected movie scripts Bendis tried getting made in the 90s when he was a failed screenwriter.
OH and the Marty Stu mob boss, to establish how superior he was to all of the other mob characters, in his first issue appearance, gives said rant while having Kingpin STABBED TO DEATH. Which Bendis did against the wishes of editorial wishes, forcing him to rewrite the story to upgrade Kingpin to "coma".
And this on TOP of the fact that Bendis had been YANKED OFF OF DAREDEVIL after producing ANOTHER piece of shit story on the book (the widely reviled "Wake Up" storyline, which was so fucking full of continuity errors, the Marvel had to kick him off of Daredevil until the backlash died down AND explicitly declare the story non-canon and ban Bendis from mentioning it/rushing out an inventory Spider-Man story to do damage control (which stood until Matt Fraction tacitly restored it to canon by retconning the continuity errors to make it fit into canon without overwriting the lore it was blatantly disregarding.
Or even the bullshit where Bendis outright LIED about getting permission to shit all over George Perez's White Tiger character and killing him off like he did, and the hate boner he had for Scott Lang and Geoff Johns. Or him trying to turn Ed Brubaker into his literal handpuppet and force him to ghostwrite Bendis's continuing adventures of Daredevil when he left the book.
The ONLY reason Bendis got "popular" was three fold: 1. shitting on John Byrne (which was done for pandering reasons, as Bendis is really a big fan of Byrne and made Brevoort spend YEARS begging Byrne to "forgive him" and work with him at Marvel, to which Byrne told Brevoort and Bendis to fuck off 2. getting fired from Sam and Twitch for not wanting to get involved in the McFarlane/Gaiman pissing match over Miracleman when Todd tried to make Bendis write Miracleman in the pages of Hellspawn, which Bendis quit rather than do and led to him being fired from Sam and Twitch and 3. the fact that Ultimate Spider-Man was the only Marvel book that was allowed to feature MJ and her and Spider-Man in a relationship in the early 00s and Bendis milking desperate shippers to make them thing Ultimate Spider-Man was the greatest thing since slice bread, which in turn led to Bendis dumping MJ/hooking Peter with Kitty Pryde the second JMS was allowed to reunite Peter and MJ in Amazing Spider-Man.
Bendis is trash and quite frankly, I will dance a mighty jig when he dies and drink toasts yearly to celebrate his death when that day comes.
