C’mon Planetary 27, get here so I can quit cold turkey!

KS

Super.

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And Millar’s paralel with 2000AD doesn’t
work. Some 2000AD creators from times past
are STILL on the book (like John Wagner,
for example) and A LOT of talented
newcomers (way, WAY better than Millar and
his contemporaries were at the time) don’t
seem to be following the siren’s call of US
comics (or do it in a very limited fashion,
like Robbie Morrison, Gordon Rennie and Ian
Edginton).

What I do think is that US comics need to
be more creator-friendly, like european
comics are.

Best,
Hunter (Pedro Bouça)

I only bought it for Milk & Cheese. And Tank Girl.

Again I ask: What is it about these Brit writers and their “Legend in Their Own Minds” tendencies? Yeah, yeah..there’s arrogant jerks on both sides of the Atlantic, but there’s just something about the Brits that seems predisposed to this “Pop Cultural Oracle” schtick.

And the arrogance. Like someone’s going to actually take out a 2013 calendar, and jot down “reflect upon Millar’s 2006 predictions” when January 1st, 2013 finally rolls around?

Millar WISHES we’re all going to keep his predictions on file until 2013. He’ll be lucky if I can remember them a month from now.

Here is why Millar is wrong: There will always be around a half-million or million people in Canada/US/Europe who will want to read comics in there current form. That will keep the industry going forever. And when you think about it, a million people out of the 500 million or so that inhabit these areas is not much. Millar’s a dick.

My guess is that he’s referring to direct to DVD animation, or animation streamed on the Internet. Some form of animation, anyway.

In the last year or two we’ve seen Marvel make their deal with Lions Gate, and now DC is developing a closer relationship with the animation arm of their parent company Warner Brothers. Animated movies and series can tell the same kind of stories comics do, but with the addition of moving images and sounds that create a closer simulation of reality. And animation requires less mental effort on the part on the part of the consumer, since you don’t have to imagine the story and can instead just let it wash over you. Those are attributes that many people may find superior to comic books.

Maybe Mr. Millar is predicting that western pop culture will develop our own form of anime that’s just as popular as the stuff that comes from the east. But because comic books are sold mainly through the direct market here, they won’t survive the animation onslaught like manga has in Japan.

Get back to work!

Of course, that means you have knowledge of the future, in the future, which only means you get to say you were right.

Anyway, he’s probably talking about bookstores and book publishers which, you know, is something we all knew for the past couple of years. Mark Millar “saw the future” when he read a column written five years ago, most likely.

It’s so simple, how did no one think of it before?!?

And Spencer – You’re not supposed to give the game away like that. Try this: “By 2013, travel and limbs as we know them are doomed! Want to know why? I’ll explain in an article I haven’t written for a magazine you don’t want to buy. I’d tell you more, but everyone I’ve already told has dropped dead from the mind-numbing inevitability of what I’m saying!”

I can’t; it’s been delayed for two months because Mark is doing his part to delay the end of the comics industry.