Mark Millar remembers comic creative teams that never were:
*I remember Alan Moore getting me all excited about his upcoming Superman-Plus comic when I was about 15. The idea was kinda like DC Presents where Moore and a different artist every story did a Superman team-up with a different DC character every month.
*The original artist on the Grant Morrison Animal Man run was Jim Fern, but schedules conflicted and Chas Truog replaced Fern.
*I had a Creeper series in the works at DC for a while, back in the late 90s, but it was cancelled just before I started writing the scripts.
*When I first pitched The Ultimates, Marvel wanted Jackson Guice as artist. Andy Kubert and Leinil Yu were other suggestions, though both had started other projects before Marvel approached them for art duties.
*Ultra The Multi-Alien by Pete Milligan. I can’t remember if Brendan was in line to draw this, but I remember the plot being about a family of hillbillies who wanted to eat the part fish/ part foul monster as a four course meal.
*Arkham Asylum by Neil Gaiman. Weirdly, this was one of those odd coincidences where two people pitch for the same project and Morrison, I think, had pitched first.
*WildCATS by Garth Ennis. This was so close to happening Wizard even did a news feature on it, until Garth realized it wasn’t for him.
*WildCATS by Millar and Quitely. Had we taken the staff jobs at Wildstorm back in 2000, this was our next project after The Authority. I had the whole thing worked out too.
*Howard Chaykin on Superman, Steve Gerber on Wonder Woman and someone else really good on Batman as a big revamp circa 1985.
Anyone remember any more?
Pete Milligan on Ultra The Multi-Alien? Goddamn whoever turned that down…!
April 17th, 2007 at 10:25 am
Yeah…I’d have loved to see ANYTHING done with Ultra The Multi-Alien. Hell…him or a hundred other characters from the old Who’s Who in the DC Universe that you never see ANYWHERE.
April 18th, 2007 at 12:13 am
I remember Chaykin going into great detail about his plans for the ’80s Superman revamp in an old AMAZING HEROES interview. His description of a series of panels with the people in Metropolis startled by a series of increasingly louder sonic booms, followed by a double-page spread of Superman snapping his fingers as he listens to show tunes on his Walkman while flying, has stuck with me ever since.