“…and I promise, it’s not going to be Fantastic four!”

Northstar.

Y’know, back when Millar was doing one project at a time (Wanted, Chosen, etc), it wasn’t as good as when he was doing The Ultimates, Wolverine and MK Spider-Man. Quantity kind of IS quality with Millar.

My guess?

SECRET CIVIL WORLD WAR ANNHILATION INVASION.

With an accompanying SECRET CIVIL WORLD WAR ANNIHILATION INVASION: FRONT LINE mini-series written by Paul Jenkins.

…And BLAH… BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH…

When yelling “Get out of the way!” just won’t do: I misread the sentence the first time and thought it read “a blind superhero driving a car 3000 miles an hour“, and I admit, I thought that sounded awesome.

Didn’t he release a ton of clues about Fantastic Four, none of which seem to be relevant or actually apply to Fantastic Four? I’ll guess Defenders, but only vaguely due to the mention of the Hulks. I love Millar (except maybe for Civil War, where my problem was with the premise, not the execution) and am happy he’ll be back.

“a blind superhero driving a car 3000 miles”

…. Why in the heck does that sound like a rehashed joke from an old issue of ‘Toyfare’?

Mark, shut up already. Nobody cares.

How in the **** can people get excited over “Events” when they constantly happen?!

I hope all of these events eventually put comic books into a coma-like state…like what the 90′s almost did.

Best guesses: Daredevil drives cross country, the Sentry (hopefully) dies, and maybe that Red Hulk we’ve seen teased before is used…

I don’t understand Marvel, a hack like Millar gets work thrown at him left and right but a true comic legend named John Byrne has to draw lame commissions for his slobbering suckup fans. Comic fanboys disgust me. As my mentor Bono said,”There are pigs and there are pearls, digging through slop ain’t my bag.”

[I]“…a hack like Millar gets work thrown at him left and right but a true comic legend named John Byrne has to draw lame commissions for his slobbering suckup fans.”[/I]

Look up hack in the dictionary and therre’s Byrne staring right back at you.

Does Millar care about ANYTHING else other than how much his books sell?

He is indeed the paragon of comic book celebrity: he does not want to be a good writer, or even just a writer, or anything like. He just want to sell out and be ‘famous’.

He’s all about hype and money.

How sad.

Please, somebody give him his own reality show (I’m sure he’d LOVE that), and good riddance.

and I have nothing at all against Millars work, usually enjoy it, though Civil War was like Ultimate Crisis. unneeded and too many tie ins that relapsed way too much with no adding to the story, just detractions abound

Graeme: “So, Mike, do me a favor. I’m going to Europe for awhile, but I really want my posts to generate traffic while I’m gone. If you sense my Millar tease post is starting to lag in interest, somehow toss a positive Byrne post in the mix.”

Mike: “For good measure, in praising Byrne while trashing Millar, I’ll bash all fanboys. That should do the trick.”

(The above theoretical conversation IS a joke on my part, folks)

Seriously though, if someone could drag an insult of Harlan Ellison or Rob Liefeld into this thread we’d have ourselves the never-ending post.

Millar’s acutely aware of how to work the hype machine–he’s learned well from Quesada, methinks. That’s why you constantly hear him talk about how much his books sell, because he knows it drives the fanboy cognoscenti mad to realize that he’s successful *in spite* of them, rather than *because of* them.

Any success for comics really lifts all boats, so the fact that Civil War sold so well and brought attention back to the comics world is something Millar should be proud of.

On the other hand, Millar is so used to working the hype machine and being the Big Event Guy now that he’s forgotten that the rest of the comics universe still has to deal with the results of his stories once he’s laid waste to the characters, continuity, and rules of storytelling and moved on. So we get seven-plus months of Reed Richards as an utterly inhuman psuedo-Mengele, and then–wham!–he’s back to being good old Reed without any real explanation or resolution. Thanks, Mark.

And Tony Stark is all over the map thanks to Millar’s laying the groundwork for Iron Fascist. It makes for a great character study, but it’s inconsistent–is he a morally conflicted-but-decent guy using the ends to justify the means, the way Bendis and Brubaker write him? Or is he a mustache-twirling Machiavellian prick, a la JMS? Again, that’s all due to Millar writing him so completely out of the norm and laying that as the foundation that other writers have to deal with.

So, until Millar remembers that he works in a shared universe and the toys aren’t only his to play with, I’ll be doing my part to take food out of his baby momma’s and kids’ mouths by not buying his books.

Reed Richards is a skull…………..?

He’s kind of a mix between Jemas and Quesada, along with his own “fact exageration” added into the mix. I was a bit dumbfounded when he said that Marvel hadn’t done to the X-Men what they had done to the Avengers, because that’s exactly what New X-Men was.

Not referring to a statement he’s said here, btw, but a statement he’s said elsewhere

Death of the greatest Marvel hero = Stan Lee. Mark’s going to smother him with a pillow. I don’t like it either, but they’ll do anything for sales now.

Also, about this two Hulk thing…a giant red monstrosity bursting through walls? Kraft Foods\Kool-Aid should sue.

Okay, so Millar is getting us all riled up again. He’s really just working the industry the best way he knows how: “Sell the book.” Has any book since the death of Superman had the kind of mainstream media coverage that Civil War had? Didn’t think so. And whether you liked Civil War or not and whether you like Millar or not, you have to agree that his work on Civil War brought more new readers in comics shops than anything alse in a loooooong time. That includes the Spider-Man movies and the subsequent comic movie boom. Those folks generally would rather have a bunch of Spider-man related merchandise than an armful of non-Spider-man comics.

Back to my point… Millar hypes his stuff, it gets bought, and it’s rarely as horrible as some (or most) of you make it out to be. Remember that first time you picked up and issue of “The Ultimates” and how good that was?

Why don’t we give this new book a chance before we ask for Millar’s head?

Mark Millar is the best writer of Marvel Comics at the moment.

Not in 2007. He’s barely put anything out.

“On the other hand, Millar is so used to working the hype machine and being the Big Event Guy now that he’s forgotten that the rest of the comics universe still has to deal with the results of his stories once he’s laid waste to the characters, continuity, and rules of storytelling and moved on. So we get seven-plus months of Reed Richards as an utterly inhuman psuedo-Mengele, and then–wham!–he’s back to being good old Reed without any real explanation or resolution. Thanks, Mark”

REED IS A SKRULL!!!