…According to Wizard, at least. Millar explains the story:
…“Enemy of the State” was “Wolverine versus the Marvel Universe.” Just on a primal level as a fanboy, that appeals to me. This is entirely different. In this, the Marvel Universe as we understand it is gone. The superheroes are gone. There’s a few scattered guys left around, and they’re living in the remains of the Marvel Universe. Some terrible incident happens. America is absolutely f—ed. There’s nothing left but a wasteland really. It’s more like “Mad Max” than the Marvel Universe, but amongst that we see its remains. We still have some of the supervillains, but what they’ve done now is had children and grandchildren in some cases. So we’ve got gangs out in the states now. And there are ecological problems because we’re 50 years in the future by this point. It’s unlike any Marvel story you’ve ever had before. It’s more like a European thing. It’s just this horrible post-apocalyptic nightmare that happens to have superheroes and supervillains in it, and Wolverine is at the heart of it.
That sound you hear is probably the cash registers ringing in advance.
January 24th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
He had me until this bit:
“And he owes money to the Hulk gang who are the decedents of Bruce Banner, and they’re kind of like “The Hills Have Eyes” guys. They’re this horrible little gang of redneck Hulks. They’re hillbillies that live in the mountains, and they’ve all got wife beater shirts and ball caps and everything. They ride around in a customized Fantasticar that they got from the superheroes once they’d killed all the superheroes. So they go around and collect rent off all the people in their area.”
January 24th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Funny, because he had me until this bit:
“…Wolverine doesn’t have money to pay this particular month, so the story kicks off with he and Hawkeye, who is blind and a drug dealer, running drugs from the West Coast of America to the East Coast…”
This, judging by the article would be a 75 year old-plus Hawkeye. Blind. A drug runner.
I’ll take a look at the trade if it gets decent reviews…
January 24th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
i think it will be the “dark knight returns” of supervillains…
January 24th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
“It’s unlike any Marvel story you’ve ever had before.”
Iin his eyes, isn’t everything done by Mark, though?
January 24th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
The setting reminds me of some of the 2099 titles, actually.
But if Wolvie’s monthly goes out of continuity for this, that’s one less place he’ll be appearing in-continuity per month. That should please some people.
January 24th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
For whom trings the till? Doth it toll for thee, Duncan?
Probably. I’ve enjoyed the enforced break from Mark Millar comics, being there are none and Civil War was fucking terrible, but actually, misguided Eisner trib gibberish aside, his last Wolverine was adrenalicious.
January 24th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
You compliment Millar and strangely no one notices, Graeme. How unfair.
January 24th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Millar is perfect at tapping into that nihilistic fifteen-year-old boy who lives inside so many fanboys (including the one writing this comment). That can be a good thing or a bad thing. This sounds like the former.
That being said I can’t see McNiven doing a post-apocalyptic environment. From the sounds of it I think Marvel should have scored the biggest coup of all and gotten Frank Miller to draw this. Millar/Miller would destroy the Internet, though. Which it deserves.
January 25th, 2008 at 3:07 am
Two Snark Comments! Your choice!
So Wolverine: The End vs. Gamma White Trash?
or
Didn’t we just get an Essential Kilraven?
January 25th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
[QUOTE]Millar/Miller would destroy the Internet, though. Which it deserves.[/QUOTE]
Oh so true.