Mark Millar is playing the hype machine again:
My prediction is that [1985] is going to be the project with the strongest legs from my entire Marvel period. I just got issue three in from Tommy Lee Edwards and was struck by the sheer beauty of this artwork. Also, that mainstream accessibility thing I always strive for just really, really works here. Like Marvels, I think this is a book starring Cap, Iron Man, the X-Men, Doom, Magneto, etc, that anyone can read. It’s got a cast of thousands, non-stop action from the end of the second issue and ties in directly with Wolverine, Kick-Ass, Fantastic Four (plus the original Secret Wars) and yet is something you could pass to your Grandma.
Providing she doesn’t mind seeing someone’s guts being pulled out by The Abomination, of course.
Wait, it ties in with creator-owned Kick-Ass? Huh.
March 20th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
I, for one, can say that neither of my grandmas want to see someones guts being pulled out by The Abomination.
Sorry, Mark.
March 20th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Will it also improve my broadband speed and clean my cat’s litter box? Because then I am so there.
March 20th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
I hear its also a “male enhancement” and there’s a hidden code in the art with Chinese penny stock tips.
Yeah Millar is full of hot air but at least he’s consistent.
March 20th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
I just don’t see it. Edwards art isn’t that good, so I don’t see why it would be a mainstream success.
March 20th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Sounds like something to pick up in TPB. Not really interested in the premise, but what I’ve seen of the art has been very nice.
March 20th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Not really fond of Tommy Lee Edwards work, it really doesnt look like anything special to me
March 20th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Millar has become the Publishers Clearing House of the comic book world. You get the splashy sweepstakes envelope in the mail so many times that it never gets opened anymore, just dumped right into the recylcing bin.
March 21st, 2008 at 10:40 am
LOL! Great analogy, Dawn.
March 21st, 2008 at 11:39 am
I’m not going to pass judgment on this book yet…but it looks like Millar is metaphorically writing about his personal experience of “falling in love” with the medium as a boy.
Kind of like how Steve Seagle did his piece on why he hated Superman as a boy with “It’s a Bird…”
If that’s the case, I think this book is going to be excellent.
March 21st, 2008 at 2:15 pm
“my…Marvel period”? He’s Picasso now? His pretension and exhortation have passed through effective and amusing into annoying.
March 21st, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Has any blogger out there compiled Millar’s predictions and the respective outcomes? I remember a bunch of predictions around the time of Civil War about how valuable the comic would become and how Captain America and a #of other titles would start selling 100,000+.
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Whatever…blah, blah negativos…ALL of Millar’s comics are fun…so, he exaggerates and is a little arrogant…HIS COMICS ARE FUN.
Redneck inbred Hulks, a boy having a real life adventure with the superheroes he grew up reading about, and another discovering the downside to trying it out himself (as we ALL have imagined), a family of super hero sci-fi adventurers relocating earth’s population to a giant artificial planet while there dumb lil’ brother plays Paris Hilton? CMON he jumps from that to the heart wrenching Ultimates and creating a large crossover (Civil War) that added a million new story ideas for an entire line of comics (all of which hurt nothing, and can be reverted if the fanbase eventually grows tired of it)…not to mention creating the Marvel Zombie’s, a stellar retelling of the X-Men, as well as creating his own line of original comics.
Millar has been a fresh breath of air for the industry…it’s cool if his writing isn’t your cup of tea (Kirkman’s stuff is fun too, but I can’t touch it with a ten foot pole)…but just keep in mind all he’s added to the industry since his run on the Authority…for god’s sake every single superheros artist now, at the very least, adds SEAMS to gloves because of the example Millar and Hitch set on the Ultimates…a book he said would change they way many would approach super hero comics. HES INFLUENCED GLOVE SEAMS FOR GOD’s sake, lol.
Sorry for the rant, I know Millar can SOUND like a choch sometimes, but really, I think all the negativity directed towards him is a bit too much.