Of the four new Mark Millar comics announced at this weekend’s Kapow con in the UK, it’s no surprise that I’m most drawn to the still-untitled project with Frank Quitely. The idea of an ongoing Hit-Girl series does little for me (Wouldn’t the right time for this have been last year, following the movie and when there was more interest around Kick-Ass in general?), Supercrooks sounds fairly generic, and the Dave Gibbons project is still as much a mystery as before. But there’s something about Millar and Quitely’s “huge, 12-issue superhero epic” that catches my eye, and it’s not that it’s got, as Millar noted in a CBR interview, “a mythology as rich as ‘Lord or The Rings’ or ‘Star Wars’ but along the lines of ‘Crisis On Infinite Earths‘” (Although, for anyone that doubts whether or not Quitely can do that kind of thing, I’d direct your attention to Flex Mentallo, where he does it with style). No, it’s that this will be an Image book.
Millar hasn’t done a creator-owned book outside of Marvel’s Icon imprint since… what, the uncompleted War Heroes in 2008? In fact, there are a couple of incomplete projects the writer has at the publisher – in addition to War Heroes, there’re also the two follow-up chapters to Chosen, which were announced as forthcoming in 2009. Does one new Image book mean that the other Image books might be forthcoming?And what does it mean (if anything) that Millar is publishing outside of Marvel again?
(Also, Millar hasn’t said where the Gibbons project is being published yet, has he? I wonder if that’ll be Image as well… or even funnier, if Gibbons’ connections land it at DC or Vertigo…)
(Also, also: Considering the not-exactly-speedy Quitely is, by his own admission, still drawing the new We3 pages for the new oversized collection and then has the first issue of Grant Morrison’s Multiversity to do for DC, when are we likely to even see this new series?)
April 11th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
alright
seems weird but I’m a millar fan so I’m psyched.
April 11th, 2011 at 5:26 pm
However, Quitely is still exclusive to DC.
April 11th, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Shouldn’t we be questioning when he’s going to finish Kick Ass 2 and Superior? And didn’t Millar mention another Nemesis? This guy is getting really bad at getting books out on time. So no, I’m not excited about 4 new titles from the new master of epic lateness.
April 11th, 2011 at 6:54 pm
mark millar….yawn
April 11th, 2011 at 7:05 pm
Yawn. Call me when the collected edition comes out – if an of this ever gets finished. Or started.
April 11th, 2011 at 10:18 pm
Ladies & Gentlemen I give you the most overrated comic creator of all time!!!!!!! Do us all a favor Mark & go away! BTW: War Heroes was never finished bc Obama won the 08 election. So Mark had to tone it down now that the military is under Democrat control lol
April 11th, 2011 at 10:51 pm
I was kind of hoping to read some sort of press release or something, not just your reaction to some news. Also kind of wondering how long it’s going to be before we see any of these. Seems like he’s trying to do too much at once, with people who are already doing other shit. I mean the lateness on Kick-Ass 2 is pathetic. It should never have been solicited, let alone released, with such a delay between issues one and two.
I don’t mind the delay on Superior so much because it’s obvious why it’s late, and I’m sure it’ll be straight back after Ultimate Avengers Vs. New Ultimates. I’m still wondering who the mystery 4th artist for Ultimate Avengers was supposed to be. Pretty sure it wasn’t just Yu again.
April 12th, 2011 at 1:42 am
Who gives a shit?!
April 12th, 2011 at 4:47 am
I was at the panel at Kapow, they announced then that Quitely is no longer DC exclusive.
He was the surprise guest at the panel. They barely said anything about the Miller/Gibbons project for legal reasons, but the thing I got most excited about was the new series from The Losers team of Andy Diggle and Jock called Snapshot. It follows the story of a kid who finds an iphone, while looking through the pictures he says they’re shots of assassinations and that the phone belongs to an assassin and he wants it back. It sounded awesome.
They never really mentioned Nemesis and I wished I remembered to ask about War Heroes!! damn it!
April 12th, 2011 at 2:12 pm
4 new series? LOL. It took 8 months to get the SECOND issue of his Kick-Ass 2 out, and he wants us to believe he can juggle 4 series? The series with Quitely sounds promising, but unless it’s release schedule is twice yearly, I doubt it’ll happen soon.
April 12th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
Ultimatier Kick Assier Kids vs. the Joker Nemesis Bartman