Mark Millar Archives

From YouTube To Hollywood – How One Teenager Became A Kick Ass 2 Superhero
Brontë Tierney, a nineteen year old from Scotland wrote a song about Hit Girl, filmed herself playing it, uploaded it to YouTube and sent a link to Mark Millar. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1TrWjJ3rvw[/youtube] At which point, her life suddenly changed… Back in October 2012, I received a message from Mark Millar saying that he had just had dinner with Jeff Wadlow,[...]
Image Comics To Make Things Black And White At Expo
Crossed fingers. Guests will include Robert Kirkman, Mark Millar, Ed Brubaker, J Michael Straczynski, Nick Dragotta and Kurtis J Wiebe All announcing new stuff Tickets available here…       This year's Image Expo is on July 2nd in San Francisco There will be five black-and-white variant cover exclusives for the show including a Sidekick ashcan[...]
Kick Ass 3 Raises $2800 For Children's Charities With eBay Auctions
And raises the question, why don't other people do what Mark Millar does?     Naming a major hero in Kick Ass 3 raised over $2000 towards and naming Kick Ass' superhero rival raised over $700 for children's charities with over 30 bids for each. It is a marked slump on previous promotions, Kick Ass raised a four[...]
The Page That Totally Turned Kick Ass 3 #1 Around For Me
I rather enjoyed the first Kick Ass series by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr from Marvel The second… not as much Nor the Hit Girl spinoff But Kick Ass 3? Is it Iron Man 3 or is it Godfather Part III? It all comes down to one page. The first series contrasted the mundane with attempts[...]
How Mark Millar Will Get You To Buy All Six Covers For Kick Ass 3 #1 Tomorrow
That Mark Millar, he's a card, isn't he? I want the AILS WHEN cover please.   That Mark Millar, he's a card, isn't he? I want the AILS WHEN cover please.   That Mark Millar, he's a card, isn't he? I want the AILS WHEN cover please.   That Mark Millar, he's a card, isn't he? I want the AILS WHEN cover[...]
Millarworld Kids Dissolved
Don't worry, no acid was involved. But the Companies House reports that the company Millarworld Kids has been dissolved. It was set up up by Mark Millar and Curtis Tiege to publish the All Ages comic Kindergarten Heroes in 2012; a superhero picture book created with artist Curtis Tiegs The kid-centric hybrid of comic book iconography and picture[...]
The Ridiculous Legal Challenges Against Jupiter's Legacy
Last year, the then-upcoming comic Jupiter's Children by Mark Millar and Frank Quitely changed its name to Jupiter's Legacy At the time, Millar said "We just preferred it when we were playing around with finished logos and decided to tweak the title while we still could" But it had probably more to do with a[...]
Jupiter's Legacy, The First Top Three Creator Owned Title Since… When Exactly?
It was placed third on the chart for the month of April, though it could be higher if Diamond's 10% statistical discount for returnable comics is taking into account. Mark Millar asks; As far as I recall, there hasn't been a creator-owned book charting this high since the 93-94 Image days Have any creator-owned launches charted HIGHER[...]
A Comic Show – Mark Millar's Legacy
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCeZ3OxhK-0[/youtube] Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando writes; Hey Fandom! This is Image Comics' week! Independence Day came a few months early! First we have Jupiter's Legacy #1 by Kick-Ass's Mark Millar and All Star Superman's Frank Quitely! I don't know why it's published by Image and not Marvel's Icon imprint, maybe Quietly doesn't do Marvel[...]
So How Did Jupiter's Legacy Get Those 150,000 Pre-Orders Anyway?
Yesterday, we reported Rob Liefeld's tweet that Jupiter's Legacy, the new comic from Mark Millar and Frank Quitely, has received over 150,000 preorders Which may well put it at the top of the chart. But how did it acheive such a high order, when the likes of equally high profile Saga, East Of West and and[...]
Mark Millar Talks About What He Wants To Do With His CLiNT
2, #8) in January for an April release… What gives? Mark Millar replied; We need more Kick-ass, etc Johnny needed a few months to get ahead on Kick-Ass 3 and Jup's Leg was delayed from Sept last year so our group decided to hold back, Kick-Ass being our main marketing hook, especially in mainstream corner stores etc It's[...]
Kick Ass 3 In May
Mark Millar has hinted that we may be getting all sorts of death finales in the final chapter of Kick Ass And we may be getting them sooner than we thought as well, according to this ad from today's final issue of Hit Girl, Kick Ass 3 by Millar and Romita Jr lined up for[...]
Could Kick Ass 3 Be Called Justice Forever? Or Is This Something Else?
John Romita Jr and Mark Millar's Millarworld Limited have jointly registered the trademark "Justice Forever" with the USA The name of the Real Life Superhero group in the Kick Ass comic, and appearing in the upcoming Kick Ass 2 film, this week it became an official trademark for the following; SERIES OF COMIC BOOKS; GRAPHIC NOVELS;[...]
Coloured, Lettered Preview Of Jupiter's Legacy By Mark Millar And Frank Quitely
The Hollywood Reporter website has run a series of panels from Jupiter's Legacy, the upcoming comic from Mark Millar and Frank Quitely, but now lettered with our first glimpse of Pete Docherty's colours Some of this art had been previously seen, but only in unlettered black and white and back when it was the trademark-challenged[...]
BC Mag #2: Comic Book Feuds
Bleeding Cool Magazine article by Rich Johnston People understand Hollywood feuds exist, but find it strange similar behaviour might be exhibited in a
Are You An Brilliant Artist? Mark Millar Wants You
Mark Millar writes; You'd be out in the same year as Quitely, Romita, McNiven and another major artist we can't reveal yet (he's still under contract) In other words, you'd better be bloody good Upfront, you'd get more than Marvel or DC pay for work-for-hire and you get half the movie rights too HUGELY commercial project[...]
Why Did Jupiter's Children Change Its Name To Jupiter's Legacy Anyway?
Recently, Mark Millar stated that Jupiter's Children, his upcoming Image book with Frank Quitely now scheduled for April, was changing its name to Jupiter's Legacy because; We just preferred it when we were playing around with finished logos and decided to tweak the title while we still could Is that the whole story? Posted on Facebook; Mr[...]
Jupiter's Children eBay Auction Hits $3,500 With Hours To Go
Mark Millar is currently auctioning off the naming rights to his upcoming comic with Frank Quitely, Jupiter's Children. Previous auctions from Millar have raised money for the school for disabled children at which his brother works, Kick Ass raised a four figure sum and made Deve Lizewski famous, $5,000 from Superior and $8,500 from Nemesis Secret[...]
Grace Randolph's Stacktastic On The Most Powerful People In Comics
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYedmnlMSjg[/youtube] Think About The Ink reports; Mark Millar, Dan DiDio and Kevin Feige are just a few of the people to make it into the Top 100 list of powerful people in comics, as determined by Rich Johnston for his new Bleeding Cool magazine! Host Grace Randolph sits down to interview Rich Johnston about this list, the[...]
What Could CLiNT Look Like In A Few Months Time?
When CLiNT Magazine relaunched earlier this year, the title changed to Mark Millar's CLiNT But with Secret Service and Hit Girl approaching the end of their serialisation in CLiNT  – what's next? Nemesis 2 from Millar and McNiven was delayed from September to January, but now it's been bumped to at least February, Jupiter's Children has[...]
Here Come The Sentinels – Mark Millar On X-Men: Days Of Future Past (UPDATE)
Here's a blurry scan of Mark Millar's interview for the new issue of SFX magazine, a superhero special Can't read much but the pull quote for the X-Men: Days Of Future Past movie is "This is X-Men meets The Terminator You've got robots, you've got time travel, you've got superheroes." So that's Sentinels then… I should pop[...]
Saturday Runaround – A Far Higher Earth
  HighWatch: Sam Humphries shares designs from Higher Earth; TwitWatch: Did someone at Image forget to log out of the official account before tweeting something of a more personal nature? 101Watch: Remember those newspaper articles about how comics aren't all just superhero comics from the eighties and nineties? They're back. GuardianWatch: The Guardian fetes Mark Millar in the light[...]
Five Possibilities for Marvel's NYCC Annoucement "Superior"
But, again, the most shocking book of 2012? Could that be the last issue of AVX? The first issue of All New X-Men? 4) The guest is Mark Millar, who is currently sticking to creator-owned work Superior is a reference to his Icon book for Marvel, but also a reference to the X-Men, as he is[...]
Greg Rucka On Leaving Marvel And DC Behind
You know, I'm starting to worry for  the now-named Mark Millar's CLiNT With Jupiter's Children and Nemesis 2 both delayed until next year, are we going to get to a point where Mark Millar's CLiNT runs out of Mark Millar material to print? Will we see Unfunnies, Shadowmen and Saviour pulled out from the bottom[...]