Mark Millar
Mark Millar
Mark Millar MBEis a Scottish comic book writer, known for his work on The Authority, The Ultimates, Marvel Knights Spider-Man, Ultimate Fantastic Four, Civil War, The Secret Service, Wanted, Chrononauts, Superior and Kick-Ass, the latter six of which have been, or will be, adapted into feature films...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionComic Book Author
Date of Birth24 December 1969
CityGlasgow, Scotland
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It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon.
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It's a split that relates to what we're living in now.
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I wouldn't let kids near half the stuff I've written so it is quite lovely to pass these little books out to children when they visit the house.
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The end of the series has massive ramifications. This is one of those things that comes along that shapes things for times to come. ... There's very much a pre-Civil War and post-Civil War Marvel Universe coming at you.
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It's actually annoying when I hear people say the sequel will be late because we're in a completely different situation from the original.
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Sales were stable, but they would have kept rising if we'd been out there every month and I think we'd be topping 200,000 by now.
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Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.
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We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.
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Writers are the most terrible kleptomaniacs.
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I am as resilient as the steel that was once made here, and I am a fighter, in every sense of the word. We all are.
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Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.
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I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.
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At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.
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I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.