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Monday Runaround – Mark Millar And Tintin Separated At Birth?

MillarWatch: Saturday's Scotsman's magazine profiled Mark Millar this weekend. Nothing particularly new, shocking or concerning his ongoing battle with foxes. But we do get some of those marvelous images of superhero discovery;

I also made an Iron Man suit out of paper, coloured it all in and then stapled it all round myself. And I had a Superman suit that I wore under my school clothes when I was about seven. It was plastic. By lunchtime I could hardly breathe and the teacher opened up the windows. Sweat was pouring down my face. Eventually she started undoing my buttons and took my shirt off and it was like my secret identity exposed. I was humiliated.

We learn about his early experiences with mortality; his mother dying when he was fourteen, he father when he was eighteen. Of what first attracted him to his wife Gill of twenty-six years (actually, more like sixteen, sorry Scotsman…)

Probably the school uniform. Doesn't take much when you're 17.

And we get a discussion about the vicerality of stories created by Catholics;

I was talking to Mel Gibson about this… About The Passion, which was called the pornography of violence. It didn't seem violent to us because we grew up with the stations of the cross. Buddhism is a fat guy sitting around smiling, but we get a guy nailed to a piece of wood, wearing a crown of thorns, screaming in agony. That's your first image as a child in a Catholic school, and the weird thing is you don't really notice. Then in the stations of the cross, you see him get beaten. And we also both grew up in tough places. So maybe we internalised the violence and it comes out in the work.

And it does give a firm date for the final issue of the first Kick Ass volume (December 23rd), the trade paperback (March 1st) so at least we know that, yes, it will be out before the film (16th April).

LocalWatch: Sacremento just had a mini-comics convention this weekend. Josh Hoopes was not seen there…

GamesWatch: After the success of the first, Warner Bros has announced that it will be publishing for the sequel to RockSteady's Arkham Asylum game away from Eidos.

FilmWatch: Gary Whitta mourns the loss of his Akira.

ChristmasWatch: Heroes Cards And Comics in Canada is trying to win prizes for its hockey game of superheroes window display. Anyone got a pic?

TinTinWatch: Tomorrow Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles is hosting a Tintin in the Land of Meltdown event until tomorrow, described as;

A fantastic display of all things Tintin including charming character watches, limited edition cold cast porcelain and resin statues, and a dazzling array of lead miniatures and detailed vehicles that span the cast and events of all the albums … Meltdown will host this surprise exposition within the store allowing fans and collectors the first opportunity to acquire any of these delights under one roof in the United States.

Tintin is one of those worldwide success stories in comics that just never caught in America. With the Jackson/Spielberg/Moffat/Wright Jr/Cornish movie treatments on the way, that has to change soon. Again, anyone got a pic? (actually more like sixteen (act

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