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Vague Details About Mark Millar, Dave Gibbons And Matthew Vaughn's The Secret Service

In this month-and-a-half's CLiNT Magazine, out later this week, Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar talk about their new comic book, The Secret Service, created with movie director, producer and writer Matthew Vaughn.

This comic holds a special place in Bleeding Cool's heart, as it was the subject of our very first story two and a half years ago, nameless, and no mention of Vaughn, just that Millar and Gibboms were working on a project together, how a "From the creators of Watchmen and Wanted" would be a good sell… of course that would be "From the creators of Watchmen and Kick Ass" now. We were then able to finally break the news of its title last month.

The CLiNT article is an exercise in saying very little about the comic, over four full pages. But we do get some titbits.

"Something to do with the government and something to do with the military intelligence wing of the government. It's not a spy story as such,. That would be WAY too straight for a couple of guys who made their names in superhero comics… It's a hero book, and there's a sidekick and there's vast headquarters and a secret origin and all the stuff you'd expect to see in a superhero book. But we really, really play around with a lot of conventions here.

"No two scenes seem to be set in the same country and we're working on a scale unlike something as up-close-and-personal as a crimefigheter with no super-powers. But I can see the link, because we're balancing that sense of the real and the outrageous and there's super-villains and so on. But what's exciting about it is that it's something new.

"The Ultimates was about heroes responding to the new America and the new world after the attacks on September the 11th. The Secret Service is the ramifications of that, as America is struggling on the world stage, funding is being seriously undercut to balance the books and some people are trying their best to take advantage of the fragile global situation.

"The Secret Service started as two different projects. I had an idea that was mainly set in the US and [Matthew Vauughn] had an idea for a similar thing that was mainly set in the UK. I can't give too much anyway without blowing the story, but we essentially fused both characters together and so the Batman and Robin or whatever you want to call these guys really are a genuine co-creation between me, Dave and Matthew. He had some sequences in mind and I had these crazy plot ideas I'd been mulling over for a year or two and we just hammered it out in the pub, really. It evolved naturally. So I've gone off and written the comic and he'll write the screenplay for the movie, which might feed back into the comic too. l don't know. It's impossible for one of us to untangle one from the other and now Dave is the third man in this whole creation, bringing in a THIRD dimension to the story. We're going to see all his drawings and designs and emblems and so on working their way back into the movie too."

Along the way we also discover Dave Gibbon's involvement in MadeFire – a new digital comics format, how Mark Milar wants Millarworld to rival Marvel and DC in 2013,  and reprinting of the letter Mark Millar sent to Dave Gibbons as a teenager "selecting" him to work on a comic together, as well as Dave Gibons reply, suggesting he write to Karen Berger…

CLiNT #12 also continues more reprints of Kick Ass 2, Superior, Who Is Jake Ellis, the long awaited return of Frankie Boyle and Mike Dowling's original series Rex Royd, and is also beginning to reprint Mark Sable and Paul Azaceta's Graveyard Of Empires.

Clint Magazine #12 is published this week from Titan Magazines for £4.25.

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