Image Comics/Millarworld have been publishing a number of Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl series on late, based on Mark Millar and John Romita 's Marvel comic book, adapted into to movies and just waiting for the rights to revert to Netflix so that Mark Millar can start writing them again. But in June, under a John Romita […]
Warner Bros and DC are to host the New York premiere screening of Superman: Red Son, based on the comic by Mark Millar and Dave Johnson, at 7pm, March 16th at the Directors Guild of America. The film tells the story of a Superman who landed twelve hours later that originally planned, making Russia his […]
April sees the launch of a new Marvel Zombies mini-series, Marvel Zombies Resurrection, not to be confused with Marvel Zombies Resurrection, the one-shot that came out last year. Try to follow along here. But that's not the only Marvel Zombies comic hitting stores in April. Yes, the upcoming super-mega-crossover event Empyre with a Y may […]
Six months after production on the first season began and four months after showrunner Steven S. DeKnight (Marvel's Daredevil) left the series ("creative differences") and Sang Kyu Kim (The Walking Dead) joined, fans of the streaming service's upcoming series adaptation of writer Mark Millar and artist Frank Quitely's comic book series Jupiter's Legacy are in […]
Mark Millar (#34 on the power list), has entertaining politics. He publically backed and promoted Scottish politician Alex Salmond and the Scottish National Party in 2011, appeared in their party political broadcasts, and was publically thanked by Salmond when the SNP won almost all Scottish seats in the General Election. Salmond went on to appear with Millar at […]
We mentioned Mark Millar's comments about DC Comics abandoning Superman's secret identity on John Siuntres' Word Balloon podcast. But he had a few things to say about Netflix, Martin Scorsese and superhero movies too. How much you can actually believe, well, that's down to you. He talked about how whenever studios approached Millarworld about licensing […]
Jupiter's Legacy by Mark Millar, Frank Quitely and Peter Doherty began as Jupiter's Children, until a trademark fight saw them rename the book Jupiter's Legacy, and the book published by Image Comics in 2013. The comic began looking at the generational conflict between a group of ageing superheroes known as the Union, who used the powers […]
Mark Millar popped by John Siuntres' Word Balloon podcast before Christmas to talk about his work for Netflix, what led up to it and the state of comic books today, and over the past few decades. Siuntres also asked him about the news of Brian Bendis, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado getting rid of Superman's […]
Here you go folks, in full, the Top 100 Power List of Comics, 2019 Edition. Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the English-speaking comic book industry, weighted towards the direct market. It is judged by all manner of attributes, the ability to influence what comics exist and sell, […]
Before Christmas, comic creator Mark Millar's young daughter lost her teddy bear – a 37-year old family heirloom – a ski-suit shop in Santa's Lapland in Finland. Something they only seemed to realise when they were back in Scotland. He put out an appeal to try and track it down – no joy so far. […]
Last week, Mark Millar's mystery comic book from Netflix/Image Comics shipped to comic book stores, and revealed on Bleeding Cool as the long-awaited sequel to Chosen, co-created with Peter Gross and originally published by Dark Horse Comics, as American Jesus: New Messiah. Image Comics has now revealed all three solicitations for the three issue mini-series. […]
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Back in September, Mark Millar teased a surprise project for the week before Christmas. Little did he know at the time that this week would be the biggest week in comics in 2019, in terms of big projects landing in comic stores. And despite all the fuss, it is in danger of being overshadowed, no […]
Today, Britain is holding a General Election, in which everyone over the age of 18 who is a British citizen, and not in jail, can vote for a local MP. There are 650 constituencies across the United Kingdom, and whichever party can form a majority of MPs gets to form the government. If no one […]
Jupiter's Legacy is the upcoming Netflix adaptation of the Mark Millar, Frank Quitely and Peter Doherty superhero comic book from Image Comics. The word on the web is that one of the show's writer Sang Kyu Kim will be its new showrunner, replacing Steven DeKnight, who left the production suddenly last month. Kim has previously […]
Once of the standout scenes from Kingsman: The Secret Service, based on the Secret Service comic book by Dave Gibbons, Matthew Vaughn and Mark Millar involved Colin Firth's character finding himself in a rather fundamentalist church that suddenly gets a lot more fundamental, used as a test for something that turns everyone in there into […]
A long time ago, Mark Millar wrote a Youngblood comic book drawn by Rob Liefeld called Youngblood: Bloodsport, published by Arcade Comics. The first issue was published in 2004 and Mark Millar finished writing scripts for issues 2 and 3. But of issue 2's publication, there was none. Liefeld then said that the second issue […]
Mark Millar sold his Millarworld publishing imprint to Netflix in the summer of 2016. Since then he has been a (very well paid) employee of Netflix, working on TV shows and new comic books, published by Image Comics but owned by Netflix. As a result, he has also been restricted from working on Kingsman, Kick-Ass […]
Matthew Vaughn created the Secret Service comic books with Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, which span into the Kingsman movies, of which the third, the prequel The King's Man, is about to come out. The cast and crew of The King's Man have been attending New York Comic Con, where they gave an interview, telling […]
While the first trailer to The King's Man prominently features Ralph Fiennes as the Duke of Oxford and the need for the group, the second introduces how the first team comes together. Matthew Vaughn returns to direct the prequel and third film of the Kingsman series, loosely based on the comics of the same name […]
