Mark Millar Archives

Where Is GrannyComics2?
A few weeks ago, Elizabeth Hodge, a self-confessed long term comic book fan expressed her love for the upcoming Starlight comic by Mark Millar and Goran Parlov, that she showed off a full size back tattoo of the cover in a video and promised a series of comic book reviews She interacted with all sort[...]
How Mark Millar Made Me Feel Like An Idiot: A Quick Review Of Starlight #1
By Abdulkareem Baba Aminu "I feel like an idiot," began the first issue of Mark Millar and Goran Parlov's Starlight, and that's exactly how I felt, realizing I wrongly imagined the comic to be a Flash Gordon clone (Let's face it: Early marketing positioned it as one) Published by Image Comics, it tells the story of[...]
As Mark Millar Embraces Digital, Nick Lowe Rejects It (UPDATE)
Mark Millar recently wrote in CBR about his decision to embrace day-and-date digital comics release for his Millarworld titles Previously he'd insisted on delays to digital releases of his books in order to support comic book stores selling the comic in print, but had changed his mind, stating that the print comics market wasn't being[...]
A Comic Show – Moon Knight Is Hawkeye For Crazy People!
By Aaron Haaland [youtube]http://youtu.be/JmMVmoSi3MA[/youtube] Aaron Haaland, owner of A Comic Shop in Orlando Florida, writes: Hey Fandom! I'm back with new comics now, it's A Comic Show! This week there's a bunch of All New Marvel Now, Forever Evil, and some Mark Millar and other creator owned books. All New Marvel Now is more hits than misses for me[...]
The Starlight Tattooed Granny… But Is She Really? (UPDATE)
When launching Kick Ass, Mark Millar made a film about a real life superhero for YouTube as if inspired by the comic It was faked When launching Nemesis, Mark Millar faked an ad for the book on Times Square that wasn't true When Superior launched he put up a photo showing Barack Obama carrying a[...]
The Blonde Starlight Preview That Escaped Into The Wild
A few weeks ago, Bleeding Cool ran a story about the preview of Mark Millar and Gorlan Parlov's upcoming Image comic, Starlight. And how between the first preview and the second preview it had been de-Flash Gordoned. About how, in its first announcement it was described as Flash Gordon-meets-Dark Knight But by the second preview, suddenly the[...]
TWEETED BUT NOT YET DELETED: Michael B Jordan Is Who Now?
Exactly the right personality for Johnny! — Mark Millar (@mrmarkmillar) February 20, 2014   @mrmarkmillar white? — Johan Salberg (@Jotodahan) February 20, 2014 Couldn't have been thinking of this fellow, could he? Rob Liefeld's echoing tweet however was deleted… Man, it's early, sorry for the typos… — robertliefeld (@robertliefeld) February 20, 2014 Where's Samuel Jackson when you need him? [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v7ddB_9cGc[/youtube] [...]
Of Mice And Mark Millar
From today's Scottish Herald On Sunday, featuring Mark Millar and Scottish comedian Robert Florence as Lenny & George from Of Mice And Men, to illustrate an article on the Glasgow Film Fest, which will again be featuring a Kapow strand. And Photoshopped for clarity… From today's Scottish Herald On Sunday, featuring Mark Millar and Scottish comedian[...]
Hit Girl Can Run At Over 70 MPH And Reads Jupiter's Legacy
Room for one more plug? Mark Millar's Ultimate buddy Jeph Loeb wrote that, you know… Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London With an exhibition of the work of Liz Prince, the launch of her new Top Shelf Comics title Alone Forever, with an exclusive limited bookplate. There's always been a problem at the heart of the Kick[...]
Has Mark Millar And Gorlan Parlov's Starlight Been De-Flash Gordoned?
Mark Millar talked about his new series Starlight, created with Gorlan Parlov, over at CBR. "Starlight" is my love letter to all the sci-fi serials I was obsessed with as a kid It's odd, but growing up with older parents I was into all these things nobody else really watched and I was obsessed with everything[...]
Mark Millar, MBE, Political Animal At Large
Mark Millar is quite the political animal Describing himself as a lifelong socialist, at the last General Election not only did he switch allegiance from the Labour Party to the separatist Scottish National Party, he did so publicly, appearing in political advertising and, when the SNP were victorious in forming a national Scottish government, was[...]
Colourist-Owned Comics? Letterer-Owned Comics? Is This The New Creator-Owned War Waiting To Happen?
Not something the writer determines based on his ego's whims. — Rick Remender (@Remender) January 31, 2012   @Remender Who doesn't tho? Seriously? I thought this was standard practice. — Mark Millar (@mrmarkmillar) January 31, 2012   @Remender @mrmarkmillar I've always split rights with artists regardless of what split I get with publishers. — Steve Niles (@SteveNiles) January 31, 2012   It all depends[...]
Are We Living In The Comics Future That Mark Millar Predicted?
In 2006, Mark Millar looked to the future and made some predictions This is what he saw, and how it turned out… And no, this isn't the usual shite where people say GAMES will replace comics That argument was crap and made about as much sense as CHEESE replacing comics, the two things being totally different[...]
Rumour: Mark Millar's Upcoming Comic Book Starlight Is Becoming A Movie
Latino Review tweets that Fox has picked up the rights to Mark Millar's upcoming ongoing series Starlight: EXCLUSIVE BREAKING COMICBOOK MOVIE NEWS! FOX IS CLOSING IN ON MARK MILLAR'S UPCOMING STARLIGHT COMIC WITH SIMON KINBERG ATTACHED TO PRODUCE. — elmayimbe (@elmayimbe) December 13, 2013 The Image comic is about a retired superhero who goes back into space for[...]
Bryan Hitch, Sean Gordon Murphy And Jae Lee For New Mark Millar Comics
From Mark Millar's Image Comics interview, talking about nine of ten new Millarworld titles planned over the next three years, he mentions three artists. Sean Gordon Murphy, Jae Lee, Bryan Hitch Well, we had identified one of them, albeit for the wrong project… But Millar was ambitious talking about how not only will these stories tie in together[...]
Swipe File: Starlight And The Incredibles
A preview of Mark Millar and Goran Parlov's Starlight A scene from Pixar's Incredibles. A post by Mark Millar, "Rank Pixar Films Top To Bottom" In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox We trust you, the[...]
Jupiter's Legacy Slips From October To January, But Tops Advance Reorder Chart
Black Science #1 clearly sold well enough to push the second print high up the chart, and New Avengers and Saga are both fuelled by recent successes. TOP 25 ADVANCE REORDER COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS/TPs (RETAIL) Product Price Publisher JUPITERS LEGACY #4 CVR C MCQUE (MR) $2.99 IMA DEAD BOY DETECTIVES #1 $2.99 DC VELVET #3 (MR) $2.99 IMA BLACK SCIENCE #1 2ND PTG (MR) $3.50 IMA NEW AVENGERS #13.INH $3.99 MAR SAGA #17 (MR) $2.99 IMA YOUNG AVENGERS TP[...]
Mark Millar Confirms Starlight Comic, With Goran Parlov
A few days ago, Bleeding Cool reported that Mark Millar had applied to register the trademark Starlight as a comic book. And so it has come to pass Hollywood Reporter has confirmed it as a new comic by Millar from Image, with artist Goran Parlov, best known in the US for his Punisher work, but whose[...]
Starlight, The New… Something From Mark Millar And Millarworld
Mark Millar's publishing imprint Millarworld has applied to register the trademark for the word "Starlight". It is registered to cover "Comic books; Comic magazines; Comics; Graphic novels; illustrated fiction stories; posters; trading cards; coffee-table books featuring science fiction, horror, fantasy, action, mystery, adventure, humor, and/or super-powered or costumed heroes or villains; none of the foregoing relating[...]
How I Pitched My Book To Mark Millar In An Elevator (And How You Can Rock A Quick Pitch, Too!)
They click off your page, delete your Email or mentally check out of the conversation…you've lost them forever. I recently reached out to Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar about my current Kickstarter project (sci-fi/superhero novel 'Assault or Attrition') and this was the pitch I sent him: — The premise is somewhat like, "What if Lex Luthor succeeded in killing Superman?" Not just[...]