Mark Millar interview about future projects

[GNR]

http://www.newsarama.com/marvelnew/CivilWar/WarRoom/Millar_Part01.html

 

[Darthphere]

Meh, 1985 sounded interesting as a fumetti book, now? Not so much.

 

[Red]

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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]NRAMA: Figured that was coming… [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Something we asked Tom Brevoort for issue #5's "Civil War Room" (coming up later today) about revelations of elements of the story - speaking of the tie-in issue in Fantastic Four #540 - "42" - the Negative Zone jail played a role with Tony and Peter apparently visiting it for the first time. Yet, this wasn't the debut, as it showed up in Front Line #5, first. Had everything stayed on schedule, would FF #540 have been the debut of "42" as being something in the Negative Zone and things went from there, with it playing a major role in Civil War #5 as well? [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]MM: Yeah, I made all this stuff up when I was plotting the book and the big Negative Zone reveal was supposed to be in my 5th issue. But when a book has this many tie ins it's incredibly complex and a couple of the little reveals happened in places where they weren't supposed to. It didn't affect the story, but it affected the order I wanted them to be revealed in. It was no biggie, though. I didn't mind. I just said when I started doing this book that I wasn't interested unless I could do something like the original Crisis where we had a pre and post Civil War Marvel Universe. These are all the ideas I came up with on a plane-trip after the meeting and quickly fired them back to Marvel. I had an idea for revamping Thunderbolts using the JLA or Avengers notion of all the big hitters on one team, an idea for a Champions reboot, a starting point notion for an Alpha Flight relaunch and a creator-owned series I was planning called The Initiative. [/FONT]

Wasn't their some speculation that the Champions was the next Millar/Hitch project?[/FONT]

 

[GNR]

Meh, 1985 sounded interesting as a fumetti book, now? Not so much.

Yea that really blows.I couldn't make it out in the article,but was this Marvel's decision to not to Fumetti?

 

[GNR]

okay so let's see

-1985
-Kick Ass with JRJR
-King and Country OGN painted Hardcover by an unnamed book publisher
-a 36 issue run
-the BIG project with Hitch coming up is on an established book for 2008

that's all I got so far,haven't read the whole thing yet

 

[Darthphere]

Yea that really blows.I couldn't make it out in the article,but was this Marvel's decision to not to Fumetti?

Pretty much.

 

[PhotoJones]

okay so let's see

-1985
-Kick Ass with JRJR
-King and Country OGN painted Hardcover by an unnamed book publisher
-a 36 issue run
-the BIG project with Hitch coming up is on an established book for 2008

that's all I got so far,haven't read the whole thing yet

i thought the 36 issue run was the same project as the one with hitch. is it different?

i guess it makes sense. besides bagley, no one can do 36 issues anymore. if hitch had to do that, it'd take 14 years to be completed.

 

[GNR]

i thought the 36 issue run was the same project as the one with hitch. is it different?

i guess it makes sense. besides bagley, no one can do 36 issues anymore. if hitch had to do that, it'd take 14 years to be completed.

It's hard to pick out,but it sounds like it's with a crapload of different artists.He mentioned so much in that interview it's hard to pick up everything.

Haha Hitch on a 36 issue run?No way in hell.

 

[PhotoJones]

It's hard to pick out,but it sounds like it's with a crapload of different artists.He mentioned so much in that interview it's hard to pick up everything.

Haha Hitch on a 36 issue run?No way in hell.

and this is 36 issues on a current title?

man, that interview was hard to follow...

 

[Darthphere]

Mark millar was definitely on drugs during this interview.

 

[PhotoJones]

Mark millar was definitely on drugs during this interview.

yeah...that was just a bad interview.

 

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Wasn't their some speculation that the Champions was the next Millar/Hitch project?[/FONT]

Ya, someone made a thread here a week or two ago about that. They speculated that Champions would come back and asked who would be in it. At the time (forget who in that thread) noted that they said a few new team books would come out and not all had been revealed yet.

I do have to admit tho that I am somewhat releaved that him saying that he had to do a story with permanent ramifications to the MU, that it be this rather than half the superhero population die off or something, or a massive retcon by merging different MU universes or something. When you think that it could have possibly been a story of the 616 universe merging with Ultimate universe or something, CW and a law doesn't seem all that bad.

 

[Darthphere]

Im pretty sure the 36 issue project is not the same Hitch project hes been hinting at.

 

[PhotoJones]

Im pretty sure the 36 issue project is not the same Hitch project hes been hinting at.

right.

unless hitch is drawing stick figures.

 

[Shadowknight]

Champions? So now they Great Lakes (blank) is going to have to change their name again?!