Tag Archive | "Mark Millar"

Red Son

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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Hitting the racks tomorrow this rather tasty deluxe hardback edition of Mark Millar’s Superman: Red Son; I love this Soviet propaganda style cover artwork by Dave Johnson.

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Kick-Ass trailer

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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Kick-Ass Trailer Park | MySpace Video Yep, there is an official trailer for Mark Millar and Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass, the unusual superhero movie where the guys went around the traditional studio system and raised finance themselves to fund the film, allowing them to make it as they thought it should be, free of endless notes and memos [...]

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Mark Millar at the Edinburgh Book Festival

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

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Top Scottish comics (and now movie) scribe Mark Millar made his first ever appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival in August and he seemed to enjoy the experience as much as the audience did (you can read my report here). Mark was on fine form talking with Scotland on Sunday’s Stuart Kelly (who’s also [...]

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Scotland’s most Wanted: Mark Millar kicks ass at the Edinburgh Book Festival

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

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Over the holiday weekend I was lucky enough to attend the Edinburgh International Book Festival once again, this time to see top Scottish comics scribe Mark Millar on what I think was his first appearance at this venerable literary bash. I bumped into Mark outside the Writer’s Yurt just before the event was about to [...]

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Return to the Ultimate universe…

Thursday, August 20, 2009

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Ultimate Spider-Man #1 & Ultimate Avengers #1 by Bendis, Lafuente (Spider-Man), Millar, Pacheco, Miki (Avengers) Marvel Comics I really haven’t followed what’s been going on in Marvel’s Ultimate Universe for quite a while. In fact, aside from the odd Ellis written thing, the last time I visited the Ultimate Universe was Ultimates Volume 3 #1, the abysmal [...]

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I had a horrible nightmare, I dreamed that Marvel brought back those hideous foil covers…..

Sunday, July 12, 2009

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…. Oh God help us, it’s not a dream. In a week where DC released the first issue of the huge Wednesday Comics; something different and rather exciting,  Marvel are bringing back something that became the byword for over-hyped, over-priced non-event comics. The Foil cover is back. The press release: “Marvel is pleased to unveil the special variant [...]

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