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Wy rant is perfectly in keeping with a thread dedicated to criticism of Millars massive heid, I think. Did you miss other posters making comments like "22 carrat cold prick" or "cheeky c*nt" earlier.

I popped after reading the Mill-Meisters sycophantic wikki page because this seems to be the only open criticism on the web.

Is unlikely that Millar lets anyone perform a hack-job on his own website. Besides, its water of a ducks back to that one.  

Even I enjoyed The Ultimates.

But just as per his run on  Ultimate X-men Millar has been in a position to steal from or "ultimatize" 50 years of ground breaking comics and give them a new coat of paint by ensuring he only works with the best artists.

Even the much maligned chuck dixon could sell a million rehashing old plots with artists like brian hitch.

Personally I have enjoyed some of Millars work. Some i've found a bit "meh".

But I swear, every time I read a word in print which comes directly from his flapping, self-important mouth, I cringe.




 

3 years or 2000, whats your point fanboy?
And what argument are you refering to?

Perhalps Arts refering to borderline vandalism like this:-

"Unlike many comic book writers mark does not seem to shy away from courting the media, particularly for self-promotion. The creation of the web site "Millarworld" and the creator owned comic book runs entitled "Millarworld 1" and the upcoming "Millarworld 2" appear to be demonstrative of an effort to establish himself as a comic book brand. Mark also has a habit of name dropping other famous comic book writers when discussing his own work."

All factually correct and, I think objective.

lol.

Yet the statements which refer to his work as "inventive" and "edgy" seem to remain, despite being utter bullshit.

Have we found our editor?

Check out Millars page on wikipedia. What a bunch of buttkissers - any critical content is deleted in about a milisecond.

If you hate the fella now, read some of his interviews via the links on the page. What a arrogant git.

"Well I don't mean to blow my own packer, but I'm the best thing that ever happened to comics"...I paraphrase of course, but he surely is a bell end.

He finally stopped riding Morisson's coat tales.
Now he just ensures that he drops names like Bendis and Whedon any time he talks about his own -ahem- work. Just goes to show that knowing how to work the Media can supercede actual talent.

And why do his characters always end dialogue with an exclamation - mister!

I got no Idea - Bub!

Maybe its a verbal tick - Champ!

G.R.A.T.I.N.G.

Boy did I get Paul Cornwell wrong. I sincerely apologise for my knee jerk reaction.

I think I Pauls opinions. However, I feel the approach was too scattergun. I fall into none of the obvious categories. I'm neither a stinky hippy nor a smug middle class intellectual (I suppose you will have to trust me on this). Yet I obviously got stung in the crossfire.

Anyhow, a few points I want to express my feelings on if thats ok -

1) The ODDLY LOGO HERE thing does of course show the irony of the situation, but is maybe a tad disingenuous. Symbols have always been used to externalise human belief - whether Icons of Brands. They are demonstrably a very effective way of putting across a message. Why shouldn't the anti-globalisers be able to use them. There is a big difference between wearing a POP Idols T-shirt and, say, an Anti-Apathy tee shirt. The difference being what they represent. No hypocrisy necessary.

2) As I understand it there is no cohesive anti-globalisation movement. It is full of disparate groups with often wildly different agendas and extremes of opinion. Socialists and Anarchists and Anti-Capitalists make up a proportion, but are by no means representative. Some have attempted to claim the impetus as their own, without much success. In short anti-globalisation does not simply equal to anti-global. Anti-Globalisers are against the way things are, not against the way they could be. It will take a global approach to make things work (Incidentally Keynes, the big daddy of economic theory cracked that one after WW2. Unfortunately the proposals were too fair for the 'winners' who elected to adopt a more biased, and given the results completely flawed, alternative). If Paul has a way to unite the numerous groups under a cohesive strategy, I'd love to hear it. While I make it a point to buy fair trade coffee, and don't buy Nike, I have to acknowledge that it really is just p*ssing in the wind.
 
3) Paulvonscott said 'it's worth taking the piss out of people who go around being self righteous and not actually doing anything apart from tell other people to follow their lead, whatever it is'. This is unreasonable. Public awareness of the issues involved, though growing, is still limited. Slips felt he could adequately summarise it as capitalism = bad, and seemed satisfied that this was a suitably enlightened statement. It was not. The issues are complex and many layered. And until public awareness hits a certain threshold there will never be anything more than lip-service. Put it this way - prior to IRAQ WARS Episode 2, there were mass worldwide demonstrations the likes of which have never been seen. The marchers were simply dismissed by Blair as misguided. So it seems are all protestors and activists, for various issues.
The only reasonable course of action, in my mind, would be to try and pass on information to others, in the hope that enough people will eventually be informed and motivated enough to have an impact. Granted there are ways to do it, people don't respond well to preaching, but the problem is a lot of people just couldn't care less. Why bother about the plight of little brown babies when you've got a movie to see. So if it comes to siding with someone who, though smelly and barking mad, is behaving that way because of a passionate concern about injustices in the world, or siding with someone who really just doesn't want his day interrupted, I'm going to pick the former every time.


4) Slips reckons I'm just reinforcing the Stereotype. What type would that be? Where am I coming from? What do I believe in? Stereotypes are formed from ignorance or indifference, on all sides of the debate.

5) Seattle came into the firing line, presumable because of the profile of the successful demonstrations that aborted the G8  summit. That even big fat Americans get the issues is something to be celebrated!

6)The Kurt Cobain/Seattle  aspect is simply a quirk of fate. I'm quite sure that the majority of those protestors wouldn't have given a monkeys about the band. Regardless, whether he died because of his principles, or just because he was daft as a brush is irrelevant.  At the end of the day he represents something to some people. So, between someone who puts Kurt on a pedestal and someone who worships at the alter of prince william, I reckon you know where Ill fall.  

So, unless your a member of the red cross, you can't take a position against, say, the routine collapsing of the economies of developing nations by the IMF to fill the bank accounts of rich western bussiness.

And unless you wear clothes hand woven from the twigs you can't for instance say that Nike are a shower of shallow exploitative corporate c*nts.

And no doubt if you ever swallowed an asprin you couldn't comment on the moral values of drugs companies charging sky high prices for drugs that cost a fraction of the cost to make. Or on how they are using the WTO to put a strangle hold on those countries that make generic medicines simply to increase profits, thereby passing death sentences on millions.

Obviously middle england joined the anti-war protests because it was fashionable. Couldn't possibly be that they actually cared about people they don't even know.

Damn those idiot liberals. Why can't they shut up and let me eat my burger.

self-right?eous (slfrchs)
adj.
Piously sure of one's own righteousness; moralistic.

I can state, with complete assurance that 4 year old kids having to work shifts in coffee plantations simply to avoid starvation is quite a bad thing. Not sure if that makes me self righteous.

Ive never really liked grungey dreadlocked vegan alternative lifestyle types myself. I wear a suit and tie to work, read comic books, eat juicy steaks and buy records in virgin.

But I can see where they're coming from, and just because someone is a pompous twat doesn't mean they're wrong.

As far as doing nothing else but smugly telling other people, ive heard that before. But unless your superman, telling other people some of whats going on in the world is about all that can be done.

New series of big brother soon. Something to look forward too.

Had been quite enjoying Paul Cornells XTINT up until the recent meg. But this months bitter little bile load really nipped my arse. Cornwell clearly thinks everyones in on the joke. Frankly I just found it distastful.

Not-Us. Some kind of riff on No Logo right? That would be the best selling book which finally brough home how western corporate ethics allow children to work shifts in sweat shops making factories. The anti-globalisers and...I quote..how "their kind killed the world when only the global approach would have saved it."  Yep, there was definitely more "excrement than usual" but it wasn't just the forced dialogue.
 
Id advise cornell to get a fecking clue. As if. Hes probably to busy watching pop idol and pulling the little head off over his hero George Dubbya Bush.

Message Ends.
 

The artists offer the stuff on their own web sites for more reasonable values.
The only thing worse than some shyster trying to charge 1K + for a comic book painting is the muppet willing to fork out for it. As with everything else, know your market.

Apparently immigrants (i do hate to generalise but it helps the point) in this country collectively pay more in taxes than they obtain in benefits. Which means we're actually running at a profit. To me thats the end of the argument.

Life Boat Britian my arse.

Apparently immigrants (i do hate to generalise but it halps the point) in this country collectively pay more in taxes than they obtain in benefits. Which means we're actually running at a profit. To me thats the end of the argument.

Life Boat Britian my arse.

"When you're writing books like The Ultimates, Ultimate X-Men and so on, it's easy to play it safe and just write top five titles all the time, but I think that's slightly immoral when you've come from the small press scene and worked your way up through smaller publishers. What I'm trying to do with the Millarworld line is balance my career in the same way George Clooney did by balancing Ocean's Eleven with his own projects like Confessions of the Dangerous Mind."

"Mark Millar = george clooney. Jeez! The guy thinks he should be running marvel.
MARK MILLAR has lectured and acted as a consultant on a wide variety of interests including the Scottish Education Board and a national chain of restaurants where he is creating a number of new characters for promotional purposes. He is also available to act as a consultant for comic-book publishers, providing new ideas, line restructuring and advice regarding possible creative changes. To arrange an appointment or ask for a quotation, please click on the link below"

Clearly not a man hampered by the fact that his writing is a bit shite.

Cool we bit from the file -

The hulk is the manifestation of Bruces deeply buried anger.

Bruces daddy however manifests his powers as an ability to absorb the properties of anything he touches. Its not spelled out in the movie, but David says something about his wife and the knife seeming to merge into one.

Interesting!

Let Dan Abbnet carry out whatever plans he had for friday.

Knotted continuity aside, the last episode fridays adventures (part written by Dan) was essentially a reboot of the rogue trooper universe.

A new creative team, unmired by fitting stories within established continuity would have a half decent chance of producing the goods.