Let's Constructively criticize a former droid then (Millar of course)

[dweezil2]

Despite the perception of Millar as an arragant egotist, something I can neither confirm or deny as A: I've never met the bloke and B: I've not read many interviews with him. My opinion is based upon the comics of his I have read. I'm probably in the minority here as I enjoyed some of his Dredd work-Purgatory in particular and his Marvel series The Ultimates, was one of the few essential US comics I felt worthy of collecting. Not read any of his Fantastic Four stuff, so can't comment.

I'm slightly dubious about the point of this thread however. Is it just because current creators are felt to be now off limits for criticism that it's felt the need to attack a "legitimate" target, who hasn't produced anything for 2000ad in a long time and who seems to be generally disliked by the community as a whole?
If so, this doesn't seem to be particularly constructive either.

[Grant Goggans]

The Grudge-Mother came from the second series, which was written by Nigel Long...

[+rufus+]

Interessting you started this thread with the opener,' acceptable target'..

By who's reckoning exactly? I think you may be going about this all wrong.

 By all means write a critique of Millar's work, but what is your objective, if not just to shoot him down?

Ahh...

I give up.

[jabish]

Quote: "Interessting you started this thread with the opener,' acceptable target'.. By who's reckoning exactly? I think you may be going about this all wrong. By all means write a critique of Millar's work, but what is your objective, if not just to shoot him down?"

I guess you're right Rufus. I may have gone about it wrong. The title of this thread is very dodge and I should have worded it better, pity there's no way to change that here.

What I was looking to do was to vent my annoyance at Millar's bragging and grandstanding in the comics press when some of the material he's bragging about is nothing special () and I was wondering if its just me? I also stated that I do like a lot of what he's done or is doing. Just looking for a bit of discussion on the discussion board is all. And I thought here might be a good place to bring it up as people seem widely read and not 'Marvel zombies' (nothing wrong with bein a marvel zombie tho).

That's why I started the thread but I think my paragraph at the beginning may have got it off on the wrong foot. There I just wanted to make a little comment on what was happening on other threads. I should have posted that there maybe.

Not to worry leave the thread die. As I said I didn't want to offend or annoy anyone.

Best to all


Jamie Beamish

[Jared Katooie]

"I suspect that one-to-one Mark Miller is probably a decent enough bloke.*"

Alan Grant let him stay in his house and thent he guy went and made fun of his decor! That's some pretty uncool behaviour right there...

I have to say, I like his mindless action approach sometimes, but I feel he has trouble with the endings of his stories. There doesn't seem to be any logical reason for his heroes to succeed apart from the fact that they get really, really mad.

[Darren Stephens]

Erm, heh, just got Civil War today after seeing it in HMV for a fiver. Its not that bad, script wise, but the art is awesomeness! Anyhoo, do we really need this thread? After all the negativity lately? :-/

[jabish]

like i said apologies for starting it - leave it die sure.

best

jb

[House of Usher]

*Bump*

[Richard]

JBC,
Tony Blair didn't commit suicide, he just blew up London. Doesn't mean he was still in London when it happened.

[Richmond Clements]

Peronally, I loved his Civil War stuff.

I dunno about anyone else, but when I read a superhero book, the kind of this I want to see are thing like Capt America escaping from SHIELD by surfing the back of a jet fighter- and these are the kind of things he delivered in Civil War.
I don't give a shit about anything but entertainment in superhero books, and Millar delivers that.

[Satanist]

Don't think I've read any of his Dredd. I really enjoyed Chosen, Unfunnies, Red Son and a run he had on Spiderman.

I enjoyed Wanted right up until the last page and then the red mist descended.

[Art]

Red Son is pretty much teh ets thing he's done, IMHO, and one of my favourite Superman peices. The Ultimates, when it's firing on all cylinders at least, is pretty rocking as well, with the cheap insertion of ripped-from-the-headlines stuff that may or may not work being a part of that.

Some of his Swamp Thing stand alone peices are damn good horror stories as well, and I particulalry like the Man In The High Castle one. FWIW I dug Silo as well.

The Morrison/Millar scripted Aztek trade I just bought, on the other hand, is pretty awful.

[WoD]

I met him at Brighton when he came over to the FQ table, he was very friendly, nice, chatty with some interesting stuff to say - and he listened too.  Bolt and RAC were there too.

[Richmond Clements]

Ohhh! I forgot about that!

You're right, he was rather nice guy!

And I liked Big Dave!

[WoD]

He had the SFX guy with him (Steve I think).  And he BOUGHT the End Is Nigh.