Video games aren't on the level of any of those other vices, hence my point. The idea that a video game isn't sophisticated enough, or only for "kiddies;" well. Those who have never read a modern day comic feel that comics are just for kids.

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Well, you had said that you found it funny that a comicbook writer would find something beneath him, not that he found something to be unsophisticated and for the "kiddies"...slight difference, ergo my joke.

I agree that when you have Millar pandering to the media that he's all about "opening eyes to what's going on in the United States via the comic medium" and then "joking" about things being for kids, it just shoot himself in the foot.

Besides, we all know at least one Civil War delay was probably because Millar was too busy playing X-Box 360.

*looks at his comic shelf*

*sees every TPB written by Millar*

*is glad he find his work fun to read and can seperate the work from the writer, even though he has nothing against the writer*

*realizes he forgot this was the internet for a second and getting scanadlized over everything is what the internet does*

Sorry, My bad!

See, I used to enjoy Millar until I got tired of his "potshots" and whining in his writing, so I freely admit, it's become harder for me to separate the writer from his writings.

I currently feel the same way about Judd Winnick. He is very talented in writing dialogue, but his PC/social commentary in every title has worn me thin on his work.

I'd back you on that one but if I say that about two writers in a row people are going to think I've been brainwashed by JacinB or that I'm one of the coldest hearted people reading comics.

Seriously, I don't mind comics being used to deliver messages - again, I cite "Maus" as an excellent example of how it can be done - but don't ram it down my throat and, perhaps more importantly, if your "message" is an opinion (such as Millar's viewpoints) don't paint the opposing side as "villainous" or "naive" or something equally demeaning - if you can't present your side by presenting it on its merits but by tearing down the other one, don't expect me to enjoy your "commentary".

To the original poster: No need to apologize. Mark Millar is an idiot.

Ironic since that seems to be his favorite word and can't write a single comic book without including it.

Go away Millar. You were good once. Your day is done. Take you money and run.

Kind of like how I used to enjoy your posts until you started degrading those hard working pimps of the world...

Yeah, Rokk. Pimps and russian #####s are some of DS's best 'friends'.

Tsk tsk. You forgot some very important jobs:

Leech/Murderer (AKA Howard K Stern)
Politician
Political Lobbyist
Skeptic (seriously, how can you be a 'professional skeptic'? By not believing anything? Or by just being a jerkwad and slamming anyone's opinions?)
Goldmining Wife
Hypocritical Religious Leader


See? Many other jobs out there are the scummiest in the universe!

am i the only one who thinks it is kinda ironic to call someone an idiot and misspell their name while doing it? just curious......

by the way, there is a fairly good chance that this is all an example of misunderstood slang or something like that, if i remember correctly where millar is from a cigarette is called a "fag", and no one really gets all that crazy about that particular word being used for something that gives people cancer.

Um, sure. Whatever dude.

wow, I'm still reading the interview, but this struck me as.... just.... wow.

"The closest thing to porn when you're nine years old is seeing that explosion of color with 50 superheroes together in a single image. I used to stare at the insides of my hardback Marvel Annuals every year as a little kid on Christmas morning. It genuinely got me off trying to remember all the names. That's why I insisted on all those big multi-character covers. This was aimed at the eight year olds as much as the 40 year olds. Something happens on every page."

o.....................kay.

Yeah sorry about that. I get my Milla(e)rs all mixed.

And from what I can tell it's his "thing" to call things he doesn't care much for as "for pedos". So far it's better claim to fame than his last work.

Man, Millar must be pretty impressed with himself if he thought he was gonna make something as remembered as Crisis on Infinite Earths while suffering from a debilitateing medical condition out of some idea dredged up in 10 minutes in the back of a cab.

Reading that interview makes me wonder if Millar genuinely has some mental condition that makes it hard for him to perceive reality properly. I can't fathom how he thought that Iron Man's side wasn't presented negatively, they built their own MODOK, only they skipped the computation and went straight to killing.

It makes me disappointed and worried that Wheadon was apparently the one that thought up that ending, but then the story had already run itself into the ground anyway so I guess there wasn't really much else to do.

I don't understand how there could have been a huge meeting of dozens of writers that somehow let Clor get created and Mar-Vell get brought back, someone had to have known that those were terrible terrible ideas on so many levels.