Mark Millar: Cheap-@ss

Seriously, first he is a sell out and makes copious amounts of money not only on his popular comics, but off of the box office hits based on his comics. Then he can't even help boost the world economy by actually purchasing his own comics, and he is proud of how cheap he is.

Does anyone else feel a little put off about this?

Generation Hope #1

I have been reading Uncanny X-Men the few months and I was really wondering what they were going to do with Hope and the new mutants that she has been recovering for the past four issues. I was also wondering when Hope was going to get her own book, and with Generation Hope, Marvel has answered both of my questions.

Kick-Ass 2 #1

Last week when I heard that this issue was coming out, I had almost forgot that Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. were going to make a sequel to Kick-Ass. At first I was excited, then I was disappointed when I heard that the book was going to follow what happened in the movie, and not what happened in the previous comic series. But after finally reading the comic, I am not disappointed at all.

Kicking Ass With First Class?

According to Entertainment Weekly, 20th Century Fox has approached director Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass) to helm X-Men: First Class. Interestingly enough, Vaughn was originally signed on to direct X-Men: The Last Stand (responsible for the casting of both Kelsey Grammer and Vinnie Jones), but dropped out because he felt Fox's short schedule didn't give him enough time to make the movie he wanted to. I thought that he had left on bad terms, but apparently not too bad if Fox is offering the X-franchise to him once again.

As a director, Vaughn is more than capable. He only has three films under his belt: Kick-Ass, Stardust, and Layer Cake, all three of which - while vastly different in tone and style - I enjoyed greatly. My guess is the higher-ups at Fox...

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Kick-Ass ≥ Child Pornography?

So i was on Rotten Tomatoes seeing how Kick-Ass was fairing on there and I stumbled across this review of the movie. In this review a writer from the New Yorker discusses his distaste for the film, the directors, and almost everything else about the movie.

One thing that bothered me the most about the review is that he keeps blaming the two men who wrote the screenplay for the violent substance of the movie, never referencing Mark Millar even once. I feel as though his relation of the movie to child pornography is a little outrageous and I am not alone in this matter. There are 50+ comments on his review on the site that criticize him for his comparison.

Anyways, I'd like to hear what other think of the review so here is a link

Kick-Ass Review