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Posted in: Boom, Comics, Comics Publishers, Current News | Tagged: Mark Millar, Tony Fleecs, Uncanny Valley, unfunniesUncanny Valley is a new comic book series from Tony Fleecs and Dave Wachter from Boom Studios in April 2024.Article Summary New comic series 'Uncanny Valley' from Tony Fleecs set for April 2024. Comic explores a boy's strange powers and his family's mysterious past. Tony Fleecs teams with artist Dave Wachter for a magical, robot-filled tale. The series blends humor, heart, and…

The world is coming to an end. In a period known as The After, on a coastal area called The Spit, Ava and Anna are waiting for The Wave. Ava, a young woman who sells sex in the woods, is obsessed with Anna: older, wealthier, an influencer and kept wife who has recently lost her daughter Ada to anorexia. Both Anna and Ava are disaffected, distanced from their broken environment and from themselves. Anna makes regular visits to an unspecified location where she asks people to beat her up “just to check I could still…

Posted in: Comics, Comics Publishers, Current News, Image, Netflix, Pop Culture | Tagged: big game, Kick Ass, Mark MillarThis Wednesday sees the release of the final issue of Big Game by Mark Millar and Pepe Larraz from Image Comics, Millarworld and Netflix.Article Summary Big Game #5 finale unleashes the crossover carnage of Millarworld heroes. Kick-Ass's Dave Lizewski revisits what he did in issue 1 of Big Game. We're not talking about what happens to Hit Girl. But it does lead to a potentially…

Posted in: Comics, Comics Publishers, Current News, DC Comics, Image, Marvel Comics | Tagged: Mark Millar, royaltiesThere has been a lot of chatter recently about page rates for work-for-hire at Marvel and DC Comics. It's time to light the Mark Millar SignalArticle Summary Mark Millar criticizes low page rates for comic artists/writers at Marvel/DC. Millar proposes a radical 50% royalty share to revive the comics industry. He challenges the current system of minimal royalty payments by the Big Two. …

How did queer people in India and other parts of the world experience the Covid-19 pandemic? What kinds of socio-economic support were they able to access during periods of lockdown and quarantine? To what extent did their gender identity and sexual orientation shape their everyday lives? Who were the most marginalized among the marginalized? To dig into these questions, read Queers in Quarantine edited by Koyote Millar and Rahul Sen. Millar is a poet and therapist based in Norway. Sen is a PhD candidate at Tufts…

Posted in: Comics, Comics Publishers, Image | Tagged: big game, Kick Ass, Mark Millar, millarworld, netflix, pepe larraz, wantedBig Game #1 by Mark Millar and Pepe Larraz, the massive Millarworld crossover series dropped a couple of hours ago on Amazon Kindle.Big Game #1  by Mark Millar and Pepe Larraz, the massive Millarworld crossover series between all the Mark Millar Netflix-owned comic books aside from Unfunnies and War Heroes, dropped a couple of hours ago on Amazon Kindle. So where are all the Millarworldians at?…

Jonah Hill Becomes A Dad For The First Time(Photo Credit: Bang Showbiz) Jonah Hill has become a dad. ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ actor, 39, and his rumoured fiancée Olivia Millar, 29, were confirmed on Friday (02.06.23) to have welcomed their first child after Jonah was notably absent from his Beanie Feldstein’s wedding. A representative for the actor confirmed the news of the baby’s birth to People, but the child’s name and sex are unknown. Jonah’s actress sister Beanie, 29, married producer Bonnie Chance in a summer…

| Mark Millar has released an inordinate amount of previews for some of his upcoming Millarworld comic book titles coming through Image Comics in 2023. And, as a fellow member and investor in Blacks, I would be remiss if I weren't to share them with those not party to a funny handshake from the Surrey man himself. He posts out in his newsletter, "Right, today's my last day at work. I'm wrapping up until January and hammering back into work on the third day of the New Year to watch a new cut of American Jesus episodes 1…

| Mark Millar is launching a brand new comic book series, The Ambassadors, so what does that mean? It means a PR stunt or two, in order to get media attention. And today we have two of them. This is not new for Mark Millar, he has a history or successful media manipulation to promote his work and his career, and has a history of doing it better than anyone, even Stan Lee. One of his tricks is working with tame hacks, getting journalists with whom he is friendly in Scottish media, to write very positive PR puff articles…

| In the past, Mark Millar has tried to crossover his then-creator-owned Millarworld comic books for Marvel, Dark Horse, Avatar Press, Top Cow and Image Comics together, with Easter eggs dropped in all over the place. He also managed to crossover his runs on Wolverine, Fantastic Four and 1985 at Marvel together with a common foe in different realities. He also says he sees Chrononauts, Kick-Ass, Huck, Empress, Magic Order, Magic Order and more as all happening in the same universe, albeit at different times and places.…