Quotes by Mark Millar

About Mark Millar:

Mark Millar is a Scottish comic book writer, known for his work on books such as The Authority, The Ultimates, Marvel Knights Spider-Man, Ultimate Fantastic Four, Civil War, The Secret Service, Wanted, and Kick-Ass, the latter five of which have been, or will be, adapted into feature films.
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Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

Mark Millar

Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost. A walking dead man. A symbol of rebellion that would never fade as long as the system su...

Mark Millar

We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.

Mark Millar

Naked guy think Hulk stupid?

Mark Millar

At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.

Mark Millar

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

Mark Millar

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

Mark Millar

I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.

Mark Millar

Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.

Mark Millar

The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.

Mark Millar

However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because I'm almost certain to pick up some new readers.

Mark Millar

Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.

Mark Millar

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.

Mark Millar

It's been the most creatively liberating thing I've ever done and so I'm bringing some of that mad enthusiasm to Marvel for the next couple of years as they let me loose on some Marvel Universe titles you'll be hearing about soon.

Mark Millar

Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.

Mark Millar

I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue.

Mark Millar

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

Mark Millar

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

Mark Millar

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.

Mark Millar

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.

Mark Millar

Author Bio

  • NameMark Millar
  • DescriptionScottish comic book writer
  • BornDecember 24, 1969
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionCartoonist; Author
  • WorksKick-Ass
  • AwardsMember Of The Order Of The British Empire