I tried to keep the ranting about Mark Millar to a minimum in these pieces, but here's where I'm coming from.
I had read very little of Millar before this. I was vaguely familiar with some of his Marvel stuff that pissed people off, with Captain America being an asshole and so on. But mostly what I remember is when I discovered the Warren Ellis comic The Authority. Now, The Authority is a purposely over-the-top hyper-violent, profane, cynical, filthy and often very funny comic. Nothing about it is in good taste, but Ellis keeps it interesting, and I was really getting into it. But then at a certain point I felt like it had abruptly changed into a half-assed adolescent parody of itself, leering and smirking in ways that were just no longer funny except in the sense that "Cards Against Humanity" is funny. I wondered, had Ellis had lost it, or had my tastes changed? No, it's just that the writer was now Mark Millar.
I'm told Red Son is good so I'll probably read that.
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I had read very little of Millar before this. I was vaguely familiar with some of his Marvel stuff that pissed people off, with Captain America being an asshole and so on. But mostly what I remember is when I discovered the Warren Ellis comic The Authority. Now, The Authority is a purposely over-the-top hyper-violent, profane, cynical, filthy and often very funny comic. Nothing about it is in good taste, but Ellis keeps it interesting, and I was really getting into it. But then at a certain point I felt like it had abruptly changed into a half-assed adolescent parody of itself, leering and smirking in ways that were just no longer funny except in the sense that "Cards Against Humanity" is funny. I wondered, had Ellis had lost it, or had my tastes changed? No, it's just that the writer was now Mark Millar.
I'm told Red Son is good so I'll probably read that.