Comments on: Kick-Ass: Creating the Comic, Making the Movie

By: Carlton Banks

Carlton Banks — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:07:23 +0000

Thanks. Of course after Zero Hour it’ll have all been moot anyway (unless it was for after then)

By: Johanna

Johanna — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:44:10 +0000

I’ll ask KC what else he remembers about it.

By: Carlton Banks

Carlton Banks — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:23:40 +0000

I really want to know more about Mark Millar’s LSH pitch! Can you give us the full details please? Was this around the time Of the Giffen 5 years later era?

By: Daniel Smith

Daniel Smith — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:15:40 +0000

I haven’t read any of the comics or any of Miller’s prior work and I loved the movie. But then again I also love zombie movies so take from that what you will.
I reminded me of Spiderman (comic/movie), Fight Club, and watchmen(comic only).

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By: James Van Hise

James Van Hise — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:49:37 +0000

The movie improves on the comic in one important way. It’s not misogynistic. The main character’s girlfriend in the comic is awful and comes across like Mark Miller getting revenge on someone, while in the movie she’s actually nice.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:23:47 +0000

James, it wouldn’t surprise me to find that the movie hangs together better than the comic. I found the same thing to be true of Iron Man — there’s something about the filmmaking process that sharpens and improves the comic material in some cases.

Rich, Superman Adventures had some issues, too. I remember being surprised at him writing Superman killing a sentient robot.

Raphael, I think some would disagree that there’s no hidden agenda. If you want to take the “relax, enjoy it, don’t think about it” approach, cool — but some of us enjoy entertainment more after we’ve analyzed it, appreciating a multi-leveled approach.

By: Raphael Malveaux

Raphael Malveaux — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:09:04 +0000

Loosen up! He’s not trying to convert anyone or change your life. It’s all in fun, unlike the current teabagger fetish. Watch and enjoy with ample popcorn. Good, fun movies without hidden agendas are rare these days. I’ll be parked in my seat on opening day, and several additional days, if it is as good as I expect.

By: Jonathan Nolan

Jonathan Nolan — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:03:10 +0000

From 2000AD to now I didn’t rate the guy, commercial success or not. As for Kick-Ass he lost me completely when he claimed it was the most realistic comicbook evar. Really? Seriously? How stupid.

The film- well such things are no more than christmas paper wrapped mind control so watch it at your peril. Mind control media is better at influencing all of us than we give it credit for, if you participate in the hype even by reading or watching anything to do with it you will only have yourself to blame. :)

By: Rich Johnston

Rich Johnston — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:01:59 +0000

It seems like he’s followed an audience. Have people read his Superman Adventures work? Some of his best stuff, along with Swamp Thing and Red Son…

By: James Moar

James Moar — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:57:18 +0000

His work way back on 2000AD already had quite a few of the traits he’s known for now.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:34:34 +0000

Would it be safe to say that Millar entered this phase around his Authority run? Because I can’t remember his earlier stuff being anything like this, but I was quite young in those days

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By: James Moar

James Moar — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:27:32 +0000

Kick-Ass was released a couple of weeks ago in the UK, and I liked it despite having similar poor feelings about Millar’s work. I’ll admit to only having had a fairly quick flip through the comic, but really got the impression that the film’s far more sympathetic to the characters (especially the lead) than the comic.

By: Alexandre Mandarino

Alexandre Mandarino — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:06:54 +0000

Millar is awful. I can’t stand his work, his quotes, his stupid public persona, his poor Michael Bay sense of spectacle. And he’s an awful writer. All this even tainted what I liked about his Swamp Thing run at the time.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:02:34 +0000

There are a handful of short blurbs from him, yes. I mostly remember him saying how Millar is his favorite writer to work with ever and discussing how the costumes were different between comic and film versions.

By: Nick Marino

Nick Marino — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:26:26 +0000

interesting review. lots of good stuff brought up.

does JRjr get any quotes / behind the scenes time in the book?