[imgl]http://ultimatecentral.com/images/news-millar.jpg[/imgl] ComiX-Fan has an interview up with upcoming Ultimate Fantastic Four writer Mark Millar, in which Millar talks a little about his upcoming run as well as how the team fits in with The Ultimates.
CXF: It's recently been announced you're returning to Ultimate Fantastic Four after handing the reins off to Warren Ellis. What are your plans for that title?
MM: Like I said, I want to make the book enormously idea-driven and packed tight with content. No story runs for more than three issues. This won't be a Junior Reader book in the same way that my Superman Adventures books were, but I really like writing material children can enjoy and my Superman Adventures books were very popular with adults too. Nobody actually BOUGHT my bloody stuff in those days, but the people who bought them really liked them and I was lucky enough to be nominated for a few Eisners and so on.
I'd really like to tap into that sense of fun and wonder that's really at the heart of the FF and do the kind of book that a kid can enjoy as much as all those people who buy Ultimates 2 every month. The first storyline is called Crossover and it's a meeting between our young Reed Richards and the denizens of a parallel universe he discovers featuring a Reed and Sue who tied the knot a few years back, have a couple of kids and have an Avengers where the Ultimate FF have The Ultimates. Sound familiar? After this, we have Tomb of Namor and the undersea pyramids of Atlantis and then we round off the year with two other three parters I can't talk about yet.
I'm writing the Namor story at the moment and they've given us an extra couple of issues head-start (courtesy of Mike Carey and Jae Lee) so the brilliant Greg Land can draw all twelve issues of our run without delays or interruptions. I'm really surprised how much I'm enjoying this book. I'm really having a good time on everything at the moment, but this is such a change of pace for me that I just can't wait to get stared in the mornings.
CXF: Speaking of the Ultimate Universe, careful readers (read: obsessive compulsive fanboys, like yours truly) have noticed a small continuity glitch in the titles. Early in your first volume of The Ultimates as the team is forming, you make mention of the Fantastic Four. But in the first story arc of Ultimate Fantastic Four during their first adventure, the Ultimates are mentioned. So...which came first? Is this the first Ultimate time paradox? Is Kang involved somehow? Or should we all just relax and enjoy life?
MM: Just blame bloody Bendis for not reading Ultimates #2!!! Actually, he was laughing about this recently and asked me to cover this as soon as possible in Ultimate Fantastic Four and I have this little thing that covers it all in two panels in my first issue. I won't spoil and it's so tiny that only the eagle-eyed will even spot it.
Read the interview in its entirity - complete with lengthy discussion on Wolverine and Millarworld titles - at http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=32486
CXF: It's recently been announced you're returning to Ultimate Fantastic Four after handing the reins off to Warren Ellis. What are your plans for that title?
MM: Like I said, I want to make the book enormously idea-driven and packed tight with content. No story runs for more than three issues. This won't be a Junior Reader book in the same way that my Superman Adventures books were, but I really like writing material children can enjoy and my Superman Adventures books were very popular with adults too. Nobody actually BOUGHT my bloody stuff in those days, but the people who bought them really liked them and I was lucky enough to be nominated for a few Eisners and so on.
I'd really like to tap into that sense of fun and wonder that's really at the heart of the FF and do the kind of book that a kid can enjoy as much as all those people who buy Ultimates 2 every month. The first storyline is called Crossover and it's a meeting between our young Reed Richards and the denizens of a parallel universe he discovers featuring a Reed and Sue who tied the knot a few years back, have a couple of kids and have an Avengers where the Ultimate FF have The Ultimates. Sound familiar? After this, we have Tomb of Namor and the undersea pyramids of Atlantis and then we round off the year with two other three parters I can't talk about yet.
I'm writing the Namor story at the moment and they've given us an extra couple of issues head-start (courtesy of Mike Carey and Jae Lee) so the brilliant Greg Land can draw all twelve issues of our run without delays or interruptions. I'm really surprised how much I'm enjoying this book. I'm really having a good time on everything at the moment, but this is such a change of pace for me that I just can't wait to get stared in the mornings.
CXF: Speaking of the Ultimate Universe, careful readers (read: obsessive compulsive fanboys, like yours truly) have noticed a small continuity glitch in the titles. Early in your first volume of The Ultimates as the team is forming, you make mention of the Fantastic Four. But in the first story arc of Ultimate Fantastic Four during their first adventure, the Ultimates are mentioned. So...which came first? Is this the first Ultimate time paradox? Is Kang involved somehow? Or should we all just relax and enjoy life?
MM: Just blame bloody Bendis for not reading Ultimates #2!!! Actually, he was laughing about this recently and asked me to cover this as soon as possible in Ultimate Fantastic Four and I have this little thing that covers it all in two panels in my first issue. I won't spoil and it's so tiny that only the eagle-eyed will even spot it.
Read the interview in its entirity - complete with lengthy discussion on Wolverine and Millarworld titles - at http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=32486
