Mark Millar's Return To Marvel: Bigger Than Civil War

[ZariusTwo]

"Marvel and DC had both made an open offer to me years ago and every year, they check in with me and say, do you want to do something? I had an idea when I was in Dubai last year, maybe 18 months ago. I was in Dubai, and I was out swimming in the sea. While I was swimming, this Superman story came to me: the beginning, middle, and end of the whole thing. I thought I really needed to write this down, I can't forget this, and as soon as I climbed up into the boat, I said to my wife, you got a pen and paper? And she was like, we're on a boat, how, why would I have paper? I told her the story, and I said don't let me forget a single detail of this. I mentioned it on Twitter a few days later, and Marie Javins [DC Editor-In-Chief] got in touch and said, if you want to do this, do it. So I got a little carve out at work to get 12 weeks where I can go and do something else because sometimes you do, you're a fan right? And I arranged to write that before I do my next Millarworld thing.

"Then I mentioned that I was going to do this, and then Marvel got in touch with me, who are really close friends of mine. I was at Marvel from the end of 2000 up until 2010-ish, but I still hang out with the guys if I'm in New York. I'm in daily contact with some of them. And they said, how the hell could you work for DC if you've got a 12-week thing, then come and do something with us? So I met CB… and it's not a cash thing, I'm not competing to see who'll pay the most or anything, I don't care about the money. But I also have a really good idea for a Marvel project as well."

"I said to CB, I only want to do something at Marvel if I can make it bigger than Civil War or else what's the point? I'm not going to come in and do an Iceman series or something like that. I only want to come in and do something that's going to be bigger than Civil War, and the thing I have is way bigger than Civil War, and Civil War is the biggest-selling graphic novel Marvel's ever had. The biggest in history. I said this is the one thing that could top it and I haven't told him what it is. I'm going to hold off."

"But then somebody made a great point to me, and they said, why would you do the Superman thing when Superman's public domain in nine years time? Just do it in nine year's time, and I was like, yeah, I'll just hold that off on that one then. I'm just going to do the Marvel project instead, so we'll see what happens. The lovely thing about being a writer is you can change your mind at the last minute and go and do anything you like."

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[Andrew NDB]

It's been a little while now since Millar has done anything that has wowed me. But when he was good, he was good.

A pity he never got to finish out a Kick-Ass trilogy in film. Or that relaunch he was courting Rosario Dawson with that... didn't sound too great.

[Coola Yagami]

Was Civil War really that big though? Even bigger than Secret Wars? Or the Infinity Gauntlet?

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Was Civil War really that big though? Even bigger than Secret Wars? Or the Infinity Gauntlet?

Yes, as far as impact went, Civil War led to several seismic changes in the Marvel landscape that are still being felt to this day. Some characters remain affected by it, some characters (especially Spider-Man and Iron Man) still haven't recovered from it.