Jesus, Man. Why Do People Want To

There Probably Aren't A Lot Of New Superheroes Around, So Whenever One Appears, It Makes A Bit Of Noise. Really, Most Of The People Who Are My Friends Write Characters They Loved As Children. I Get That, As Well, Because That's Why I Got Into Comics. But I'm Also Taking This Massive Liberation Creatively, Going Off And Doing New Stuff. The First And Foremost Reason I Do It Is Because I Think They're Fun, And I Can Do Anything I Want. I'm Not Constrained By Continuity.

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.

The Glass Is Always Completely Full-half Air And Half Liquid.

When I Was A Kid Growing Up In The '80s, The Bbc Showed Those Old Buster Crabbe Serials Like Flash Gordon And Buck Rogers. So Instead Of Ponderous Sci-fi Or Depressing Sci-fi Or Dystopian Sci-fi And All The Things We're Kind Of Used To, Where It's Always Raining And It's Always Dark, I Thought, "wouldn't It Be Nice To Do Something That Was Just Fun And Absolutely Nonstop?" Like, I Love Writing Action, And This Thing Is That. It's All Action.

For Years I've Wanted To Work With This Guy, So To Actually Write At The Top Of My Scripts "empress, Script By Mark Millar, Art By Stuart Immonen" Is An Absolute Pleasure.