{"id":307,"date":"2010-04-14T10:13:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T17:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2010-04-14T10:15:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T17:15:21","slug":"before-they-were-stars-2-mark-millar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/before-they-were-stars-2-mark-millar\/","title":{"rendered":"Before They Were Stars #2 Mark Millar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"b18d58\">Not every comic writer or artist starts at the top, working on books like Batman or X-Men. In fact, most don&#8217;t even start at Marvel or DC. Here&#8217;s a look at some work by comic book creators &#8230; before they were stars.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blogimages\/saviour-1.jpg\" alt=\"Saviour #1 by Mark Millar\" align=\"left\" \/>In recent years, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.millarworld.tv\">Mark Millar<\/a> has gained prominence in the comics industry. His credits include launching the <em>Ultimates <\/em>and <em>Ultimate X-Men <\/em>for <strong>Marvel Comics <\/strong>as well as writing one of the best-selling comics of the decade, <em>Civil War<\/em>. His creator-owned title, <em>Wanted<\/em>, was turned into a big-screen movie starring <strong>Angelina Jolie <\/strong>and his next comic-turned-movie, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kickass-themovie.com\/\">Kick-Ass<\/a>, hits theaters this Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Years prior to this, before he even turned 21, he wrote a series called <em>Saviour <\/em>which was published by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/desc.shop.ebay.com\/cyberspacecomics\/m.html?_nkw=%22trident+comics%22&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1&#038;_armrs=1&#038;_from=&#038;_ipg=25&#038;_mPrRngCbx=1&#038;_udhi=&#038;_udlo=\">Trident Comics<\/a> and lasted for six issues. As is common with his creator-owned work, it&#8217;s a curious mix of religion, politics and superheroics. As an interesting note, even as a young writer, it appears his work was something to watch for since <em>Saviour <\/em>was the longest-lasting, non-anthology title that <strong>Trident <\/strong>published.<\/p>\n<p><u>On Ebay<\/u>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/stores.ebay.com\/CyberspaceComics__W0QQ_sacatZCyberspaceComicsQQ_sidZ13296653?_nkw=%22mark+millar%22&#038;submit=Search&#038;LH_TitleDesc=1\">Mark Millar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not every comic writer or artist starts at the top, working on books like Batman or X-Men. In fact, most don&#8217;t even start at Marvel or DC. Here&#8217;s a look at some work by comic book creators &#8230; before they were stars. In recent years, Mark Millar has gained prominence in the comics industry. His [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-before-they-were-comic-book-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberspacecomics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}