New Kick-Ass posters!

I’ve no time to discusss these in any detail as the girlfriend’s parents are arriving for the weekend in afew hours and if she gets home and discovers I haven’t hoovered it will be my ass getting kicked, so let’s just say “Holy shit Batman!” and leave it at that.

Mark Millar interview! Part 2: Kick-Ass, Wanted, Superman and being called a “F****** punk” by one of your heroes!

Seasons’ greetings! It’s Christmas Day, and even though I’m not really here because this is an automated post and I’m most likely pissed as a fart by now, I’d like to wish you all the very best for Christmas. Have a drink for me. I’ll certainly be having one for you.
This is the second part [...]

Mark Millar interview! Part 1: Kick-Ass movie special!

Luckily this interview with Mark Millar was not conducted during last weekend’s marathon bevvy session when the Scottish-based members of his MillarWorld website hit a boozer in Airdrie, because the pish we ended up talking was quite something to behold. Guinness will do that to you. No, this wee blether with Coatbridge’s finest exponent of [...]

Mark Millar and John Romita Jr put me on the back cover of Kick-Ass #3!

I’ve been up to my eyes in it the past couple of weeks and never got the chance to scan in the supercool news that I made it on to the back cover of Kick-Ass #3.
I wrote up a review on the second issue a while back and was well chuffed to see part of [...]

Review of Kick-Ass #3 by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr

Fuck me. If you’re one of those geeks who flick to the final page of a comic first then Kick-Ass #3 will make you shoot your load. All over your comic shop. I shit you not. I just read it and it was a rivers-of-jism moment.
A nice bloke called Michael Horwitz, who’s an editorial assistant [...]

Mark Millar interview in The Herald

Teddy Jamieson of The Herald has a cracking interview with a rather dapper Mark Millar in today’s paper that perhaps inadvertently reveals a couple of tidbits about the upcoming big-screen adaptaion of the writer’s Kick-Ass comic.
It’s been an open secret that Matthew Vaughn will be directing the movie since Ain’t It Cool got the scoop [...]

Kick-Ass Wednesday! Issue 2 review!

Visually stunning and unstintingly brutal, the second issue of Kick-Ass is a blood-soaked, ingeniously choreographed homage to old-school Marvel that packs a solid emotional whammy amid the ultra-violence.
Just when you thought every possible superhero story had been uncovered and done to death, this comes along and rewrites the formula. The misfit who becomes a costumed [...]

Kick-Ass: A Coatbridge special about the new comic from Mark Millar and John Romita Jr

Mark Millar comes from Coatbridge. Some of the people that helped out with the viral campaign for his new comic, Kick-Ass, come from Coatbridge. I live in Coatbridge. The writer’s MillarWorld website had a special Kick-Ass Wednesday celebration yesterday when the first issue landed in comic stores across America. But here in Scotland, we don’t [...]

Mark Millar’s Kick-Ass banner

So, Mark Millar put out a call to arms on his board, asking for folk to come up with a Kick-Ass banner that he could use for a signature in his posts. Kick-Ass is, of course, his new comic with Joltin’ John Romita Jr, and it even has its own MySpace page.
Anyway, I took a [...]

Viral video, a comic book first from Mark Millar?

On the same day that I stumbled across a 14-year-old article about comic book writer Mark Millar in the archives of the paper I work for, the man in question reveals he has created a viral marketing campaign to generate interest in his new project, Kick-Ass.
Of course, the technique is nothing new. As far back [...]