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First look at Mark Millar’s Prodigy #1

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Image Comics has unveiled a first look at Prodigy #1, the first issue of the new Netflix and Millarworld comic book series from Mark Millar (Kick-Ass) and Rafael Albuquerque (Batman), which is set to launch this December. Check it out here… In PRODIGY, Edison Crane’s not content being the world’s smartest man and most successful […]

Hit-Girl to hunt Hollywood’s sexual predators in new Kevin Smith-penned comic series

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Mark Millar has announced that Mindy McCready is turning her sights to Hollywood’s sexual predators in a brand new comic book series entitled Hit-Girl: The Golden Rage of Hollywood, which is being penned by Kevin Smith with art from Pernille Orum. Here’s a look at the cover to the first issue by Francesco Francavilla… “I wrote […]

Netflix announces new Mark Millar comic book series Prodigy

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Netflix and Millarworld have announced the upcoming launch of the new comic book series Prodigy from Mark Millar, which reunites the writer with Huck artist Rafael Albuquerque. SEE ALSO: Netflix announces first batch of Millarworld TV series and films In Prodigy, the world’s smartest man isn’t content with running the world’s most successful business. His […]

Kick-Ass: The New Girl Vol. 1 set for release in September

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Image Comics has announced the upcoming release of Kick-Ass: The New Girl Vol. 1, a trade paperback collecting issues #1 to #6 of the new Kick-Ass story arc from Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr. In KICK-ASS: THE NEW GIRL, VOL. 1, Kick-Ass returns readier than ever to wipe out the city’s criminal lowlives, destroy […]

Netflix releases trailer for Mark Millar’s The Magic Order

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Netflix has released a trailer for The Magic Order, an upcoming comic book series from Mark Millar and Olivier Coipel, which is set to be published through Image Comics and marks the first comic book project from the streaming giant following their acquisition of Millarworld last year. Take a look at the trailer here… We […]

Mark Millar explains why he thinks Marvel movies are more successful than DC films

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In the ten years since the release of Iron Man back in 2008, Marvel Studios has enjoyed enormous, unprecedented success with its Cinematic Universe, both in terms of critical acclaim and box office (it’s the highest grossing franchise in history, with over $14 billion in receipts). DC on the other hand hasn’t had the easiest […]

Comic Book Review – Kick-Ass #1

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Harrison Abbott reviews Kick-Ass #1… In October 2014, Mark Millar appeared to definitively finish with one his most lucrative properties; Kick-Ass.  Having developed the violent-universe and its larger-than-life characters over the course of 8 years (it started life in 2006 as a completely different project) 23 issues, 2 movie adaptations and a separate spin-off volume, Millar […]

Thor: Ragnarok’s Tessa Thompson is “highly interested” playing the new Kick-Ass

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Next week sees the launch of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.’s new Kick-Ass comic book, which revamps the series and features the introduction of a new female lead, Patience Lee, a mother and military veteran who takes on the mantle of Kick-Ass, inspired by the heroics of high schooler Dave Lizewski. Last month, Millar […]

Mark Millar wants Tessa Thompson to play the new Kick-Ass

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Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. return to the world of Kick-Ass next month with the launch of a brand new comic book series, albeit with a new hero under the mask as high schooler Dave Lizewski makes way for Patience Lee, a black female military veteran and mother. Although we’re still a few weeks away […]