Cramming comics
Have you gotten your priority pass for the Mark Millar signing on Saturday afternoon? It comes with purchase of selected Mark Millar titles at National Bookstores. One pass entitles you to have one book signed. No, you can’t bring your friends’ libraries. The signing is on 27 May 2012, 1400 at the Glorietta 5 Atrium; registration starts at 1100.
In preparation for the signing we’re taking a review course in Millar’s oeuvre. Our geek guide to graphic novels Budjette has recommended three titles in particular: The Ultimates, Kick-Ass, and The Authority.
We’ve read Kick-Ass (and Wanted) so we’re cramming The Ultimates # 1-13, the Marvel universe’s reboot of The Avengers. Its influence on The Avengers movie is clear (There’s even an introduction by Joss Whedon), from the tone to the villains to the casting decisions (Samuel Jackson is already Nick Fury, and this series started in 2002). The characters even discuss which actors should play them in the film version: Brad Pitt as Captain America (He does not know who Brad Pitt is, naturally), Johnny Depp as Iron Man, Matthew McConaughey as Hank Pym who had many superhero incarnations, Lucy Liu as the Wasp. Bruce Banner walks in just as they’re discussing his Hollywood avatar: it’s a toss-up between Woody Allen and Steve Buscemi. This causes problems.
We’re relieved the film adaptation did not include the other Avengers we remember from the old comics: Ant-Man, the Wasp, Vision, the Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver…
Yellowjacket of the Golden Age Avengers. Ooh, scary. Don’t forget your antihistamines.
Mark Millar is interviewed about The Avengers here.
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