As revealed in an interview with Newsarama, Mark Millar has stated that the upcoming Death of Spider-Man story in Marvel’s Ultimate line will be his last endeavor in the Marvel Universe. Not that there is any friction between him and Marvel – far from it. Millar simply feels that now is the time in his life to focus solely on creator owned endeavors, and given the amount of success that he’s been having with his creator owned books, you can’t really blame him.
Millar’s been with Marvel since 1996, launching his creator owned line Millarworld in 2004. The Ultimates in 2000 were Millar’s first mainstay at Marvel, which led to further runs in Fantastic Four and Marvel Knights Spider-Man, as well as 1985 and Old Man Logan. Now, with the success of a film like Kick-Ass and other properties of his optioned for films, now is pretty much the best time to be Mark Millar. Nemesis and Superior are selling like hot cakes, Kick-Ass 2 is coming out, and the man claims that there will be future announcements at the Comic Con that he started for England – Kapow! – stating that the artist on this new book will be none other than Dave Gibbons (although we’ve heard rumors of this for some time now). So while Millar and Bendis once again team-up for Ultimate storytelling, it looks like this is your last chance to see Millar do anything with the Marvel heroes.
We wish Mark all the best with his creator owned endeavors, but really we don’t need to because his books frequently sell out and he’s doing quite well! Although – and this is just a guess here – but I still don’t think we’ll see the final issues of War Heroes coming out any time soon.
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