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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark_Aurel" data-source="post: 1606287" data-attributes="member: 1725">Okay, I normally lurk, but I felt I had to respond to this last part, since it seems pretty inaccurate, at least in parts. Mark Millar is, as far as I can tell, a very, very big Superman fan. He loves Superman. He wrote Red Son, which is one of the best Superman stories to appear in recent years. It's close to a perfect rendition of Superman. Mark Millar has also been writing Superman Adventures, the comic version of the Superman Animated Series - and he's done a good job at it.A few years ago, there was talk about doing a big Superman revamp. Four writers got together with a proposal for DC for the elements that needed to change in order to make the Superman titles better. The four writers were Mark Millar, Mark Waid, Grant Morrison, and Tom Peyer. All those writers have a great deal of love for Superman. Mark Waid co-wrote Kingdom Come, and is the current writer of Superman: Birthright. Grant Morrison showed his appreciation for the character in the pages of JLA. And Mark Millar did Red Son. For a while, there was some speculation that Mark Millar would be doing the script for the Superman movie, based on the strength of Red Son.Finally, Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch have a stated goal of getting a Superman run a few years down the line - both are very eager for it, because they love Superman.Any report that Mark Millar hates Superman or thinks Superman is a villain would more than likely either be a misunderstanding or a crock.As for 'Anti-Americanism,' he's Scottish, and his father was engaged in left-wing politics. I've never seen Millar express any specific hatred or malice towards the USA, however. Different perspective or worldview than an American? You bet. Portraying Americans or American superheroes as being not any more perfect than the rest of us? Sure. Not reading a book because the author comes from a different political background than yourself sounds a bit narrowminded, to be honest.As for living in Scotland, he does. And that line about black people sounds like some throwaway joke more than anything else. I can imagine that Millar might have a more ... coarse sense of humor than you or I do. Most Scottish people I've met do. And I really, really like the Ultimate books.</blockquote>

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