Superior #4

[superboyprime]

I recently read an old interview with Paul Cornell where he said Mark Millar is responsible for his current comic book career. Millar called him up after watching an episode of DOCTOR WHO he wrote, "Human Nature," offering to connect him with Marvel editors. Before that, he'd been trying to get into the industry but not really getting anywhere.

So if Millar weren't a big name, none of Cornell's work for Marvel and DC would exist. That's funny.









Amidst dealing with various disasters and crimes, "Superior" handles a bully who beat up his best friend.

Comments

[espanolbot]

You WILL embrace the might of the All-Powerful Space Banana! Mwhahahaha!

[stubbleupdate]

The cropping in the bully section makes this difficult to understand

[darkblade]

That evil space monkey gets me laughing out loud every time.

[espanolbot]

He's escaped from one of Karl Pilkington's monkey-related stories or something.

[philippos42]

Why is Eddie Murphy white?

[nezchan]

And by banana we mean Galactus' manhood.

[nezchan]

Alternate universe?

[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

Looks like Superior whipped the kid off to Siberia or something at superhuman speed, then came back and left him on a lamppost.

[kaitou]

At first I thought the cover said "The best boobs on the stands!"

[auggie18]

The thing is, I kinda love this book. A lot. Which is why as we near the ending, I get more and more scared. When will the rape and despair start? And with who?

[misterbug]

"I am the devil, and I come to do the devil's blurk?!? STUPID MONKEY!"

[angelophile]

Correction: It was Fathers Day that Millar saw, not Human Nature, which wasn't actually broadcast until several months after Cornell's first work for Marvel hit the stands.

[fifthie]

Probably right after the monkey turns that kid into a satan-powered psychopath.

[darkknightjrk]

That's how I read it, too.

[darkknightjrk]

Colorist fuck-up?

[darkknightjrk]

To which I would reply with, "...Nah. Did you see this month's Power Girl?"

[kamino_neko]

Oh, good, I'm not crazy, then. >_> I knew the timeline there seemed wrong.

[myniamh]

It'd be hilarious if he turned him down. The comic would become Superior flying around doing good and Evil Dead Space Monkey wandering around trying to get someone to take up his offer.
I think one issue of that might make Millar's head implode though.

[fifthie]

If Millar does this, I will buy

1. every issue of this comic

2. the trade paperback of any given utterly shitty Mark Millar comic

[myniamh]

That's a safe bet. :(

[venatosapiens]

Bwahhahahah demonic space monkey. I'm sorry. That's....that's hilarious.
So it looks like he's setting up Superior for a battle royal with a super villain for the lulz. I can get behind that.

[brain_floss]

Ah, so it's not the plot bunny for Mr.Millar, but evil plot monkey, to screw up the regular characters & their daily life? Figures.

[psychopathicus_rex]

There is actually a track record for this sort of thing working out - several 'edgy' writers who otherwise loathe superheroes with a passion have admitted to at least having an appreciation for what Superman stands for, and have written him accordingly. If Millar follows through on this attitude regarding a character who's basically a Superman/Captain Marvel archetype, we may actually be able to get to the end of the story without anything horrible happening.
Interesting that the evil space monkey is playing both sides against the middle. It's not often the same guy who gives both the hero and the villain their powers - although I suppose this could be a commentary on the wizard Shazam and Black Adam.

[tsunamiwombat]

That would be hilarious, yes. If the kid dropped the idiot ball and said "You know what? I'm not going to pick a fight with the superhero whose saving lives. I mean, this is the 22nd century man. I'm not some idiot fucking kid from the 80's who only cares about playing ball and beating my rivals. Have you seen the death figures for Darfur, monkeyman? Have you?

Fuck that noise, i'm going home to blog."

[big_daddy_d]

That was too funny.

[blackruzsa]

..... So basically, Space Monkey makes hero, Space Monkey makes villain, have big fight, lalala.

[myniamh]

That would be edgy and new. Pity.

[shatners_bassoon]

Millar's got a long track record of respect for Superman - many people consider his Superman Adventures comics the best thing he ever wrote, and his Superman:Red Son is my favourite elseworlds fiction that isn't New Frontier.
Garth Ennis has a similar thing - his depiction of Superman in Hitman, for example, is pretty respectful.

[psychopathicus_rex]

Right. So there may yet be hope. (Or, alternately, he's chosen to write a Superman expy so he can do all the horrible things to him that he would NEVER do to Supes. But I prefer going the hope route.)

[stubbleupdate]

I thought that Nemesis was based in the present, not the future.

[filthysize]

THE SPACE MONKEY IS US.

[equinox216]

With massive apologies to Jonathan Coulton, and a little to his scansion:

Space Monkey get up get nanner
Space Monkey go to job
Space Monkey have boring meeting with minor devil, Old Hob
Hob say Space Monkey very diligent
But his intake stink
His souls not diabolical or maleficent
What do Space Monkey think
Space Monkey think maybe manager want to bring goddamn End of Days himself
Space Monkey not say it out loud
Space Monkey not crazy just Proud

Space Monkey find bullies
Space Monkey like jerks and assholes too
Space Monkey strange lil simian
Recruiting Hell’s pivotal part
Space Monkey want you
Space Monkey want you