'People have described the 2000s comic in a variety of ways. I quite like “The Prismatic Age,” the idea that it was the age of analogues, the widescreen era, but for me, it was the Paramilitary Age. All the superheroes were basically in the army. The Avengers were a government organization, and when I was writing the X-Men, I was running it like a very methodical army. Uber is a part of that, that pushed it to this ridiculous extreme, this purely materialistic take on the superhero.' --
Kieron GillenBeneath the cut, some pages from last month's issue of UBER...
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