Flash 80-Page Giant #1

[broblawsky]

Just so people remember that Mark Millar can actually write well.




A writer calls his subject from a bar in Coatbridge, Scotland...





Mark is having trouble coming up with a fresh story for this issue of The Flash; when Wally suggests that he just make something up, he gets a bit huffy.





Flash suggests that Mark write about his aerial duel with the Weather Wizard, the chilly challenge of Captain Cold, or the various schemes of Grodd, Heat Wave, or Abra Kadabra. Unfortunately, Mark is unimpressed. Even a story about the sleep patterns of speedsters fails to inspire.





Mark likes the idea, and as Flash races off to save Keystone City's colors from the Rainbow Raider, he begins to type out his new script, saying:

"Nice one, Flash. A wee gimmick at the end is exactly what the story needed."



3 1/3 pages of 10 from Flash 80-Page Giant #1.

Comments

[thanekos]

John Grisham and Danielle Steel(e) doing comics.

Clever.

[randyripoff]

This is cute.

I actually think Millar is a solid writer. Maybe he's not good at anything subtle, but he knows how to deliver a decent story. The problem is that as he's become more and more famous--and more and more marketable--it's harder for an editor or someone else to convince him to reign in his excesses.

[goattoucher]

This is the issue with a lot of creators: without editorial to reel them in, they indulge themselves to a point where they eventually start undermining themselves.

The example I always use for this is Family Guy. The first few seasons were quite funny. Then they gave MacFarlane a $100 million contract and essentially let him do whatever he wanted.

So he did, and now the show is all but unwatchable.

Look at the early days of Image Comics. How were all those Liefeld titles? Oy.

A good editor is key, it seems to me. Not too much of a company man who will nix any idea that strays from the formula, but a guy who's willing to stand up to the odd genius and tell him to dial it back a notch.

[super_fly]

"Identity Crisis", huh?

Mod Note!

[icon_uk]

Okay, there are two major issues with this post which must be addressed immediately.

This is indeed 10 pages from an 80 page special, but it's 10 pages from a 10 page story within that issue.

Scans_Daily rules state that you may post no more than 1/3 of any story, not of any issue. So the most you could post from a 10 page story is 3 1/3 pages.

The second matter is that the pages here have been taken from a pirate comic book site and the web address for it has not even been removed from some pages.

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Re: Mod Note!

[broblawsky]

My apologies. I will fix this later tonight.

Re: Mod Note!

[broblawsky]

I believe that should be correct now.