Gotta love communication.
Mark Millar talking about future uses of his “Old Man Logan” universe, Comic Book Resources February 7th 2009:
I always like to leave something behind, whether it was the Marvel Zombies in ‘Ultimate Fantastic Four’ or in ‘Fantastic Four’ itself where we had those Defenders characters that are catching on it. It’s just great fun, and I love doing that. In ‘Civil War’ I came up with loads of stuff other people picked up on. But the most proprietorial I’ve ever felt with anything is the ‘Old Man Logan’ universe. I don’t know why, but they got about three or four proposals in a couple of months ago from people, and they said, ‘What do you think? Is it OK if we farm this stuff out?’ and I just had to say ‘No.’ I’m never normally that much of a jerk, but I just love that little world and don’t want anyone else playing with it. Right now it still feels like my toy. So I said, ‘Look, I’d like to come back at some point with Steve and do more with the ‘Old Man Logan’ world,’ and that was what I used as a bargaining chip so they wouldn’t let anyone else do it.
One thing I have noticed sometimes is that whenever something is successful – and this is at DC and at Marvel – then there’s always a cheap, shoddy follow up by the wrong creative team usually. And then there’s an even worse creative team to come and follow them. And then the thing just dies on its arse. I’d hate to see that happen to ‘Old Man Logan’ so I thought, ‘If anybody’s going to f–k this up, it’s me.’
Joe Quesada talking about future uses of Mark Millar’s “Old Man Logan” universe, Comic Book Resources February 7th 2009:
Are there any plans to use the world of “Old Man Logan” in other books? Quesada said Miller wants to “whore the hell out of it,” but we don’t yet know exactly when.
In Joe Quesada’s defense, maybe he doesn’t know the meaning of the word “whore.”
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Welcome slightly back then, Fanboy Rampage. And thanks to Rich for demanding this of you.
Yes, but how does the Bendis board feel about it? It’s just not FBR w/o some choice quotes from those guys.
I’ve missed FBR so, so much.
Ahhhhhhh. That’s the stuff.
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I’d say that someone got their wires crossed in that one…