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Once in every generation something special happens. British comics makes an evolutionary jump. In the fifties it was The Eagle. In the seventies it was 2000AD. Now the most important comic-book event in over thirty years takes place with CLiNT as best-selling writer Mark Millar and industry legend John Romita Jr bring you the sequel to their movie Kick-Ass with Kick-Ass 2: Balls To The Wall. Harnessing the biggest names in British television with the most exciting figures in US comics, Mark Millar is writing and editing a revolutionary new book that covers superheroes, vampires, super-villains and science fiction combined with some of the best journalists from film magazines Empire and SFX.
Get in on the ground floor now and be a part of comic-book history. A collectors item must-have!
Price: $6.99
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| AmirCat | 10/07/10 | No | Read Review |
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I enjoy most Millar comics, but the solicit text above is probably the most delusional nonsense I’ve read this year.
@froggilper: It’s tongue-in-cheek as with all of Millar’s marketing.
What is Clint? The solicit reads like Kick Ass 2, but I have no idea what this is.
HateBear, imagine you are seeing the magazine on a newsstand from a few yards away, and you can’t quite resolve the gap between the L and i.
@HateBearDotGov: CLiNT is a comics magazine.
Anything that touts itself as a "colectiors Item" is condescending rubbish. I’m not going to spend six bucks on this deuchey tripe.
Harper makes me laugh.
@Conor,@skydog,@Frogulper – A musing on Millar’s marketing: At what point does toungue-in-cheek cease to be funny and just becomes annoying, tiresome, and un-original? I get that Millar can be a jokester, but isn’t all of the intentional ‘over-the-top’-ness and toungue-in-cheek banter just ‘preaching to the choir'(at least to those that get the joke) with the negative side-effect of possibly losing potential readers who just might not "get it" but could have possibly enjoyed the comic otherwise?
For what it’s worth, I did enjoy Wanted, Kick-Ass and Marvel 1985; and I am currently reading Nemesis and wish I could be reading more War Heroes; but I have found myself having to make a conscience effort to get past some of the tongue-in-cheek solicits and the ‘over-the-top’ blurbs/quotes on the comics. For me, that kind of self-imposed irony and poking-fun at the comics industry works much better coming from the more underground/comix/indie/outside-of-the-mainstream type of work.
@SkyDog – For 6 bucks. This ‘douchey tripe’ gives you full issues of Kick Ass 2, Turf, American Jesus (Clint 2), Nemesis and more. Not bad in my opinion
This looks kinda fun. I’m down for checking it out. Millar’s sense of humor is great, so I’m totally down for seeing what it’s all about.
Bully for you all! Now that you’ve smarmied, go follow them on twitter.
@jwaesch: It all depends on how serously you take marketing. I, for one, couldn’t care less. At least his marketing is slightly more interesting than most.
hey, that’s some terrible cover design. really bad
I just want kick-ass 2, and if this is the way to get it, so be it, despite the 7 dollar price tag
Wow you guys are only just getting issue #1? Well take it from me, a dude from the UK who already has issue #2, this is without a doubt the worst magazine I have ever read… not just worst comics magazine, just in general terrible.
The features are awful, they have no content or substance – in fact they are filler between the comics. Which i must add are either old – or a waste of space. Rex Royd by Frankie Boyle is the work of someone who doesn’t know who how to write comics, nor tell a story – he’s just Mark Millar’s stand up comedian friend.
Some will say this magazine isn’t aimed at us, but there is no reason kids would read this. It tries to hit the same notes as NUTS or ZOO, but doesn’t have half the amount of features, a written style that’s of any quality and on top of that pointless WASTE of space things like "five weirdest things people have shouted out in bed" or the diary at the back where an unnamed guy talks about how much he loves smoking weed. This isn’t a Kevin Smith movie and you are most certainly not getting Jay and Silent Bob to write your back page column (which would rule) -it’s juvinile and an embaressment to read.
Don’t buy this. IF you want Kick Ass 2 then wait a few weeks for the previews to go online. All it is, is a 6 page preview of Kick Ass 2, something that will go free when the PR machine kicks into full gear in about a month.
If you want to still spend your $6, take it outside – burn it and then take a whopping shit on the ash and throw it at a car. It will give you far more entertainment then this poor excuse for a Millar publishing drive ever will.
@origamikid – I agree man. It’s not very good …
@origamikid – i love your last sentence…you’re on my team. Sometimes we all need to be reminded as our dearly departed friend A. Conan Doyle said, "…the flashier things appear on the outside, the more hollow they tend to be on the inside."