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NEMESIS #1 (OF 4)

CIVIL WAR? Nothing. KICK-ASS? A warmup. What if the smartest, toughest costumed bad ass in the world was totally evil? Meet Nemesis. He’s systematically been destroying the lives of every police chief in Asia, and he’s now set his sights on Washington, DC. Between you and me, the police don’t have a chance. Do not miss the book that EVERYONE will be talking about by the creative team that made CIVIL WAR the biggest book of the decade.

WRITER: Mark Millar
PENCILS: Steve McNiven
COVER BY: Steve Mcniven

Price: $2.99
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  1. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    March 22, 2010 at 2:23 pm

    "Makes Kick-Ass look like sh*t" – Is that a jab at JRJR?

  2. Avatar photo petevaldez says:
    March 22, 2010 at 2:24 pm

    this book makes my taint quiver.

  3. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    March 22, 2010 at 2:27 pm

    Not sure if it’s a good idea to promote your earlier work as shit. Especially considering you have a major film coming out soon of that previous work.

    But it’s Millar so what am I else to expect?

  4. Avatar photo s1lentslayer says:
    March 22, 2010 at 2:32 pm

    How long between issues on this I wonder?

  5. Avatar photo comicBOOKchris says:
    March 22, 2010 at 2:34 pm

    He’s not insulting his earlier work, it’s just a cheeky way of saying how this will be crazier than Kick-Ass.

  6. Avatar photo Conor Kilpatrick (@cskilpatrick) says:
    March 22, 2010 at 2:34 pm

    I love it when people get bent out of shape/don’t understand/take seriously Millar’s marketing hyperbole.

  7. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    March 22, 2010 at 2:37 pm

    I know this is Millar and he’s just joking around.

    I just think it’s a bit much.

  8. Avatar photo drakedangerz says:
    March 22, 2010 at 2:45 pm

    @TNC-It’s never too much with Millar. Seriously feels like people have to constantly be reminded about how over the top Millar can be. That’s how he promotes his stuff. He’s been doing it for years.

    I’m excited to read this, but would much rather have the trade than the singles. So I’m going to wait for that to hit. 

  9. Avatar photo comicBOOKchris says:
    March 22, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    @NextChamp:

    "A bit much" is what Millar is all about, you know that.

    Plus, it’s a bit odd with what everything Millar writes, this is the thing you think he takes too far.

  10. Avatar photo comicBOOKchris says:
    March 22, 2010 at 2:51 pm

    I love a good villain book, and from hearing Millar talk about it and seeing the preview images, this might rank as one of the coolest concepts out there. McNiven i great at drawing haunting images that coincide w/ Millar’s crazy ideas, so I don’t see how we can lose with this mini-series.

  11. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    March 22, 2010 at 2:56 pm

    @comicbookchris/drake: I don’t know why I think this is too much considering what he’s done in the past. Hell the unlettered previews show much worse then this tagline.

    I just find it a tad funny as well that this is what Marvel/Millar choose to put on the cover when they have to promote the film they’re referring to the comic as a peice of shit.

  12. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    March 22, 2010 at 2:58 pm

    I get it, it’s cheeky, it’s a joke. Not really funny. Looking foreward to the book though! 🙂

  13. Avatar photo GanderSlayer says:
    March 22, 2010 at 2:59 pm

    Looks like fun but will take FOREVER to come out.

  14. Avatar photo KickAss says:
    March 22, 2010 at 3:03 pm

    The best comic of this year arrives.  That’s my honest prediction on this comic.  We’ll see how it turns out.

  15. Avatar photo MrPopular says:
    March 22, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    Maybe i’m a lone one out.  But i don’t  find Millars cockyish indulgent attitude a problem, sometimes funny… for me he always seems to deliver. (except when it takes 2yrs for 8 issues)  but i can’t wait.  

     

  16. Avatar photo KickAss says:
    March 22, 2010 at 3:23 pm

    You’d think you people never listened to "The Hives."  They rock, and are cocky in their interviews too.  I agree with Mr. Popular.

  17. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    March 22, 2010 at 4:04 pm

    @kickass  y’know they could hate the Hives too

     i for one think this is hilarious

  18. Avatar photo corpseed says:
    March 22, 2010 at 4:06 pm

    Stoked for this.

  19. Avatar photo OttoBott says:
    March 22, 2010 at 4:06 pm

    Millar’s cockiness isn’t "a little much" as he’s had multiple movies deals, sells properties to Hollywood before they’re even published and is considered/paid as a superstar comics scribe to boot.

    I think I’m going to start making audacious claims about everything I do, just to see if it works.

  20. Avatar photo Patman2 says:
    March 22, 2010 at 4:26 pm

    Like all of Millars work I will be waiting for trade.

  21. Avatar photo DorianP says:
    March 22, 2010 at 4:35 pm

    Looks interesting but I’ll trade wait.  I learned my lesson with Kick-Ass and Old Man Logan.

  22. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    March 22, 2010 at 4:47 pm

    How many issues is this thing gonna be? Anyone know?

  23. Avatar photo Reform says:
    March 22, 2010 at 5:13 pm

    @ Roi  4

  24. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    March 22, 2010 at 5:31 pm

    @reform As soon as i posted that i looked at the top of the page NEMESIS#1(of 4)

    slaps forehead*

  25. Avatar photo jackietam says:
    March 22, 2010 at 5:39 pm

    4 issues, eh? Hopefully we’ll get the next four without a minimum of four months wait.

  26. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    March 22, 2010 at 5:45 pm

    @MrPopular – it’s not a problem at all. Hunger, war, and unhappyness … it’s not a problem at all. It’s just a prefrence. Millar is very original in his writing and his marketing works. But anyone can have prefrences. By the way I am HUGE Millar fan.

     

    @KickAss – Hives are amazing. Saw them live and they are even better than the CD. 

  27. edward says:
    March 22, 2010 at 5:49 pm

    @Roi: 4 issues, it goes for 4 issues. It says 1 of 4 at the top of the thread. See, at the top? Yup, it’s a 4 issue run.

    @TNC:i’m surprised you would be picking this up considering how strongly you disliked Old Man Logan. Remember? You said McNiven wasn’t a good artist?  Very strange.

     

     

    anyway, what a we talking about? Nemesis? alright then. It looks interesting. I’m very excited. Should be good. 

     

  28. Avatar photo deadspace says:
    March 22, 2010 at 6:30 pm

    @TNC – he’s not exactly saying that Kick Ass is a piece of shit. he’s says Kick Ass is like shit *in comparison* to this. there’s a difference. 

    I’m afraid i’ve been won over by Millar’s marketing once again. *pulls* 

  29. Avatar photo jackietam says:
    March 22, 2010 at 7:15 pm

    Just admit it, people: 2.99 cover price is breath of fresh air compared to the other stuff Marvel has be shelling out.

  30. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    March 22, 2010 at 7:19 pm

    @edward: I’m not picking this up. Just commenting on the tagline.

    @deadspace: That makes more sense. But to be honest you could make it either way. I wouldn’t be surprised if Millar thought Kick-Ass was a piece of shit. 

  31. edward says:
    March 22, 2010 at 7:37 pm

    @TNC: hmmm…  ok than.

  32. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    March 22, 2010 at 7:44 pm

    @TNC Why bother posting four comments for a book you’re not even getting?

  33. edward says:
    March 22, 2010 at 8:01 pm

    Because that tagline is like an awesome mind puzzle that needs to analyzed and dissected. I mean. it’s not like it’s an immedicately obvious joke or anything. It’s important, Damn it!

  34. Avatar photo Tiocore says:
    March 22, 2010 at 8:05 pm

    I’m thinking trade on this one but I don’t want to miss out on the excitement and discussion of each issue month to month. Conuuuuuuundruuuuuuum!

  35. Avatar photo Tiocore says:
    March 22, 2010 at 8:18 pm

    Fuck it. Steve McNiven.

  36. Avatar photo Conor Kilpatrick (@cskilpatrick) says:
    March 22, 2010 at 8:22 pm

    @TNC: Believe me, Millar does not think KICK-ASS is a piece of shit. He loves it. He said that in many ways it is his most personal work.

  37. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    March 22, 2010 at 8:36 pm

    Variant Cover:

    Yu Variant

     

     

  38. Avatar photo glwarm76 says:
    March 22, 2010 at 8:38 pm

    Waiting for the trade. I picked up Kick-ass in singles: wait was too long and HC is real nice. 

  39. edward says:
    March 22, 2010 at 8:43 pm

    Good one, Amircat. That variant is awesome. I love a little bit of the old ultra violance

  40. Avatar photo USPUNX says:
    March 22, 2010 at 8:58 pm

    so this will be fun to ready over the next two and a half years.

  41. Avatar photo MattB says:
    March 22, 2010 at 9:07 pm

    To buy Nemesis or not to buy Nemesis that is the question on the one hand its Millar/Mcniven and except for a few blips i like them both on the other…..theres just almost no shot this comes out in any kind of reasonable time

  42. Avatar photo ScorpionMasada says:
    March 22, 2010 at 9:56 pm

    Is this mature as in like a MAX title or Kickass mature?

    KickAss, if this delivers on the solicit, you will have to change your username.

  43. Avatar photo robbydzwonar says:
    March 22, 2010 at 10:06 pm

    I will hear a bunch of shit if I don’t buy this so I’m gonna go with it, I guess?

  44. Avatar photo Peterparker18102 says:
    March 22, 2010 at 10:43 pm

    @ottobot hmmm you may be on to something…

    My posts makes all you other posts look like shit!

    Now I goota go brush my teeth more thoroughly than you bitches!

    And sleep more soundly than any of you ever could!

  45. edward says:
    March 22, 2010 at 10:47 pm

    @robbydzwonar: i will make your life HELL if you don’t buy this issue

  46. Avatar photo OttoBott says:
    March 22, 2010 at 11:25 pm

    My sound sleep makes @Peterparker18102’s sound sleep look like s#!t!!!

  47. Avatar photo jwaesch says:
    March 22, 2010 at 11:28 pm

    I’m glad this is just a 4 issue mini.  I dropped Kick ass after about 5 issues and don’t regret it, even with the movie coming out (dont plan on seeing that right away either), but I do like Mark Millar so I’m expecting this will be pleasing.

    By the way:  Does anyone know whats up with War Heroes?

  48. Avatar photo captbastrd says:
    March 22, 2010 at 11:40 pm

    Oh motherf… Am I really gonna check this out? URRRRGH, fine!!

  49. Avatar photo OnASunday says:
    March 22, 2010 at 11:40 pm

    It’ll be on time. It’s just like Siege.

  50. Avatar photo HumphreyLee says:
    March 23, 2010 at 12:13 am

    Oh man, Mark Millar is overhyping another vanity project as badass and the greatest thing ever?! Call me apathetic! Also call me when he does something of substance again. It’s been, what, eight years since Ultimates Vol. 1?

  51. Avatar photo vadamowens says:
    March 23, 2010 at 7:14 am

    @scorpion I’m assuming so due to the Icon emblem.  That usually denotes ‘mature audience’, but I could be wrong.

  52. Avatar photo Diabhol says:
    March 23, 2010 at 8:58 am

    *yawn*

    Don’t care.

     

  53. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    March 23, 2010 at 12:32 pm

    @ScorpionMasada – Are you asking if there will be nudity in this one? :p

  54. Avatar photo mikeandzod21 says:
    March 23, 2010 at 1:26 pm

    This could be fun. Mark Millar is like the Michael Bay of comics. You know what your getting from his books and that’s ok, sometimes that’s what you want.

  55. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    March 23, 2010 at 1:33 pm

    @mikeandzod21 – I think he is way better than a "Michael Bay" of comics. He has some very original concepts and "Superman Red Son" was awesome. I guess he sells like Bay.

  56. Avatar photo KickAss says:
    March 23, 2010 at 4:03 pm

    This will not be late as my comic "Kick-Ass." In Kick-Ass, JRJR had to draw 16 ASM issues and various other Marvel projects simultaneously, plus an animated bit for my "Kick-Ass" movie. Here it’s not the same. McNiven has no other Marvel work. @jwaesch-If you dropped Kick-Ass on issue #5, then you missed the best parts!

  57. Avatar photo SunnyvaleTrash says:
    March 23, 2010 at 4:16 pm

    I ended up really liking Kick-Ass, despite my initial hesitation.  Still gonna trade wait on this, based upon the creators’ history.

  58. Avatar photo OttoBott says:
    March 23, 2010 at 4:57 pm

    @KickAss – The only problem is JRjr can draw 60 pages in five weeks (Amazing Spiderman #600). McNiven draws at…not even close to that rate.

  59. edward says:
    March 23, 2010 at 6:07 pm

    oh, yeah. this is going to be insanely late. Enjoy the ride, folks, enjoy the ride

  60. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    March 23, 2010 at 6:43 pm

    I will give Millar/McNiven credit. It does look like they were able to get the first three issues done quickly. Cause all three come out when they should.

    Worryingly Marvel just put out their solicts for June and no indication that the final issue (#4) will be out…..Not a good sign. 

  61. edward says:
    March 23, 2010 at 7:25 pm

    @TNC: dude, you know you’re insane right? I’m not trying to be rude so sorry if it comes off that way.

    Why are you looking up the details of a comic which you’r enot going to read? i don’t get it

  62. Avatar photo NawidA says:
    March 23, 2010 at 10:02 pm

    Fun Fact: 

    This book is already late. It was solicited for the first week of the month. 

  63. Avatar photo mikeandzod21 says:
    March 24, 2010 at 1:12 am

    @amircat what I meant was that, much like Michael Bay, you know what your going to get with a Mark Millar comic.

  64. Avatar photo KickAss says:
    March 24, 2010 at 1:49 am

    @Ottobot-Yes JRJR draws faster, but like I said, McNiven is only drawing this book, not 16 others.  Old Man Logan came out faster than my comic Kick-Ass.

    All I care about is quality.  McNiven is the best artist working today.  No need to rush.

  65. Avatar photo vadamowens says:
    March 24, 2010 at 8:50 am

    hmmm. I love absolute statements like that.

  66. Avatar photo RoiVampire says:
    March 24, 2010 at 12:50 pm

    I just noticed this is a mini thats $2.99 so thats awesome

  67. Avatar photo KickAss says:
    March 24, 2010 at 3:53 pm

    HOLY CRAP THIS WAS AWESOME!!!! WOW.

  68. Avatar photo zachtruitt says:
    March 24, 2010 at 6:40 pm

    maaaaaan   I really didn’t dig this issue.  The new McNiven style really disappointed me.  I never thought I would prefer the super slick style from Civil War but I just can’t get over the change.   I was expecting a lot more from Millar too.  Not a great start to the series

  69. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    March 24, 2010 at 8:21 pm

    Is he billed as "If Batman was the Joker" or "If Batman was a villain"? Cause I thought Prometheus was already Batman as a villain.

  70. Avatar photo NawidA says:
    March 24, 2010 at 8:53 pm

    I thought it was a badass start to the series. I mean he captures the fucking president!

  71. Avatar photo comicBOOKchris says:
    March 24, 2010 at 8:56 pm

    Really fun stuff, I had a great time reading this. This is probably the first time I didn’t see Dexter Vines team up with Steve McNiven, and it really shows, since the finished pages have a rougher look to them than what we’re used to. It’s a different look, but it still works. This will be a fun mini to follow.

  72. Avatar photo NawidA says:
    March 24, 2010 at 9:12 pm

    Yeah, I didn’t think the art was as special as usual. 

  73. Avatar photo comicBOOKchris says:
    March 24, 2010 at 9:16 pm

    I would like to nominate Nemesis as the most evil fuck in the universe.

  74. Avatar photo Peterparker18102 says:
    March 24, 2010 at 9:53 pm

    this was really good would have been a 5 star and POTW but it just felt a little too much like a build up, or a start to a story (why I am never nuts about #1’s).  I am sure looking back on the whole story (if it continues in this vein) it will hold up well because it set up some brilliant stuff!

  75. Avatar photo GLNancy says:
    March 24, 2010 at 11:48 pm

    why is this guy so damn badass? No one can land the jump he lands in this issue does that bother anyone else but me?

  76. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    March 24, 2010 at 11:58 pm

    So, I wasn’t going to get this. I didn’t much care for KICK-ASS, but my retailer slipped this in my big, so I figured… what the heck? This was pretty good. Not outstanding. But really fun. I actually think it’s a good premise. There’s a certain filmic quality to it, too. It will definitely translate well to the screen. (Though to be honest, Michael Crichton started to go down hill when his books were getting film options before they were even written.)

  77. Avatar photo DarkKnightJared says:
    March 25, 2010 at 12:17 am

    Boring. It was the standard Millar ultra-violence without anything to care about. Unless he does something different in this–maybe for once his pet character will actually lose–I think it’d be safe to say that Millar’s lost his touch.

    The art was really good, though. 

  78. Avatar photo DarthDuck says:
    March 25, 2010 at 1:19 am

    Fun!  Fun, fun, fun!  Only Mark Millar could get away with this, even though many of you will say he deosn’t or shouldn’t.  It was simple yet effective and I enjoyed every bit of it.  In one issue Nemesis became the character I most love to hate.  Already.  Awesome.

  79. Avatar photo B says:
    March 25, 2010 at 2:12 am

    Huh, I got this only for McNiven’s art and I’m very disappointed. If his name wasn’t on the book I wouldn’t have ever guessed it was him. The reviews are really praising the art but it’s not working for me. All the faces look way weird, kind of sloppy and distorted… and too much crosshatching which might work with a different coloring style but not here. Sad.

  80. Avatar photo stustap says:
    March 25, 2010 at 1:01 pm

    My LCS was in the shout outs in this – ACE Comics (Colchester)

     

    Nice.

  81. Avatar photo jwaesch says:
    March 25, 2010 at 5:20 pm

    This literally felt like the first 15-20 minutes of a big, mindless Hollywood action movie.  Not necessarily a bad thing though.  And at this point I guess it was to be expected.

  82. Avatar photo wayne2001bc says:
    March 25, 2010 at 9:07 pm

    I liked the design of the villain in this story; just a simple white costume.  And his sneering face was great; made him look like a real jerk.  I’m on board for this one.

  83. Avatar photo Urthona says:
    March 25, 2010 at 9:45 pm

    AWESOME!!

  84. Avatar photo Mangaman says:
    March 25, 2010 at 11:49 pm

    @petevaldez: thank you, because we all wanted to know about that.
    @OttoBott: your hyperbole should be the cream to your coffee, no one orders only a cup of whipcream in a coffee shop.
    @DarkKnightJared: That would be so kickass.
    @OttoBott: my sound sleep makes- oh forget it.

    Bah! Didn’t think it’d happen but I’m actually rooting for Nemesis.

  85. Avatar photo Onic says:
    March 26, 2010 at 5:21 pm

    Sold out. Guess that’s what my late ass gets for going on a Friday =|

  86. Avatar photo ButchCassidy says:
    March 26, 2010 at 6:34 pm

    @comicBOOKchris… I totally agree. When I saw the art I was like WTF? I flipped to to credits page and realized that Dexter Vines wasn’t inking this time. Huge mistake. Apparently he’s the one that makes McNiven look so good, cause without him, this just looked pretty mediocre.

  87. Avatar photo NathanNicdao says:
    March 26, 2010 at 7:51 pm

    Sold out on my LCS too. I had the last copy.

    My LCS was in the shoutouts:

    Comic Odyssey Robinson’s Galleria in Quezon City, Philippines!

  88. Avatar photo NathanNicdao says:
    March 26, 2010 at 7:53 pm

    is it just me or does Nemesis look like the love child of Moon Knight and SIlver Surfer?

  89. Avatar photo captbastrd says:
    March 29, 2010 at 2:01 pm

    Several people explode into bloody messes while making stupid faces and a kid says, "Holy fucking shit!" with a smile on his face. If that’s not indicitive of a Mark Millar book, I don’t know what is. To use Millar’s style of dialogue, "Fuck this fucking piece of cockshit *pointlessly violent scene*"

    I close with a webcomic that I find to be quite accurate in its attack on Millar: http://www.letsbefriendsagain.com/2010/02/02/burning-them-two-at-a-time/

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