Mark Millar's Huck (An Antidote to Antiheroes)

Mark Millar discusses the inspiration behind what led to him creating the superhero "Huck".

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/millar-reveals-he-created-huck-in-response-to-man-of-steel-trauma

This man was hyping the 2015 Fantastic Four movie. He still has no moral high ground to criticize other comic book movies for being too dark/unfaithful to the source.

I think he's criticizing himself as much as everyone else.

Like he kinda realized Oh shit! This is too much! and then was like ''Oh Shit! I helped do this!" So now he's got to fix it.

At least, that's what I want to think.

he's reportedly been writing MUCH more light-hearted stories like chrononauts now, but i haven't read any of his recent work to judge.

I got the impression that what Millar was talking about was effectively him having a mild version of a My God, What Have I Done? reaction, seeing how Superman was controversially portrayed in Man of Steel, realizing that he's helped contribute to the problem, and trying to see if he can't do something to help move the pendulum back in the other direction.

Millar CAN write good, lighthearted superhero stuff. His earliest American work was like that.

Makes me think of why Alan Moore wanted to do Tom Strong. He did seem to feel that he was at least partially responsible for taking some of the fun out of comics.

Still, however good Huck is, it ain't gonna solve the problem cuz no one cares about Huck. We need a lighthearted (or at least, not immensely dark) Superman.

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Too bad he seems to dropped (with an indescribable amount of force) any intention he may have once had of becoming more lighthearted.

Well, we can at least count on it probably getting a big hyped film adaptation.

Question is whether he means superhero comics altogether should become more lighthearted, or that merely superheroes should act like wide-eyed purity Sues even as their respective universes keep going from bad to worse, chock full of apathetic citizens and complete monsters. The martyrdom culture modern superheroes exhibit is already only as tolerable as snikting someone's liver or snapping their neck can provide a sense of catharsis. At least Man of Steel took a definite stance on what to do with an unrepentant mass murderer, unwholesome for some fans as it was.

I'm all for comics getting more lighthearted, but it's got to be evenly applied. And seeing how BVSDOJ and Suicide Squad are coming up, it may be a while before DC warms up to that notion.

edited 19th Nov '15 5:55:30 AM by indiana404

DC's movies have nothing to do with their comics. And there aren't that many dark superhero films. Suicide Squad being dark is a given, bit we still have yet to see Batman vs Superman. Or the rest of the DCEU movies.

edited 21st Nov '15 5:29:59 AM by windleopard

Why it's almost as if he's a human being who is capable of changing his opinions and of thinking that it's possible for things he likes to go too far!

I think you may have misspelled 'comics' somewhere in there...

Human beings are also fully capable of hypocritical opportunism.

But... yeah, you're probably right, especially going by much of Millar's latest comic book output. Weary and annoyed, I admittedly lashed out in a kneejerk manner without any real thought or consideration, especially towards giving him a chance to prove himself.

So has anyone been reading it thus far? Issue 3 came out today, and while I'm kind of disappointed they ditched the original concept of keeping his powers a secret at the end of Issue 1, I think it's showing promise. I don't think I'm 100% sold on it yet, but I'm willing to stick with it for the time being at least.