Sure, he seemed a bit bombastic and even obnoxious, but that was part of his charm. By 2003, Millar had written one of the best Swamp Thing runs ever (not better than Moore’s, of course, but probably the second-best run on the character), a great-if-little-read run on Aztek (how much he wrote and how much Morrison wrote is under some debate, I guess, but still), a pretty good run on The Flash (again, with Morrison), some terrific Superman stories (although I hadn’t read those at that time), a very good brief run on The Authority, some good if somewhat strange Justice League stories, the early issues of Ultimate X-Men, and he had done one of the best Avengers run ever with The Ultimates. Yes, we’ve reached the title in my back issues (which I have been re-reading in alphabetical order since about 2005 – I’m slow and I have a lot of comics, don’t judge me!) that set me on the road to a total boycott of Mark Millar, who, at the time I began reading this comic, was pretty solidly, if not one of my favorite comics writers, at least someone I could count on to be quite good.
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