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Agree highly with Yawn – Mills is a very important character in terms of UK comics in the past few decades (Martin Barker’s ‘Action: The History of a Violent Comic’ – if you can find it – talks about some of his work pre-2000AD), and it’s remarkable the number of characters he’s created or developed. Occasionally I feel that he backs the wrong horse in terms of the market – Toxic and Dice Man for example – but you have to respect someone who’s so full of ideas he can afford to sling them every which way.
I’m not quite certain why, aside from stuff like Metalzoic and Marshal Law, his work’s never really been much-lauded in the USA, respected though he is in the UK.
On a personal level, I must admit that the seemingly endless books of Nemesis and Slaine and ABC Warriors have led me to be less interested in his work in recent years (too much emphasis on earth magic etc, and they all too often appear to have been written with an eye to being collected in the future – which you can hope for in the US market, but it’s far less certain in the UK), but I’m nonetheless aware that he’s very important in terms of his effect on the UK comics scene, and a talented and thoughtful writer. And on the occasions I’ve met him, a very friendly chap, to boot.
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