The Unfunnies by Mark Millar

[InformationGeek]

From the creator of Kick-Ass and Wanted, he brings you one of the most disgusting and offensive titles ever to be created.  Have issues with Kick-Ass with a little girl murdering a bunch of gangsters?  Well there is nothing like a little bit of The Unfunnies to change that tune!



To be rather simple about it, the Looney Tunes/Hanna-Barbera get dark... very dark... VERY dark... black hole dark.  This isn't a series for the faint of heart and seems to be hated by quite of people.  For those of you who have read it or know about, care to share your feelings?

Here's some links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unfunnies

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheUnfunnies

[Mofo Rising]

Kind of symptomatic of Mark Millar as a whole. Millar occasionally gets a hold of a good story, but for the most part he relies on cynicism and unpleasantness in order to come off as hip and edgy. Well, it's pretty easy to fill something up with every unpleasant thing you can think of. I don't think Millar has ever really had anything to say, so most of his efforts come across as hollow and empty exercises in the banality of evil.

Heck, even when he's got a straight-forward, big budget superhero book to work with, Millar can't help but turn every character into a sociopath. See "The Ultimates."

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for disgusting offensiveness, but Millar leaves me cold. There's nothing there.

As for offensive funny animal comics, it may have been new in the '60s, but since then it's been done, and done, and done, and done, and...

End Mark Millar rant.

[Chainsawmidget]

You want to know what would surprise me from Mark Millar?  A story where nobody was acting like a colossal jerk or psychopath. 

[Doggett]

Seems like a really nice guy, but I'm so-so on his comics.

[InformationGeek]

Seems like a really nice guy, but I'm so-so on his comics.

That's how I feel.  I really enjoy his runs on Ultimate X-Men and Ultimate Fantastic Four (Currently reading Ultimate Galatus), but I'm indifferent towards his other stuff, especially Nemisis.

[BTM]

Interesting, I was reading the TV Tropes page about this comic, and they posted a bit from a Mark Millar interview...

Mark Millar: My wife got about six pages into it when she was reading it in the bath the other night and she just threw it at me. She said it was the most horrible thing she'd ever read in her life and she didn't want to think this sort of s**t even went on in my head. I tried to explain that the crow was sucking cock for a REASON, but it actually does sound kind of creepy saying it out loud.

Ya THINK??

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

I usually cannot read him easily, but then the Ultimates I found some of the best comic reading I have ever seen. 
I like the way it worked out, not really NICE but a fine read.
-Ed
Disclaimer: I'm not really a comics guy, outside of a limited liking of Captain America (as done by Ed Brubaker) and some JLA stuff.   So I can't go into this in any depth.

[InformationGeek]

Interesting, I was reading the TV Tropes page about this comic, and they posted a bit from a Mark Millar interview...

Mark Millar: My wife got about six pages into it when she was reading it in the bath the other night and she just threw it at me. She said it was the most horrible thing she'd ever read in her life and she didn't want to think this sort of s**t even went on in my head. I tried to explain that the crow was sucking cock for a REASON, but it actually does sound kind of creepy saying it out loud.

Ya THINK??

No kidding.  People on other forums bring this quote up a lot when this comic is mentioned and with good reason.

[Jim H]

Millar occasionally gets a hold of a good story, but for the most part he relies on cynicism and unpleasantness in order to come off as hip and edgy. Well, it's pretty easy to fill something up with every unpleasant thing you can think of. I don't think Millar has ever really had anything to say, so most of his efforts come across as hollow and empty exercises in the banality of evil.

I think that's the perfect three sentence summary of Mark Millar.  

I actually think he's a decent writer too, so it's really too bad.