Pat Mills
Comics writer at Freelance
Author and writer at Iconoblast
Writing the successor to Charley's War: Ragtime Soldier - Trench Raider https://t.co/SovFy72Egr @patmillswriter.bsky.social
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6 days ago |
iconoblast.substack.com | Pat Mills
Today, there seem to be more theocracies than ever. My family came from Ireland, which was a recognised cruel, evil and oppressive theocracy until fairly recent times. Among its numerous crimes were the treatment of young women in the Magdalen laundries and the restrictions on family planning. It even goes back to the time of the Great Hunger, where the ruling English Raj used and funded a Quisling Church, willing to carry out its commands.
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6 days ago |
iconoblast.substack.com | Pat Mills
In this volume, we see the aftermath of Hiroshima. The three American ‘tourists’ being pulled in rickshaws are authentic and the image is based on a photo reference. But any consideration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki makes us think about the origins of evil. Whether there is a place such as Resurrection, where the perpetrators will be punished, which is what so many of us would like to see happen.
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1 week ago |
iconoblast.substack.com | Pat Mills
I've just watched Small Things Like These, starring Cillian Murphy. It’s set in the 1980s and exposes yet more crimes of the nuns in the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland. Crimes which, as far as I’m aware, no nun has served a prison sentence for. It’s valuable because it shows that Matriarchies can be just as evil as Patriarchies. Even if the nuns are a product of a patriarchal religion, they are certainly autonomous and powerful in the film.
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2 weeks ago |
iconoblast.substack.com | Pat Mills
I’ve often wondered what Olivier’s sources of inspiration for Requiem are. There’s the central character of Requiem himself, who may be visually inspired by Moorcock’s Elric. A couple of years back, Glenat, our publisher, asked Moorcock if he would write an intro to the Requiem series but, unfortunately, he was too busy. Then there’s the aerial city of Pirates on magnificent display in this volume – I have no idea where that might have come from.
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2 weeks ago |
iconoblast.substack.com | Pat Mills
Apologies again for writing yet another post that isn’t Matriarchy versus Patriarchy. It will return!The definition of comic books comes up from time to time, so I thought I’d share my recollections of how comic books became ‘graphic novels’. I have reservations on that description of them. I believe Mick McMahon called them fat comics, or possibly fat comics with bits of cardboard around them, which still makes me chuckle.
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@PatMillsComics I'm happy to see you have Alans genius without the curmudgeonliness (if that's a word).
Oh, yeah. I was paid to write the screenplay etc. She had Rob Botin lined up to direct. Memorably, she said to us, 'Hey - wouldn't it be a great idea if Tina Turner played (Irish Catholic) Mrs Mallon.' Kevin's reply was equally memorable and not in a good way
@PatMillsComics She optioned that!?! No way! I brought it up to her, and she flat lied to my face she had no interest in it! Glad you made some coin from it. (It's not a million miles away from what The Boys is doing now. Netflix should be doing it as a show.)
I feared as much. IIRC in 1987 they probably weren't paying even below industry standard royalties to creators
@PatMillsComics 1987... https://t.co/DBb4zfMZZr
