{"id":692875,"date":"2025-09-30T19:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/comic-that-mark-millar-pitched-dc-at-age-13-now-becoming-a-reality\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T19:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:20:16","slug":"comic-that-mark-millar-pitched-dc-at-age-13-now-becoming-a-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/comic-that-mark-millar-pitched-dc-at-age-13-now-becoming-a-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic That Mark Millar Pitched DC at Age 13 Now Becoming a Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhen Mark Millar was 13, he sent in his very first comic book proposal to a publisher. It was for a title called <em>Conquered<\/em>, and featured a drawing of a dragon attacking The White House. The young Scottish kid had a simple pitch: a portal opens, fantasy creatures pour out, and they conquer America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDC Comics editor Julius Schwartz sent Millar a nice rejection letter at the time. But now 43 years later \u2014 after Millar became a big name in comics with titles such as <em>Kick-Ass <\/em>and <em>Kingsman<\/em> \u2014 <em>Conquered <\/em>is becoming a reality. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMillar <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/sidehustlecomics\/conquered-vol-1-of-4\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">launches a Kickstarter today<\/a> for the first of four volumes, made with artist Valerio Giangiordano, known for Millar\u2019s <em>Nemesis: Rogue\u2019s Gallery<\/em> and Todd McFarlane\u2019s <em>Spawn<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>. The artist has quietly been working on the project since the top of 2025, and considers it his biggest undertaking ever, given that he\u2019s showing an entire world at war with fantasy creatures.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Conquered Vol 1 - Kickstarter Trailer\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1122148292?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s the basic idea of <em>Independence Day <\/em>meets <em><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a> of Thrones<\/em>,\u201d says Millar in a video announcing the project. \u201cThe idea of a portal opening up in the middle of New York City, and dragons, barbarians, all these hordes coming in \u2026 and wiping out America, just taking the country down. And they\u2019ve got their eyes on the rest of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tDespite all the dragons, orcs and barbarians, the intention is for the story to be grounded. The Kickstarter runs for the month of October, with the book hailing from Side Hustle Comics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<em>Conquered<\/em> stands separate from Millar\u2019s work at Netflix, which purchased his company Millarworld in 2017 and has developed its titles into onscreen projects such as <em>Jupiter\u2019s Legacy<\/em> and <em>The Chosen One<\/em>.  Earlier this year, he and <em>Kick-Ass <\/em>collaborator John Romita Jr. launched a separate Kickstarter for the book <em>Psychic Sam<\/em>, which brought in more than $100,000 in pledges. <\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content-image \/\/  \">\n<figure class=\"o-figure   size-large alignnone lrv-u-max-width-100p\" style=\"width:1417px\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  \">\n<div class=\"lrv-a-crop-16x9\" style=\"padding-bottom:calc((2083\/1417)*100%);\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-hollywoodreporter-2021\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Conquered-pages-images_680-px_150_2.png?w=1417\" alt=\"\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"2083\" width=\"1417\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"c-figcaption  lrv-u-padding-tb-025\">\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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