Cortesía de CBR tenemos el primer look a lo que será la nueva serie de Mark Millar y Leinil Francis Yu, Supercrooks. ¿De qué va la serie?
Supercrooks is such a simple idea – the guy that runs Marvel, Dan Buckley, said to me once “You’re the master of the obvious idea”, and it took me about an hour to figure out that it was an insult. Kick-Ass is one of those stories that is kind of obvious, it’s about what would happen if somebody without super powers in the real world tried to become a superhero. This is another one of those really simple concepts – all the superheroes live in America, so why do the supervillains always commit crimes in Metropolis, Gotham City, or Star City? Why don’t they just go somewhere where there are no superheroes? It would make life an awful lot easier for them (…) So the idea is a bunch of super-villains get together to pull off one last job; the biggest job of their career.
Oh yes, un montón de supervillanos se van a un país donde no hay superhéroes. Este Millar y sus ideas vendibles. Porque sí, aún no leemos nada y ya estaría siendo adquirida para una adaptación. De hecho fue comprada cuando ni siquiera se había escrito una página. Locura comercial.
Well, this was quite weird, it happened at Kapow Comic-con. I wasn’t going to announce this until next year, but we ended up having a gap in the schedule because we ended up not announcing the Dave Gibbons project. We had this panel where we said we were announcing something, but we didn’t have anything to announce! So Leinil drew the cover [to Supercrooks] for me that morning – he put the advert together in an hour on his iPad. Then we plugged [the iPad] into the panel at Kapow and the image popped up, and everybody seemed to really like it. We needed something to plug the gap, but it went viral and everybody started talking about it online. Universal Studios has some spies at Kapow, there was a studio presence that I knew about and there were people that I didn’t know about. So Universal heard about it, got in touch on the Wednesday and bought it that night! It was absolutely crazy! It’s such a ridiculous story but it’s absolutely true.
Acá tiene la portada de esta “nueva” historia:
De hecho el mes pasado ya habían comenzado a hacer la adaptación del guion junto a un director español