WWC: Hollywood, Pranks and Booze: Millar Time at Wizard World

[andy khouri]

Mark Millar entertained a full house of fans at Wizard World Chicago, telling tales of practical jokes on Brian Bendis, sunbathing with Angelina Jolie and reading zombie comics at funerals.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=11557

[Kefky]

Knowing Bendis is a great fan of playwright David Mamet, Millar researched specific details of Mamet's career and body of work to ensure his prank's authenticity. He set up a false e-mail account and sent a series of e-mails to Bendis, claiming to be Mamet and extolling Bendis as not only his favorite comics writer, but the best writer at Marvel in 40 years. Later, Millar as Mamet expressed a desire to collaborate with Bendis on a Spider-Man project. Bendis replied, essentially giving Millar-Mamet carte blanche approval to develop any story ideas. Millar-Mamet responded with what he called “the shittiest thing I could come up with.” Some of his pitches included a Spider-Man bored with policing Tribeca and deciding to take off into space as an explorer. Millar-Mamet also pitched a Spider-caveman. After a lag in e-mail response, Millar finally received a 3-word reply from Bendis: “Fuck you, Millar.”

Still hilarious after all this time.