Comments on: 365 Reasons to Love Comics #310

By: Comics Should Be Good! » 365 Reasons to Love Comics #314

Comics Should Be Good! » 365 Reasons to Love Comics #314 — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:49:26 +0000

[...] Phillips was also part of “The British Invasion,” working for Vertigo on everything from Hellblazer (with, among others, Jamie Delano and Eddie Campbell) to The Invisibles (with fellow Reason to Love Comics, Grant Morrison) to The Minx (with Peter Milligan). Each was trippier than the last, and Phillips’ evolved as well, becoming looser and grittier. [...]

By: Comics Should Be Good! » 365 Reasons to Love Comics #355

Comics Should Be Good! » 365 Reasons to Love Comics #355 — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:52:40 +0000

[...] Philip Bond has a habit of working with some of my favorite writers. He and Peter Milligan collaborated on a neat little mini called Vertigo Pop: London about an aging rock star and the young musician with whom he swaps bodies. I don’t think it was collected, which is a shame, because I think it would go over really well in the right circles– but then, I could say that about all of Phil Bond’s stuff. His style is “cool” and “hip,” as the kids might say– his comics are the kinds of things that could sell well in music shops. Bond also filled in for an issue of Milligan’s X-Statix run in a great one-shot story about Edie Sawyer. [...]

By: Comics Should Be Good! » 365 Reasons to Love Comics Archive

Comics Should Be Good! » 365 Reasons to Love Comics Archive — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 19:08:25 +0000

[...] 310. Peter Milligan [...]

By: Omega Alpha

Omega Alpha — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:14:50 +0000

I hear some good things about most of his other work, but his X-men run is so bad that makes Chuck Austen look good, and every time I remember I end up losing lots of interest for his work. Yeah, it’s unfair, like being afraid of watching Coppola’s other movies because your first was The Rainmaker, but it’s going to take a while to take the image of Black Gambit out of my mind.

By: Comics Should Be Good! » 365 Reasons to Love Comics #311

Comics Should Be Good! » 365 Reasons to Love Comics #311 — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:53:44 +0000

[...] Finally, however, Christopher Chance got his due when Peter Milligan started writing him, starting with a four-issue mini-series for Vertigo with art by the late great Edvin Biukovic. Milligan presented Chance as a man so caught up in the identities of the people he’s pretending to be that he tends to forget who he is. He literally becomes the person. Also in this mini, we meet Tom McFadden, Chance’s protÃ©gÃ©, who is dangerously close to becoming as unhinged as Chance himself. It’s a terrific mini. Milligan followed it up with a standalone graphic novel, Final Cut, that brought Chance into another world of disguise and deception– Hollywood. It was also pretty darn good, and drawn this time by Javier Pulido. [...]

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:24:41 +0000

X-Force was one of my most favorite comics ever. It had everything I want in a book: Trippy, satirical writing, Allred’s pop art, and a floating green blob with an endless void in his belly.

If I was any good at costume-making, Mr. Sensitive is the one superhero costume I would actually go full geek for.

By: milligan&still...again

milligan&still...again — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:54:56 +0000

Two glaring omissions from your list of Milligan’s admittedly large body of work:
Skreemer, an unusual blend of futuristic gangster story with James Joyce.
Skin, a deeply disturbing, deeply touching book with Brendan McCarthy. Hard to find, and a bit hard to take, but well worth it.

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:56:31 +0000

Good call – I love me some Pete Milligan!

I’m surprised to hear his Batman Annual isn’t good. His run on the character in the late 80′s is fantastic!

By: Mark Tague

Mark Tague — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:19:31 +0000

Peter Milligan is my favorite of the large invasionary force of British comic writers that began to arrive on our shores in the mid-eighties. His Schade, The Changing Man alone cements his placement on a list of “Reasons to Love Comics”. When this series first appeared, I approached it with some disdain. After all, it used the name of Steve Ditko’s aborted title, and to me that was already questionable. Tried the first issue found it confusing and yes, off-putting. Stopped buying it for about the next 10 issues or so. While travelling to Washington, stayed with an friend who had the issues and was wildly positive about the title. I read them in one sitting and was permanently on board. It is a series that I have reread many times since, and always find it a delight. Great characters and a a plot, especially the early quest for America became a template of edgier series(think Preacher for instance). I have gone on to read nearly everthing he has written, even the mainstream stuff. Always interesting, sometimes flawed, but his flaws come from trying to reach for something extra, rather than settling for the mundane.

By: Peter Gasston

Peter Gasston — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:36:39 +0000

As you mentioned, what stops him from being known as a great writer is that he’s infuriatingly inconsistent. Most mainstream comics writers have periods of doing hack work, but in Milligan’s case they are sometimes not just anonymous, but awful.

Take this year’s Batman Annual for example; it was boring and obvious, with no distinguishing passages at all. From the writer of Shade & Enigma this is a crying shame.

By: Andrew Collins

Andrew Collins — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:34:00 +0000

Shade was amazing, and I keep hoping DC will start giving us volume 2+ of the series in trades…

By: stealthwise

stealthwise — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:31:38 +0000

X-Force was great, but I always found his other stuff to be underwhelming.

By: Chickeninja

Chickeninja — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:30:48 +0000

Milligan will always be a writer I love, if only because the idea of a naked Iron Man wrestling a naked Mr. Sensitive is made of total win.

By: Greg Burgas

Greg Burgas — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:22:12 +0000

I’m only on ‘G’! Human Target and Shade and Skreemer and X-Statix will show up eventually! But not Elektra. Man, definitely not Elektra.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:24:53 +0000

Human Target is one of my favorite series of the past decade. I declare it a Comic You Should Own, even if you guys haven’t yet.