An interview with Mark Millar
It’s kind of creepy seeing the pain that the X-Men and The Authority are in at the very same time because, subconsciously, I was writing about the fact that my entire central nervous system was under attack and I literally hurt from head-to-toe. The whites of my eyes had gone completely red and I was in hospital every week for almost an entire year. When I look at The Ultimates issue one, it freaks me out to see the letter from Captain America to his girlfriend in 1945. It was a letter saying how much he loved her and how much he’d miss her if he didn’t come back. I remember writing that scene in the kitchen on the same day I was advised to write my own will for my wife and toddler and the Dear Gail could just as easily have been a Dear Gill, which really jolted me at the time.