jhalbright wrote:
[A] Well, Millar has been known to wildly exaggerate things in the past, hence some of us being a little dubious.  [B] Plus, I can't imagine that he wasn't including movie income as part of his blanket statement
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[C] The biggest problem with a creator-owned book is publicity, promotion and distribution.  Those are major hurdles, and if you ask any independent small press comic creator, you'll find that none of them are getting rich anytime soon.  For this particular book, the major hurdles were taken care of due to Millar's association with Marvel.
[A] True.

[B] No, he specifically was talking about the comics money (this was when the first issue came out, before the movie sold).

[C] Also true, but that's one reason it's plausible he made a ton on Kick-Ass.  IIRC, it was selling along the lines of a pretty good-selling, not top-tier, Marvel book.  And Millar (and Romita) was getting a decent cut of those sales from the first copy.  When his hype is along the lines of "THIS IS THE GREATEST THING EVER WRITTEN," I roll my eyes like everybody else.  But when he says "I'm making more money on this specific book than on any of my work-for-hire books," that is specific enough and, in light of the economics of creator-owned comics, plausible enough that I believe him.  And again, he's the one who gets to compare the royalty statements. He should know which ones are bigger.

Medieval Guy, a.k.a. Rob Helmerichs
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