Time & Perspective Quote by Mark Millar

Millar frames comics-making the way Silicon Valley frames a startup: not a calling, an experiment with a runway. “Six or seven year” is a cold, almost managerial unit of time, the language of a creator who’s thinking in cycles, deliverables, and exit strategies. That’s the tell. He’s not promising a grand saga; he’s promising controlled volatility.

The “bursts” line does double duty. On the surface, it’s an honest expectation-setter for readers trained by monthly issues and reliable arcs. Underneath, it’s brand engineering: scarcity as a feature, not a flaw. A burst implies an event, a drop, a moment when attention concentrates. In a culture of endless content, Millar is describing a way to manufacture urgency and keep a property feeling “special” rather than simply ongoing.

“Only with the best quality artists” is the quiet power move. It signals curation, yes, but also leverage. Millar built a reputation on high-concept premises that travel well across media; attaching top-tier art becomes both a quality pledge and a recruitment pitch. It’s also a subtle admission of how comics function as a visual marketplace: writers can generate ideas, but artists determine prestige, readability, and ultimately whether a book feels like an “event” or another item in the pile.

Context matters: this is the post-Image, creator-owned era, when the real competition isn’t other comics so much as Netflix queues, game releases, and attention itself. Millar’s intent is to protect the signal by limiting the noise.