Parenting & Family Quote by Mark Millar

Millar is picking a fight with the snobbery that still clings to genre work, especially anything with a cape. When he says he doesn’t see one form as “better or more literate,” he’s not pleading for permission; he’s flattening the hierarchy. “Literate” here isn’t about vocabulary. It’s code for legitimacy, the idea that a novel is Serious Art while comics are clever toys. Millar’s move is to reject the premise and talk instead about the high of the work: the “buzz.”

That word matters. It’s deliberately un-academic, closer to backstage adrenaline than MFA gravitas. Millar frames writing Superman as a creative rush and a responsibility, not a downgrade. He’s also staking out a populist ethic: craft isn’t proven by obscurity. If you can write something “kids can enjoy” while still satisfying adult readers, you’ve solved a harder problem than writing only for the initiated.

The subtext is career-defensive and culturally savvy. Millar came up during the era when British writers invaded American superhero comics and when Hollywood began treating comics as an IP goldmine. In that environment, “writing for kids” can sound like either a marketing line or a confession. Millar flips it into a badge: accessibility as ambition. Superman becomes the ultimate test case - an icon so overexposed you can’t hide behind novelty, and so intergenerational you’re forced to write with clarity, pace, and heart.