Mark Millar’s been hinting about a new creator-owned “Millarworld” project at Icon for quite some time, now. All we’ve known up until this point is that it’s another superhero story, Leinil Francis Yu is drawing it and Millar’s already been talking to Matthew Vaughn about directing a big screen adaptation of it, just like he did with KICK-ASS. Other than that, we haven’t seen  neither hide nor hare regarding it. Now, we’ve come across a print ad campaign at Bleeding Cool (by way of CBR) which is effectively a preview of the preview feature that’s going to run in the Wizard issue Millar's guest-editing later this month.

I’ve always got to tip my hat to Millar. The man knows how to promote.

But what about the previews themselves? What do they reveal about this project, which we now know to be titled SUPERIOR? I’ll agree that it clearly seems to be about a superhero who’s going to use his awesome powers to finally solve some major global problems and shape the fate of the world - - a theme that’s been explored in the likes of MIRACLE MAN, THE AUTHORITY and even in the DCU with that JLA: SUPERPOWER special from a few years back. I can’t help feeling an undercurrent of menace to these previews, what with the black backdrops and blood red words and all. Seeing as how WANTED, KICK-ASS and NEMESIS have all explored the darker sides of the superhero paradigm, I wouldn’t be surprised to see SUPERIOR doing something similar. Perhaps this story’s world is ruled by a super-being whose ideals of right and wrong aren’t in line with those he imposes them on? Who knows?
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Anyway, here are the previews...

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-- Tom Pinchuk is the writer of UNIMAGINABLE for Arcana Studios and HYBRID BASTARDS! for Archaia. HYBRID BASTARDS! is available  here and UNIMAGINABLE is available here for pre-order on Amazon.com.  

well i certainly love Yu's art. and I like Millar's works so this seems promising

nemesis #2 where r u? Kick-Ass vol. 2?

Looks like I'm gonna add a new book to my pull!
 
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And the hits just keep on coming!

I like it all ready.

Newsweek looks great.

  Leinil Francis Yu is awesome, I may give it a shot. 

Sounds interesting .

It's obviously the Sentry LOL

Shouldn't he finish up Nemesis before starting on another series? Unless he's already finished it up and we're waiting on Steve McNiven and the colorist for the other 4 issues.  Although apparently Steve was in the hospital for a while and that's why the delays on Nemesis....which is totally understandable. 
 
Also if you ask me it looks like Nemesis but with Superman instead, basically instead of "what If Batman was the Joker?" this looks like "What if Superman was Lex Luthor?"

Millar and Leinil Yu?  yeah I'm reading this

Where the hell is Nemesis? I F****** loved Issue 1 then these days I get really paranoid that I've missed the other issues for some reason, they've not come out then?

Dig Millar's stuff, but these promo images seem hokie to me.

maybe it will be like tangent superman where he decides that he can solve everthing but ends up becoming a dictator and his people have no real freedom

Wasn't  "Look To The Skies" a tagline for Countdown?

" nemesis #2 where r u? Kick-Ass vol. 2? "

This looks interesting, I will be checking this out, plus my birthday's in October (hint, hint, family members >_>)
 
Here are some random Ideas that just popped into my head...

1. Haven't been reading Nemesis, but maybe since that book is about a villain, maybe this book is about Nemesis' literal "nemesis?"
2. Maybe it's also like Nemesis in the sense that instead of a villain as the main character, it's a hero?
   

Maybe Miller wants to write a "Superman" who will actaully do something about the worlds problems and explore that whole idea and the ramifications it will entail.....!?!?!

Seems more like a movie rather than a comic book. And it looks kinda creepy.

Superman plus Lex Luthor?

this is about Obama, for sure.  he's going to save us all, you know?

Man, he just keeps on starting more and more projects... whatever happened to War Heroes?

Cool creative team!

just can't stop Mark Millar

Sounds interesting.  Millar's take on Superman?