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The Ambassadors
The Ambassadors #1
MINISERIES PREMIERE
The most ambitious comic book of all time is finally here!
Imagine you could gift superpowers to six people. In a world of eight billion, who do you choose? Join six of the greatest artists in the industry for an enormous story about ordinary people from around the world explaining why it should be them.
This first story features artwork by superstar FRANK QUITELY.
The most ambitious comic book of all time is finally here!
Imagine you could gift superpowers to six people. In a world of eight billion, who do you choose? Join six of the greatest artists in the industry for an enormous story about ordinary people from around the world explaining why it should be them.
This first story features artwork by superstar FRANK QUITELY.
- GenresComicsGraphic Novels
31 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 29, 2023
5 people are currently reading
54 people want to read
About the author
Mark Millar
1,288 books2,561 followersMark Millar is the New York Times best-selling writer of Wanted, the Kick-Ass series, The Secret Service, Jupiter’s Legacy, Jupiter’s Circle, Nemesis, Superior, Super Crooks, American Jesus, MPH, Starlight, and Chrononauts. Wanted, Kick-Ass, Kick-Ass 2, and The Secret Service (as Kingsman: The Secret Service) have been adapted into feature films, and Nemesis, Superior, Starlight, War Heroes, Jupiter’s Legacy and Chrononauts are in development at major studios.
His DC Comics work includes the seminal Superman: Red Son, and at Marvel Comics he created The Ultimates – selected by Time magazine as the comic book of the decade, Wolverine: Old Man Logan, and Civil War – the industry’s biggest-selling superhero series in almost two decades.
Mark has been an Executive Producer on all his movie adaptations and is currently creative consultant to Fox Studios on their Marvel slate of movies.
His DC Comics work includes the seminal Superman: Red Son, and at Marvel Comics he created The Ultimates – selected by Time magazine as the comic book of the decade, Wolverine: Old Man Logan, and Civil War – the industry’s biggest-selling superhero series in almost two decades.
Mark has been an Executive Producer on all his movie adaptations and is currently creative consultant to Fox Studios on their Marvel slate of movies.
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August 27, 2025
(A-) 80% | Very Good
Notes: Cool idea, expert art, if seemingly extraneous parts, it's suitably mature and dark, not too obscene, but leaves a mark.
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Notes: Cool idea, expert art, if seemingly extraneous parts, it's suitably mature and dark, not too obscene, but leaves a mark.
*Progress update
April 10, 2023
Oh this is the stuffffff!!!!!!! Good writing, and great art... aaaand South Africa represent 🙌 👏 😎 👌... I hope I'll not be disappointed in the next issue 🙃😀
April 11, 2023
Didn't mind this at all!
It was a bit slow and confusing at first, so wasn't sure how I'd feel about it. But once the ball was rolling, I'm really happy with the direction it took.
Artwork isn't normally what I'd go for, but I suspect its the kind of thing that will grow on me.
This was a great 'tip of the iceberg' starting point, so I'm looking forward to #2!
It was a bit slow and confusing at first, so wasn't sure how I'd feel about it. But once the ball was rolling, I'm really happy with the direction it took.
Artwork isn't normally what I'd go for, but I suspect its the kind of thing that will grow on me.
This was a great 'tip of the iceberg' starting point, so I'm looking forward to #2!
April 7, 2023
Great start. I’ll definitely be there for issue #2.
April 19, 2023
Første issue i Mark Miller og Frank Quietlys nye samarbejde. Virkelig, virkelig lovende historie. Hold nu op hvor jeg glæder mig til at se hvor de tager serien hen.
April 2, 2023
I’m intrigued.
December 22, 2023
This series was next up on my catching up with Millarverse after reading the Big Game mini-series event. How did I miss how prolific Millar was in 2023???
I love the concept, but why only 6 people given powers out of 8 billion? Everyone got their own genie in Eight Billion Genies, but that was a different Image series well outside the Millarverse. 6 still seems an odd choice as it's so disproportionate to the global population and number of countries available to put forward a candidate for powers. That alone intrigues me to a degree that I want to read all 6 issues of this even if I weren't curious about how it later ties in to Big Game.
Alot of this issue focuses on things that the United States has done in pushing the boundaries of science and ethics in trying to develop a superhuman. As an American, I like how it touches on real programs and conspiracy theory. I LOVE how it subverts the expectation that some American will ultimately succeed in these efforts. Choon-He 2.0 is awesome and I'm going to bump my rating from 4 to 5 stars just for her. Jailed in Cheongju Women's Correctional Institution for fraud her husband committed, Choon-He still manages to make herself a new body to upload her mind into while downloading superpowers that she was somehow able to create. She calls herself the world's smartest woman and we're actually shown evidence of that in this issue. Unlike the Chrononauts series that I just finished where we're told Drs Quinn and Reilly are genius level intelligence, but I failed to see that in 8 issues of their series.
I love seeing how scared a male American president is at the thought of a Korean woman having superpowers and offering them to others who prove themselves to be "altruistic people." Coming into this having read Big Game first, I know how the Ambassador for America is chosen and I loved that so I'm eager to see how the other, original Ambassadors come to be. I'm also very curious about the South African man at the end of this issue because if he isn't an Ambassador yet...how'd he do that?
I love the concept, but why only 6 people given powers out of 8 billion? Everyone got their own genie in Eight Billion Genies, but that was a different Image series well outside the Millarverse. 6 still seems an odd choice as it's so disproportionate to the global population and number of countries available to put forward a candidate for powers. That alone intrigues me to a degree that I want to read all 6 issues of this even if I weren't curious about how it later ties in to Big Game.
Alot of this issue focuses on things that the United States has done in pushing the boundaries of science and ethics in trying to develop a superhuman. As an American, I like how it touches on real programs and conspiracy theory. I LOVE how it subverts the expectation that some American will ultimately succeed in these efforts. Choon-He 2.0 is awesome and I'm going to bump my rating from 4 to 5 stars just for her. Jailed in Cheongju Women's Correctional Institution for fraud her husband committed, Choon-He still manages to make herself a new body to upload her mind into while downloading superpowers that she was somehow able to create. She calls herself the world's smartest woman and we're actually shown evidence of that in this issue. Unlike the Chrononauts series that I just finished where we're told Drs Quinn and Reilly are genius level intelligence, but I failed to see that in 8 issues of their series.
I love seeing how scared a male American president is at the thought of a Korean woman having superpowers and offering them to others who prove themselves to be "altruistic people." Coming into this having read Big Game first, I know how the Ambassador for America is chosen and I loved that so I'm eager to see how the other, original Ambassadors come to be. I'm also very curious about the South African man at the end of this issue because if he isn't an Ambassador yet...how'd he do that?
April 8, 2023
Millar World! The Greatest that Comic Books have to offer! Large Fonts! REALLY LARGE FONTS! You're not reading a comic you're reading a TV Show! We're streaming the art right into those pages as you turn them. MILLARRRRRRR! He's at a meeting right now in Century City making your life better. You want ambition??? He's got it baby! This comic was okay but I wasn't ecstatically hyperventilating from this glorified storyboard for Netflix. You know who Mark Millar reminds me of? Dane Cook. A large font guy who tapped into the Woo Hoo crowd and rode them to stardom. My breakdown of the similarities and if this comic warrants the 150pt font treatment is here:
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June 10, 2023
La lecture est gênée par le sentiment omniprésent que l’histoire est construite uniquement dans le but d’en faire une base de scénario pour Netflix. Peu de profondeur. Juste un croisement d’idées opportunistes. Je me suis fait avoir par la maîtrise du dessin de Frank Quitely dans le premier numéro. Il faut d’ailleurs savoir qu’à chaque tome l’artiste change. Ce qui accentue ce manque de profondeur.
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The reading is hampered by the omnipresent feeling that the story is constructed solely for the purpose of making it the basis of a screenplay for Netflix. Little depth. Just an opportunistic crossover of ideas. I was taken in by Frank Quitely's mastery of drawing in the first issue. It's worth noting that the artist changes with each volume. Which accentuates the lack of depth.
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March 29, 2023Good Ole Mark Millar is at it Again...
In my opinion, Millar is at his best when he's writing superhero stuff (Ultimates I and II are the Gold Standard for me). With the exception of Jupiter's Legacy: Requiem (which I regretably hated), everything he's created has been, at bare minimum, worth reading. So far, I'm digging what he's doing with The Ambassadors; and, come on, you can never go wrong when Frank Quitely is "shooting" the action. Definitely give it a whirl when you have a moment.
In my opinion, Millar is at his best when he's writing superhero stuff (Ultimates I and II are the Gold Standard for me). With the exception of Jupiter's Legacy: Requiem (which I regretably hated), everything he's created has been, at bare minimum, worth reading. So far, I'm digging what he's doing with The Ambassadors; and, come on, you can never go wrong when Frank Quitely is "shooting" the action. Definitely give it a whirl when you have a moment.
April 19, 2023
4.5 Stars. I was pretty impressed by this first issue. I've actually been looking forward to this for a while now & it didn't dissapoint. It was even a little better than I was hoping it would be. I think it's great that it's apparently going to be a bi-weekly as well, at least for the first arc anyway. It'd be even better if Frank Quitely did the artwork for the whole series, instead of just the first issue, but you can't have it all.
May 1, 2023
I finally got my hands on a copy of this after it had been FLYING off the shelf at my work. And I felt a bit disappointed. The story is unique and intriguing... But I felt like the story was pretty slow placed in sections. The art (while stunning) also a bit much in spots (the suicide panel). Really wanted to like this. But I don't think it's for me.
May 12, 2023
Turns out Super girl is Korean!
I love this premise and I've always thought that Mark and Frank make a great team. If this first issue is any indication I've got another must read series. Another plus is usually these Millar books have an ending so its not an ongoing commitment.
I am all in!
I love this premise and I've always thought that Mark and Frank make a great team. If this first issue is any indication I've got another must read series. Another plus is usually these Millar books have an ending so its not an ongoing commitment.
I am all in!
June 25, 2023
Millar’s premise here is the offer of superpowers from a super powered Korean woman named Choon-He via Project Korea.
Interesting plot and the highly detailed, fine line art by Frank Quitely opens this six issue series with a different artist on each issue.
Interesting plot and the highly detailed, fine line art by Frank Quitely opens this six issue series with a different artist on each issue.
June 25, 2023
Art 5
Story 4
Of course we have a great Millar’s #1…
Story 4
Of course we have a great Millar’s #1…
April 30, 2025
The premise is refreshing. Superpowers are real, and finally the nicest people are the ones benefiting, not the richest.
For the first time in a while, I couldn't stop reading until it was done.
For the first time in a while, I couldn't stop reading until it was done.
May 19, 2025
Mark Millar has done it again! Everything from this book is perfect!!! Pure fanboy enjoyment!!
April 29, 2023
I wish Frank Quietly drew EVERY comic book.
I mean not just this series. I mean EVERY comic book EVER!
Past, present, future!
Love his art. Just love it.
I mean not just this series. I mean EVERY comic book EVER!
Past, present, future!
Love his art. Just love it.
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