Goodreads asked Mark Millar:

What are you currently working on?

Mark Millar I mainly work in comics, which means I write a number of things at once. Chrononauts is about man sending a satellite through the time-stream and beaming back pictures from the American Civil War. This leads to NASA’s first MANNED-MISSION through time and two scientists do a televised jump to 1492, the mission naturally going all wrong. The other book I have out right now is called Jupiter’s Circle and it’s kind of the Justice League meets Mad-Men, a very sexual, emotional book set in 1959 focusing on the private lives of a group of glamorous New York superheroes and what they do between the comic-book adventures we’re used to seeing. It’s a bit more like a Fellini film than a Marvel movie, just very grown-up tales about marriages falling apart and wandering eyes and the disappointment that comes sometimes with your thirties and forties. It’s not the usual teenage fare, emphasising instead what’s going on behind the masks and the funny suits. The first story is about a closeted superhero in the 50s hanging out with Kathryn Hepburn and keeping his secret gay life from even his team-mates, his story based on a combination of Rock Hudson and Cary Grant with a very powerfully heterosexual image being pushed to the public while his private life has him being blackmailed by the FBI. The Avengers this ain’t!

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