There is, on the other hand, a much more fun experiment to run. Which doesn’t really lead us to any meaningful conclusion unless it’s your fervent belief that comics history begins and ends with Watchmen. And then we plunge further down the rabbit hole until we eventually land on the sacred year of 1986. But then, The Ultimates were the direct consequence of a chain reaction that began in Hitch and Warren Ellis’ The Authority, which, of course, was an outgrowth of Jim Lee’s Wildstorm imprint of Image Comics. The most expedient answer to what shines through the brightest in the comics scaffolding of said movie empire is Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch’s The Ultimates. A principle that has special meaning for closing out the decade that the Disney fueled Marvel Cinematic Universe eclipsed the box office in. Their antecedents can be traced as far back as you want to expand the scope of inquiry and their vestigial legacy can be dilated just as far into the future. Where artistic movements begin and end are rarely, if ever, easily pinned down to fixed points in time. History is a slippery subject, especially in the arts. I am the hornet that stings.’ There was an immediate uproar, so not having anything more to say, I shouted out, ‘Happy New Year, losers.’ And that was that. I grabbed a microphone and said, ‘I’m no fly on the wall.
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