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Dave said:
Huh? Stark is Iron Man because he wants to do good before his brain tumour kills him. Cap is only with the Ultimates because his need to serve his country is the only constant in his life. Thor only helps out becvause he gets on well with Stark. Hulk is a slave to his impulses (nothing to do with fame). Black Widow and Hawkeye are soldiers. Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver aren't even public, and help in exchange for the release of political prisoners. Only Wasp and Giant Man have celebrity status as a motivator.



I was generalizing(I thought that was obvious), but as I said, Cap is an exception. Generally, Millar characters are bastards, either pure villains or heroes that blur the lines between right and wrong. I'm not even sure I can say Thor is a moral person yet, because his true motives haven't been revealed fully. I think his clash with the team may be due more to his own arrogance(since he views himself as a god) than to any true objection to what they do. His role in the team and tolerance of their actions seems contradictory.

Hulk isn't a member of the team(at least not up until the point when I read), he was an obstacle, so I wasn't really thinking of him. Stark lives up the celebrity life just as much as Wasp, Giant Man and Fury, and loves it. For Stark it's like a mid life crisis(or rather an end life crisis), only instead of buying a Porsche he joins a super-team.

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As for the Authority, Millar's very first arc, with the opening line, "Why don't superpeople take out the real bastards?" sets a higher moral tone than any other comic has for decades.



They may have been moral people at some point, but as I said, Millar took the book down the road he felt it was inevitably going, corrupting the team and supplanting a desire to do good with greed and self-indulgence, which led to their defeat. It's like an exaggerated thesis for the "power corrupts" angle that has become so popular in comics today.

MisterJLA is RACKing awesome.