Jones recently teamed up with Mark Waid to write Strange Fruit for BOOM! Studios, for which he provided the lushly painted art. Editions for Wanted: 1582404976 (Paperback published in 2007), 1845769082 (Paperback published in 2009), 1582409331 (Hardcover published in 2008), 158240. He then co-created Top Cow Comics' breakout sensation, WANTED, with writer Mark Millar, before to DC, to work with Grant Morrison on the epic Final Crisis, and Brian Azzarello's Before Watchmen: The Comedian. His cover work included many titles, but he may be best remembered for providing all 52 covers for DC Comics' groundbreaking weekly title, 52. Vaughan's Y: The Last Man, as well as Wonder Woman. has always been a prolific cover artist, painting covers for Brian K. and writer Devin Grayson introduced the Yelena Belova character in Marvel Knights Black Widow limited series, followed by creating and drawing Marvel Boy with Grant Morrison, before working on Greg Rucka's Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia.
He has contributed both covers and interior art for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Wildstorm, Dark Horse, Dynamite, BOOM!, Top Cow, Valiant, Defiant, Broadway, and Crusade Comics.
He has been nominated for 3 Eisner Awards, as well being credited for his work as Co-Producer for Universal Pictures film version of the graphic novel, WANTED along with Mark Millar. Jones is a Cover Artist, Painter, Penciller, Inker, and Writer. There will be some stuff from that, so in the loosest sense it will be based on the book, but only very little.J.G. “It will be some of the stuff that we didn’t utilize from the first book for the movie. “It will be a small outline that can possibly be picked apart and not used – but it will be something exclusively for the second film, and no one will ever really see it.” “What I will be doing is providing them with a very small amount of stuff for a story and that will be used as a basic story that they can build from,” says Millar of sequel ideas. I love doing new stuff anyway – I get bored so quickly.”Īll of which means that should a sequel ever see the light of day (which is likely considering Wanted’ healthy box office), Miller won’t be interested in juggling two different universes, instead reverting to the rather tamer (trust us, the comic is dirrrty) movie translation. “And even when I’m adamant about something like this, people don’t believe me, but there is nothing else coming from Wanted. In an interview with Newsarama, Millar discusses his disinterest in a comic follow-up to his original books: “I’ve got this reputation of being a total whore,” he says. So much so, in fact, that the writer is already talking up sequel ideas, but this time he’s not even thinking about continuing with the comic’s continuity.
While some people grumbled about the rather weighty differences between Timur Bekmambetov’s adaptation of Mark Millar’s cult graphic novel Wanted and the original source material, one person was seemingly happy with the final product and that was Millar himself.
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