CHRONONAUTS: Universal Options Mark Millar's Time Travel Comic

Andrew Mack, Editor, News; Toronto, Canada (@Mack_SAnarchy)

March 20 2015, 11:00 AM

Why have we gone with a full sized image of the cover of the first issue of Mark Millar and Sean Gordon Murphy's new comic book Chrononauts? We will get to that in a mo'. It is very interesting stuff. What is also interesting is that in a report over at Deadline Universal has already optioned the comic for producer Chris Gordon and his production banner. The comic only just debuted this week. That's it. One issue so far. Optioned! According to Murphy's Twitter feed Universal optioned this way back in August.

Morgan himself has penned the last five Fast & Furious films. Things did not start off okay with Tokyo Drift but got steadily crazier with the four after that once Justin Lin took over and James Wan took the mantle for Furious 7.

Mark Millar is no stranger to fantastic film either. His graphic novels Wanted, Kick-Ass and the recent Kingsman: The Secret Service have all enjoyed some level of success in their transitions to film.

And now on to some freaky stuff. Take another look at that cover. Do you see the optical illusion that artist Sean Gordon Murphy put in it? Do not stress out if you can. after the first issue dropped Murphy revealed the illusion via his Twitter account.

[Tweet from @Sean_G_Murphy]

If you can't see the green hourglass, don't strain yourself too hard trying to focus it into existence for you -- only 1 in 15 people can apparently make it out. The illusion is a form of synesthesia, where only a certain way your brain is wired will let you see the inherent colours of the hourglass in the watch face. via io9

How cool is that? I am not one of those in the fifteen that can see that, but again, how cool is that? Now I have to go to my local den of geekdom and pick up a copy to see what potential Universal sees in this property.