Comic books

[Joe Rogaine]

A recurring question on this thread is "I don't know anything about comics. What are some good ones to start with?" So, here's a pretty good list of suggestions.

If thats the same list I saw last week its pretty good except for the exclusion of anything by a Harvey Pekar.

Just like Watchmen and Sandman made me more interested in comics in general, there's no way I would have gotten into alternative comic books if it weren't for American Splendor.

I hear ya!

[erechoveraker]

Just read this over on Lying in the Gutters:

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Dan DiDio is currently in the process of recruiting film and TV writers for their books. The recent “Batman: Cacophony” by Kevin Smith and Walt Flanagan has been cited, apparently the script was perfect, with very little editing needed.

This, of course, would be the comic where the The Joker offers his bottom to be sexually violated by his rescuer, jokes about the colour of his pubic hair, a scene depicting genital torture and no sign of a Mature Readers tag.

He never wants out of the hate pit, does he? God, can you imagine the dumb conversations Batman and Alfred are going to have, how is Smith going to shoehorn in Star Wars references there? Oh what a horrible trainwreck this is going to be.

EDIT - Or rather is, as the first issue came out last week. Yikes.

[snogrog]

I don't want to be known as the guy that defended Kevin Smith, because lord knows i've realized I can't stand him most of the time. And yes, the way he makes the Joker acts in the issue in question is...well terrible. But the actual story wasn't the worst. I had no intention of buying it but didn't realize it was in my pull list (I just get Batman normally, not the mini series or anything) and figured I'd give it a chance rather than put it aside without reading it. Not the best, not terrible. above average.

And I didn't know there was a comics thread on here. Very nice.

[erechoveraker]

I really liked his Daredevil run with Quesada, it was really good and might even actually hold up.

[snogrog]

Yeah, still probably his best comics work.

[snogrog]

actually, same goes for Quesada too.

[Bryan]

Sweet jesus! A list of 75 movies in the works that are based on comic books.

[Spoony]

This covered pretty much every comic I've ever heard of that isn't on Oni. Where's Barry Ween's movie? What about the Hopeless Savages?

C

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The Superhero movie genre is going to crash and burn pretty hard in a couple years. 

[erechoveraker]

Yeah, that's what they keep saying, but it only ever takes a Dark Knight or an Iron Man for them to keep pumping out your Ghost Rider's and... Superhero Movies.

Half the stuff on that list probably won't happen though, at least I hope so. What'd Jim McLaughlin used to say - 'comic book movies only exist to disappoint you/us', or something like that?

[Regular Joe]

Two that I wish were on the list that aren't: The Authority, and The Walking Dead.

One that I was actually excited about on that list: Live action Justice League movie! That would be fun if they did it right.

[Bryan]

Did you ever see the 1997(ish) live action Justice League movie that was made?



I thought it would at least be "fun". It wasn't. I'd love to see it done right, but can't for the life of me imagine it happening.

[snogrog]

They tried to do a Justice League movie last year and it sounded like an awful idea. It was to be all CG, and introduce every character's origin in like, 120 minutes.

If they were to ever do a JLA movie (and I think that would be one insanely awesome action movie), they would REALLY benefit from doing it the way Marvel is doing it. Introduce the major players in their own movies and then have them show up in a Justice League movie, where they can introduce maybe one or two new characters (i.e. Martian Manhunter as I really don't think a movie about him would hold up, The Atom, Aquaman, etc. Basically any character that couldn't really sustain a good movie on their own).

Also, they really should not put any characters in here if they can't get the main movie's actors in it. What I mean is, if the next Batman movie is coming out and Christian Bale is Batman/Bruce Wayne, DON'T put Batman in the Justice League movie and have it be somebody else (which is what they'll have to do since Bale has said he doesn't want to do a team movie.).

[erechoveraker]

Justice League, and Avengers too, would never work in a movie. Warner's will never probably even get the JLA off the ground anyways, but I await with eager anticipation the glorious failure of this Avengers movie, it's my Pleasure Island: A Rock Fantasy. Oh it's gonna be soooo bad, I can't wait!

[dave from knoxville]

Coming in 2011, a comic hero the likes of which you have never seen (if you're under 40), a story so big it has to be shrunk down just to fit on the movie screen, Kevin Smith IS