To The Comic Book Store #117

Listening to a pair of young brothers discuss a variety of comic book characters today made the entire trip well worth the hassle of driving in a downpour and getting soaked walking across the parking lot. And here's just a few tidbits...

• Brother 1: "Deadpool is just really awesome."
• Brother 2: "which one is he?"
• Brother 1: "he's the blind guy"
• Brother 2: "no stupid the blind dude is Devil Dare" (pretty sure he meant Daredevil)
• Brother 1: "oh that's right, then Deadpool is just Wolverine in a red suit"

That discussion was followed by...

• Brother 2: "who the heck is that guy" (looking at a giant poster of Watchmen's Rorschach)
• Brother 1: "you know man that's the guy from that movie we watched a couple of years ago"
• Brother 2: "oh so he's a character from a movie"
• Brother 1: "yep it sucked too"
• Father: "you guys do know it was a graphic novel before a movie"
• Brother 1: "yeah sure dad, they made a comic book for that crap" (rolls eyes)

Kids, you gotta love 'em.

And now for this week's comics!

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-GJ

Graphic Novels To Big Screen

So are you tired of seeing graphic novels on the big screen? We sure as heck are. Over the past few years studios have been pumping them out as fast as they could, and there just doesn't seem to be an end in sight.

Films like 300, Sin City, The Spirit, and soon to be released Watchmen are just a few that have been released. The problem here is all the movies are almost identical to one another. They're all filmed with a generic style, and in most cases are shot in a grey scale. There is nothing pleasant about watching these movies.

Yes we know the graphic novels were superb, in fact we enjoyed the novels for 300 and the Watchmen, but as movies they are not the same.


Because everyone has to be so P.C. in today's world the novels have been greatly edited for content. If they were to be filmed as they were wrote they would be given an NC17 rating, which would cause the studios producing them to lose money because there audience was limited.

Though in retrospect children should not be going to see R rated movies, especially those of 300 and Sin City. But that's a parental issue we will keep out of.

Even with numerous complaints being sent to the studios to stop making these movies it doesn't appear that there will be an end to this trend any time soon.

We however will be saving our money and avoiding anymore of these films. - GJ