don wiskerando, everybody! he'll be appearing at carolines this tuesday!
where'n the sam hell have YOU been!? YOU'RE the invisibles!
re: the grant morrison lawsuit scenario -- WB is a powerful, powerful, powerful super conglomorate. internal fighting would have been very bad for them (wb movie vs wb comic book), public relations wise.
re: from hell. never seen the movie. never read the book before the movie. but, i've heard and read a lot of commentary on how it was both an incredible movie AND an incredible take-off from the book.
lemme pose this question:
should comic book movies be based on comic books? should they either be forced to correspond with the books, or forced to take things in new directions? (i.e; like what the x-men movie did, reshaping continuity and ages and focuses -- taking basics from the books, but then doin what they want). its sorta like an "ultimate marvel" line, just on film and not on paper.
while i think thats a better way to go -- it really doesnt help the comic BOOK industry, at all (again, i.e; the x-men movie, which did zero for sales across the board in comic book land -- namely because even if fans of the movie wanted to follow up in a book, they couldnt, cuz no book resembled their movie).
spider-man, at least it is hoped, will help out the industry in a much bigger way, specifically (of course) spidey titles, as marvel is making a concerted effort to capitalize of its success -- having (even forcing) their comics to reflect scenes, characters (etc) from the movies.
wb/dc has done that with the 89 batman movie, but more specifically with the cartoons -- using the audience of 3+ million (per show) to make changes to their audience of 300,000 (per book... a GOOD book). adding characters like lock-up, harley quinn, redoing freeze's story (etc).
