{"id":12457,"date":"2008-04-28T13:29:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T20:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/04\/28\/comics-and-the-movies.html"},"modified":"2008-04-28T13:29:36","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T20:29:36","slug":"comics_and_the_movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/28\/comics_and_the_movies.html","title":{"rendered":"Comics and the movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5006797\/stop-adapting-the-wrong-comics\">Movies: Stop Adapting The Wrong Comics<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some suggested comics to adapt. I&#8217;ve read some of these &#8212; and <em>Thunderbolts <\/em>is (conceptually, stripped of its Marvel history) a great idea. <em>1602<\/em>, though, is only suitable for comics geeks, as wonderful a volume as it is.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_15679_5-upcoming-comic-book-movies-that-must-be-stopped.html\">5 Upcoming Comic Book Movies That Must Be Stopped | Cracked.com<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The writer has a nice turn of phrase at times (and a grotesque one at others), and some of what he says is good (I simply do not see how a <em>Sub-Mariner <\/em>movie could work, largely because Namor is best as a supporting character). On the other hand, there are some serious holes in the author&#8217;s comic book knowledge and history, enough to render his overall judgment more than a bit dubious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movies: Stop Adapting The Wrong Comics&nbsp; Some suggested comics to adapt. I&#8217;ve read some of these &#8212; and Thunderbolts is (conceptually, stripped of its Marvel history) a great idea. 1602,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-comics","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39073,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/06\/adapting-comics-to-tv.html","url_meta":{"origin":12457,"position":0},"title":"Adapting comics to TV","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-Oct-13 10:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"'Ultimately, then, the answer to what do we want does boil down to fidelity, but in a general sense rather than a specific one. 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