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75 Comics That Are Being Made Into Films
brumgrunt writes "The comic book is the new spec script in Hollywood, if this list is anything to go by. Den Of Geek has uncovered 75 comics that are in the process of being turned into films, along with their estimated year of arrival. It's scary, brilliant and bizarre in roughly equal measure."
maybe they can have a comic about a guy who goes around girding loins.
Uh huh. Right-o. So, you're into spandex, capes, and little pointed booties I guess.
Well, don't mind me. I won't judge you. You could be a Hello Kitty collector for all I care. You're still wrong about your basic principles, which are simplistic at best.
To put a finer point on it, it takes a SPECIAL kind of stupid to think that two things containing pictures must be the same. Let me guess: based on your amazing ability to pronounce vaguely similar things identical, you must think Monterey Jack is the same thing as limburgher, right? I sure hope you don't do the shopping in YOUR house.
All kidding aside, the two genres are DIFFERENT whether you, in your spandex-driven guilt, admit it or not. See, here's what I find so ironic.
You claim that I'm trying to assuage my guilt by saying that there is a different genre called "graphic novels". But I don't actually HAVE any guilt, because my interests aren't embarrassing. Graphic novels are generally written for adults. They generally don't contain any simplistic, idiotic nonsense like grown men in funny costumes with magical powers flying through the sky. The last graphic novel I read was about a murder mystery in Antarctica, solved by a U.S. Marshall with nary a pointy boot or cape in sight. And unlike the spandex nonsense you find in comic books, it was actually an enjoyable read. Before that I read one about a historical family of murderers living in Kansas in the 1800's. Again, no pointy boots or spandex. NOT. EMBARRASSING.
You, on the other hand, like to read what have always essentially been children's books. You pretend there's no difference STRICTLY because MY point of view lessens the impact of YOUR assertion that it's "OK" for a grown man to read children's books about superheroes in spandex, capes, and pointy boots. Deep down, you're afraid people will think you're developmentally disabled, so you pretend that the "men in tights" thing is OK for adults, and so on. But honestly, I'd love to see you try to explain that line of reasoning on a date with a grown woman. Really. It would be very enlightening for all three of us.
To wrap this up, YOU are the one who is covering your insecurities, my friend. By pretending that all graphical media are "comic books" and pretending that there are no distinctions between genres, you attempt to conflate the idiotic with the interesting, in hopes of hiding the fact that what you read is, basically, idiotic and meant for children.
Thank you for playing. Insert another quarter and try again.