# Comic books that deserve adaptations **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423 "2016-05-23T00:22:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/41 "2016-05-24T00:03:57Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > You think [Gay Batman](http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/2/23407/2071964-midnighter.jpg)and his [villain-smooshing hubby](http://images.sequart.org/images/The-Authority-14-page-drunk-super-heroes.jpg) are? Wouldn’t that basically be _Batman v. Superman_ if Henry Cavill and Ben Affleck kissed? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/42 "2016-05-24T09:44:30Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > What spin-offs are there? I recall there was Smax (the artist Xander Cannon, who also did the inking on Top Ten, I think, hung out here on the SDMB for a while), and then that post-WW2 one where the Jetman figures how his place in the world, both in Neopolis and in his personal life. Are there others? There was a short story called “Deadfellas” in one of the ABC compilations about an vampire mob intergang rivalry. It’s not about any of the police officers (although they make an appearance IIRC); the central figure is a stenographer with the power of complete recall. Along with “Smax” and “The Forty-Niners” I think that’s it for side stories. > [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > **Girl Genius** –if Anime. No! Live action steampunk! If _Legends of Tomorrow_ can waste all that CGI on a stupid story, we can waste even more CGI on a good story. Opening nomination for Agatha: Natalie Dormer. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/43 "2016-05-24T10:39:36Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > Sergeant Rock of Easy Company. **YES!!!** Also: **The Haunted Tank** , commanded by Lt Jeb Stuart. An M3 that can blow up Tiger tanks with its 37mm cannon! **Johnny Cloud** , Navajo Ace. **Gunner, Sarge, and Pooch** , defending their eternal beachhead against the Japs’ nightly Banzai charges. **Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos** , the \*\*real \*\*Nick Fury! And last but definitely not least, **Magnus, Robot Fighter** , 4000 AD! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/44 "2016-05-24T10:47:11Z")
Sorry, forgot **Herbie Popnecker**! :smack: > **[Herbie Popnecker, the Fat Fury](https://herbiepopnecker.com/)** > > Site dedicated to popularizing Herbie comics, featuring Herbie Popnecker as the most powerful being you will ever meet. Sometimes appearing as the Fat Fury, he fights for good, justice, and keeping his dad out of trouble. \*\*Sugar and Spike \*\*as originally written (as babies): > **[Sugar and Spike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_and_Spike)** > > Sugar and Spike is an American comic book series published by DC Comics from 1956 through 1971, named after its main protagonists. The series was created, written, and drawn by Sheldon Mayer. > The series was launched in 1956 along with another Sheldon Mayer creation The Three Mouseketeers. The Sugar & Spike series had 98 issues published in the United States through 1971, when due to Mayer's failing eyesight that limited his drawing ability, the series was canceled. Later, after cataract surge... ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/45 "2016-05-24T10:54:42Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > There was a short story called “Deadfellas” in one of the ABC compilations about an vampire mob intergang rivalry. It’s not about any of the police officers (although they make an appearance IIRC); the central figure is a stenographer with the power of complete recall. Along with “Smax” and “The Forty-Niners” I think that’s it for side stories. > > No! Live action steampunk! If _Legends of Tomorrow_ can waste all that CGI on a stupid story, we can waste even more CGI on a good story. > > Opening nomination for Agatha: Natalie Dormer. Cool. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/46 "2016-05-24T10:56:27Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Totally agree about Alan Moore’s **Top Ten** - pretty much my favorite comic. I enjoy **Astro City** , but it doesn’t have the same _Hill St. Blues_ humor that Top Ten does. Until I read the series, I didn’t know Moore was apparently the biggest Hill St. Blues fan around. > > What spin-offs are there? I recall there was Smax (the artist Xander Cannon, who also did the inking on Top Ten, I think, hung out here on the SDMB for a while), and then that post-WW2 one where the Jetman figures how his place in the world, both in Neopolis and in his personal life. Are there others? This thread had inspired me to take a look and apparently there are five issues of Top Ten Season 2 by a different creative team that have never been collected as a Trade as best as I can tell. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/47 "2016-05-24T11:06:01Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > This thread had inspired me to take a look and apparently there are five issues of Top Ten Season 2 by a different creative team that have never been collected as a Trade as best as I can tell. Hmm - man, the stuff that is out there. Thanks for checking! Is there a link to a place that sums them up best? And the general sense of the non-Moore quality? ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/48 "2016-05-24T11:31:04Z")
[The Unwritten](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unwritten), by Mike Carey and peter Gross is absolutely amazing. It’s the story of a slacker whose father wrote a highly successful series of books about a boy wizard based on him, and he resents all the fans mistaking him for the character- until he discovers that everything is less fictional than he thought. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/49 "2016-05-24T12:29:22Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > **YES!!!** > > Also: > > **The Haunted Tank** , commanded by Lt Jeb Stuart. An M3 that can blow up Tiger tanks with its 37mm cannon! > > **Johnny Cloud** , Navajo Ace. > > **Gunner, Sarge, and Pooch** , defending their eternal beachhead against the Japs’ nightly Banzai charges. > > **Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos** , the \*\*real \*\*Nick Fury! **The Unknown Soldier** , fighting on the home front, and on the front lines, and behind enemy lines; he’ll go anywhere, he’ll be anyone; he’s a pilot, he’s a tank commander, he’s a scuba-diving explosives expert; he’s infiltrating the SS as an SS officer, he’s bodyguarding FDR as FDR; he’s all things to all people, so that by all possible means he can be the right man in the right place at the right time. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/50 "2016-05-24T12:46:38Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I know that Joseph Gordon Levitt currently owns the rights to Neil Gaiman’s _Sandman_ but I haven’t heard anything more. Does anybody know if it’s in development or in limbo? JGL had creative differences and left the project, so back to limbo it went. Ditto Love & Rockets and Cowboy Wally, particularly his time as a late-night talk show host, including the Wally Beer ads. Also, David Lapham’s [Stray Bullets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stray_Bullets). That series was so disturbing because it was so true. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/51 "2016-05-24T13:08:28Z")
> [@Sir\_Prize](#): > > I think [ZOT!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zot!)would make a great movie or TV series, live or animated. You may already know, but if you like _ZOT!_ you might like McCloud’s _[The Sculptor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sculptor_(comics))_ - which Sony has already bought the rights for. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/52 "2016-05-24T13:15:10Z")
Second Transmetropolitan – my favorite comic of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/53 "2016-05-24T13:47:47Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Hmm - man, the stuff that is out there. Thanks for checking! Is there a link to a place that sums them up best? And the general sense of the non-Moore quality? Only a few sentences on the Top Ten Wikipedia [page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_10_(comics)#Season_Two). Some one else mentioned Unwritten. What could be interesting is if the adaptation for Unwritten was focused on stories told in movies the way that the Comic was focused on stories told in print. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/54 "2016-05-24T14:23:37Z")
Oy - Wikipedia - duh. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Wednesday\_Evening](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Wednesday\_Evening](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wednesday_Evening)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/55 "2016-05-24T17:11:42Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > [Elfquest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfquest) - The grandmother of cinematic alternative comics YES. I have been waiting for a movie version of Elfquest since the creators first went into talks with movie studios back in the late 80s. More recently there was a screenplay written and I think even a director assigned to the project, but the deal ultimately fell apart. The creators are unwilling to give up creative control (and rightfully so I think) so unless the movie-making climate changes it’s looking like there will never be an Elfquest movie. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/56 "2016-05-24T18:33:29Z")
I’d love to see [the Heckler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_(comics)). But it’d probably be too weird for most people to understand. [Ambush Bug](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambush_Bug) would be fun, too. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/57 "2016-05-24T18:47:21Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > **Girl Genius** –if Anime. If you’re going to be adapt Girl Genius, why wouldn’t you do it in Foglio’s inimitable style? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/58 "2016-05-24T22:34:45Z")
I would love to see a [PS238](http://ps238.nodwick.com/comic/12072006/)TV series. Actual child superheroes–not teens, children. And not just a parody, like Powerpuff Girls. And it’s a paper comic that moved online when it was canceled, so it still fits the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/59 "2016-05-25T00:58:49Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > That reminds me of Matt Wagner’s other major series, _[Mage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mage_(comics))_, which I think would make a great movie or TV miniseries. > > The problem, of course, is that the final part of the trilogy still hasn’t been released. > > On the plus side, the threatened Zack Snyder version was never made. Zach Snyder…who’s unable to do do anything but sepia-toned grim and gritty? Doing _MAGE_?!?! Holy fuck, did we ever dodge a bullet. ---
**Author:** ![Hellestal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hellestal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hellestal)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/60 "2016-05-25T02:30:03Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > If you’re going to be adapt Girl Genius, why wouldn’t you do it in Foglio’s inimitable style? …because no one else could imitate his style? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423.md?page=4)