# 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:** 4
**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 25, 2016, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/61 "2016-05-25T03:28:21Z")
> [@Hellestal](#): > > …because no one else could imitate his style? Curse your ability to understand what words mean! ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/62 "2016-05-25T04:12:27Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > Yummy\_Fur. yes. Zippy the Pinhead The Appletons (the B.K. Taylor ones) 2-minute batches of 10-second Max Cannon shorts “Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron” - Daniel Clowes. (featuring, of course, Tina) Maybe get David Lynch or Spike Jonze on this. Just about anything Drew Friedman does. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/63 "2016-05-25T07:40:48Z")
Bonus trivia question: Name every comic book-based movie that Chris Evans has been in.Fantastic Four TMNT Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer Push The Losers Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Captain America: The First Avenger The Avengers Snowpiercer Thor: The Dark World Captain America: The Winter Soldier Avengers: Age of Ultron Ant-Man Captain America: Civil War ---
**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 25, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/64 "2016-05-25T19:06:32Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Zippy the Pinhead I like this idea, but the main character would be continually spouting stream-of-consciousness ramblings that the audience may get sick of after 2 minutes. Maybe for a Trip Tank-type show. > [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > The Appletons (the B.K. Taylor ones) Ho ho ho! Is that the one from National Lampoon about a JR Bob Dobbs lookalike who cheerfully abuses his family? Again, Trip Tank. > [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Just about anything Drew Friedman does. I’m thinking his send-up of the Andy Griffith show where the cast reacts to an actual black person stopping for gas. Absolutely NO ONE would produce that. ---
**Author:** ![cormac262](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@cormac262](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cormac262)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/65 "2016-05-25T19:15:28Z")
“The Adventures of Barry Ween Boy Genius” ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/66 "2016-05-25T23:18:41Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Yeah, that one’s not going to make the PG-13 divide. Weapon Brown: Blockhead’s War would make an awesome movie, but it would have a hard time making it past the Rating Police **and** the Copyright Police. ---
**Author:** ![Chihuahua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@Chihuahua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chihuahua)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2016, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/67 "2016-05-26T00:13:40Z")
Has anyone asked for Metabarons yet? HBO would eat that up. Also, Xenozoic Tales. It already had a shitty cartoon adaptation at one point. I would think that the runaway success of Jurassic World would make this a no-brainer. Than again, Terra Nova had a similar premise and it bombed. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2016, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/68 "2016-05-26T00:26:15Z")
_Moonshadow_ ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/69 "2016-05-27T00:06:52Z")
Captain Marvel. The one that gets his powers from the wizard Shazam. I know there was a (really bad) live action version in the 70’s, and a cartoon in the 70’s or 80’s, but how about a big budget blockbuster version of the guy that used to outsell Superman? Just keep Zack Snyder the fuck away from it. ---
**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 27, 2016, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/70 "2016-05-27T00:17:52Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Captain Marvel. The one that gets his powers from the wizard Shazam. I know there was a (really bad) live action version in the 70’s, and a cartoon in the 70’s or 80’s, but how about a big budget blockbuster version of the guy that used to outsell Superman? Just keep Zack Snyder the fuck away from it. Isn’t that one already happening? Complete with Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam? ---
**Author:** ![Cartoonacy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/848f3c/32.png) [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/71 "2016-06-02T20:38:44Z")
[QUOTE=Eddie The Horrible] Zippy the Pinhead [/QUOTE] > [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I like this idea, but the main character would be continually spouting stream-of-consciousness ramblings that the audience may get sick of after 2 minutes. And, sadly, Robin Williams is no longer around to play the part. Jim Carrey, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/72 "2016-06-02T22:30:06Z")
[Booster Gold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booster_Gold) and the [Blue Beetle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kord) It’s time for a superhero buddy comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/73 "2016-06-03T00:40:09Z")
> [@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? I came in to post _Sandman_; but under the category of “totally deserves an adaptation/can’t imagine how anyone could even make it into a miniseries”. Although Starz and HBO have done a pretty good job of turning bloated mega-novels into series… However, I’m frankly surprised that _Death: The High Cost of Living_ hasn’t been turned into a movie, yet. Both that and _Death: The Time of Your Life_ could easily be done as stand-alones, with plenty of allusions and Easter eggs for the fanboys. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2016, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/74 "2016-06-03T00:47:25Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Captain Marvel. The one that gets his powers from the wizard Shazam. I know there was a (really bad) live action version in the 70’s, and a cartoon in the 70’s or 80’s, but how about a big budget blockbuster version of the guy that used to outsell Superman? Just keep Zack Snyder the fuck away from it. I’d love to see it, but the Big Red Cheese probably will get nitpicked to death, and all the fun would be removed by DC. ---
**Author:** ![Chihuahua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dec6dc/32.png) [@Chihuahua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chihuahua)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/75 "2016-06-03T15:11:06Z")
[QUOTE=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? [/QUOTE] Some news sites were saying that Gordon Levitt quit the movie back in March. Good for him. I would rather see no movie at all than a shitty movie. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/76 "2016-06-03T17:17:08Z")
One I wanted is being developed, the Micronauts. The other is Rom Spaceknight, if they keep the superheroes out. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/77 "2016-06-03T17:21:56Z")
[Cherry Poptart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_%28comics%29) ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/78 "2016-06-03T17:27:38Z")
Holy shitsnacks! I just realized Rom without super-heroes is [Critters!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090887/) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/79 "2016-06-03T17:29:36Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Captain Marvel. The one that gets his powers from the wizard Shazam. I know there was a (really bad) live action version in the 70’s, and a cartoon in the 70’s or 80’s, but how about a big budget blockbuster version of the guy that used to outsell Superman? Just keep Zack Snyder the fuck away from it. > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Isn’t that one already happening? Complete with Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam? Forget Black Adam. Dwayne Johnson should play the captain! ---
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423/80 "2016-06-03T17:55:24Z")
> **[Grimjack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimjack)** > > Grimjack is the main character of a comic book originally published by the American company First Comics. John Ostrander and Timothy Truman are credited as co-creators of the character, although Ostrander had been developing Grimjack with artist Lenin Delsol before Truman's arrival on the project according to Ostrander's own text piece in Grimjack #75. In that same essay, the writer also revealed having initially conceived the character to be the star of a series of prose stories, set in a post-a... Grimjack Grimjack Grimjack Though, I see it as more of a series. Each story starting in Munden’s Bar and each episode a new dimension (kind of like Sliders). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-books-that-deserve-adaptations/755423.md?page=5)