Category: Comics

10 Non-Superhero Comic Series That Would Make Great TV Shows

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Earlier this week, Carl Jansson at WhatCulture posted his choices for 10 Non-Superhero Comic Series That Would Make Great TV Shows.  Here are Carl’s Choices and my thoughts…

10. Drafted by Mark Powers and Chris Lie
My thoughts: This could work… but so much would depend on the budget for special effects. It wouldn’t be my first choice and it wasn’t Jansson’s either.

09. DMZ by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli
My thoughts: This series has run for years and with recent news events, is more relevant than ever.  I’d tune in.

08.  Queen & Country by Greg Rucka and various artists
My thoughts: This has a lot of potential.  My biggest worry would there be an audience for a British spy that wasn’t 007.

07.  Criminal Macabre by Steve Niles and various artists
My thoughts: If I had the power to get a show made, I’d be all over this one.  Steve Niles has created a world that would be fun to visit.

06.  100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso
My thoughts: This would be my first choice to bring to tv.  It’s a crime drama that has the potential to breakout on the level of The Sopranos.  Man, I wish someone would make this!

05.  Northlanders by Brian Wood and various artists
My thoughts: With the popularity of Game of Thrones and Vikings, this might be seen as an effort to cash in, and maybe it would be… but if it produces a great tv show, who cares?

04.  Chew by John Layman and Rob Guillory
My thoughts: I think the premise (“Tony Chu is Cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means he’s a hell of a detective, as long as he doesn’t mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit, and why.”)  would turn people off before they tried the first episode.

03.  Skinwalker by Nunzio DeFilippis & Christina Weir (writers) and Brian Hurtt & Arthur Dela Cruz (artists)
My thoughts: This one could work.  I’d tune in, but I wonder if this, like Chew, would turn people off before they even gave it a shot.

02.  Gotham Central by Various
My thoughts: I’d like to think this would work.  I just wonder if the viewing public would want Batman more than he’d be seen.

01.  Damage Control by Various
My thoughts: Do we really want a tv series about a group that has to clean up the mess left by battles between superheroes and villains?  Yeah, I didn’t think so either.

Jansson’s article got me thinking.  So this week, I’ll post my choices for non-superhero comics that should get a shot as a tv series.

New Orleans is a Werewolf Town!

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Victor Gischler and artist Juan Ferreyra have a new series coming from Dark Horse comics called Witch Hunt…

Witch Hunt is the story of Cassian Steele, the boss of the werewolf mafia in New Orleans, who needs to kill an old witch Verona before she exposes a secret that could ruin him. A bounty is put out on Verona’s head, and she is forced to run from werewolf mobsters, vampire maids, voodoo wizards, and zombie ninjas that are out to kill her. What they don’t realize is that Barnabus Black, a demon desperately trying to regain his halo, is her protection.

There’s a short interview at Bloody Disgusting with Victor Gischer that will give you some more intell.

This will definitely be a pre-order for me.

Hey!  I almost forgot to mention the cool Dave Johnson cover!

Fan Builds His Own Bat Cave

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I have to admit that after seeing this guy’s personal Bat Cave, the comic nerd in me came out and I thought, “Now THAT is cool.”

I especially liked the hidden door activated through the secret button on the Shakespeare bust. (Holy Adam West Batman!)

Has there every been a better fan-made Bat Cave?  If so, I’d love to see it.  (Oops.  The comic nerd is coming out again.)

Honey West & T.H.E. Cat Team for the 1st Time

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As I was going through the latest issue of Previews, I came across this solicitation:

  • Honey West & T.H.E. CAT #1 (of 2)
  • story: Trina Robbins
  • art: Silvestre Szilagyi
  • colors: Patrick J. Williams
  • cover: Valarie Jones
  • 32pgs, color, $3.99
  • Two cult TV icons heat it up together for the first time!
  • Ex-cat burglar and aerialist Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat is back for the first time in 45 years!
  • He puts his skills to good use as a professional bodyguard…primitive…and in love with danger!
  • Now he teams up with TV’s first lead-female private eye.
  • In “Death in the Desert”, 1960’s mob infested Las Vegas, they investigate a series of accidents…but will the attraction between the two cause the case to overheat?

Honey West was a female private eye that first appeared in a series of novels in the 1950’s.  In 1965, Anne Francis played Honey West in an ABC tv series that lasted just one season.  Although the show only lasted 30 episodes it became a cult classic.

Created by Harry Julian Fink (who also created Dirty Harry), T.H.E. Cat appeared in a 1966 tv series that ran for just one season on NBC.  Although T.H.E. Cat only lasted for 26 episodes, it also became a cult classic.

Now nearly 50 years later they are teamed for a 2 issue comic mini-series?  How cool is that?  The eight year old kid in me says, “Pretty dang-gone cool.”

I’ll be pre-ordering the series.  If it appeals to the kid (or adult) in you, then you know what to do.

 

Roger Ebert Had Jokes, er… Cartoons

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Roger Ebert, was one of the most popular movie reviewers of our time, the first film critic to win a Pulitzer prize, and a fan of cartoons.

Mr. Ebert was a regular contributor to The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption contest and had even won the contest on at least one occasion.  Robert Mankoff takes a look at some of Roger Ebert’s Final Cartoon Captions at The New Yorker.

The cartoon that is posted above features one of Ebert’s captions, but it wasn’t the one that got him the win (“I’m not going to say the word I’m thinking of.”) or even the one that I thought was the funniest (“Now watch how I lift my tray table to it’s original and upright position.”).  We’ll save those for folks that click over to the original New Yorker piece.

“R” is for Rocky by Mike Torrance

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Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd rocks his riff on a Rocky card that is part of a sequence/set that I think you’re going to like.

You can see more of Mike’s art at The Daily Sketch with The Krayola Kidd (and if you’ve never checked out Mike’s site, you ought to if only to see his Walking Dead cards!) and his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.