> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:46 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Comic Book Movies > > Hellblazer started off with a minor character in Swamp Thing that > basically > was teaching him about himself/conning him across the country. It was > later > when the character's appeal was seen and was loaded into it's own series. > Best idea that DC had. Launched the Vertigo line.
Okay - I knew that (I've actually got a complete run of "Swamp Thing" and "Hellblazer".... and, actually, pretty much all the original Vertigo Titles). I wasn't too up on the original "sting-like" Constantine... it was only in his own book, when we started to see some of his vulnerability and decay that the character really took off for me. The vertigo line is really what pulled me from my rather strict dedication to import Manga and indies at the time. Marvel tried to duplicate it with "Epic" which was just poorly supported (but had some good books). > a really poor substitute for the Dangerous Habits storyline (one of the > drop > dead best storylines there was for the character) and fails miserably. It True. I've recently gotten into a slump and stopped reading for about a year (around the time the baby came) so right now I've re-reading HellBlazer from the beginning. It truly is excellent storytelling. I also loved the "Little Death in the Night" story - only one issue, but so nice. (When it comes right down to it I think almost all of my favorite comic stories are single setting stories... just two characters talking. Lois and Clark on top of Mt. Fugi, Lenny and Kathy talking about Shade, etc. ) > tries to add in stuff from other issues and arcs and fails in that. I can > shoot spoilers all day but bottom line is, it's a poor farce. Keanu just > compounds the poor script. If it was a fantastic script than maybe he > would work better, but.... Well... I guess that I won't bother paying for it at the theater. ;^) > True. Carrey without the good mask script would have been a normal carrey > overacting stinker. Instead it was a script that capitalized on his > ability > and limitations and made a great showing. Well - I guess with "Son of the Mask" we'll get a chance to see how it might have been with a bad script and bad acting. ;^) > > It looks like somebody, at least, has actually talked about an "Aquaman" > > movie. ;^) (It also claims that "Fantastic Four" is "the longest > running > > comic book series in history"... I didn't think it was... am I crazy?) > Officially somewhere over 500 issues. But then again, Jerry Lewis had a > comic for over 100 as did Jimmy Olsen. Long runs don't really mean all > that > much. I agree that long runs don't equal good stories, but I'm still curious. Both "Action Comics" and "Detective Comics" are well over 800 issues and "Batman" and "Adventures of Superman" are both over 600. For that matter I thought that the Gladstone "Disney Stories" books have been running at least 600 issues. How long has "Archie" been running - I thought at least 500 issues? I just didn't know if they weren't included due to some break in the chronological run or if they really meant F4 was the longest running Marvel Comic (which I believe since they killed the regular "Thor" book it is). By my count F4 is fifth or sixth longest running title at the very highest... Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:145410 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
