Just when we thought the caped crusader’s TV time was done, we get…Batman: Caped Crusader. It’s a return to animation for Batman and the return of Bruce Timm. That should be a good sign except this is the guy who added in Batgirl and Batman hooking up because he has a weird obsession with them dating, and let’s not forget how people who weren’t me got excited for Russell T. Davies returning to Doctor Who and what we ended up with. He also brought J.J. Abrams, who started the decline of Disney Star Wars, and Matt Reeves, who had his own take on Batman I don’t really care for.
Still, a teaser for the Amazon Prime series was dropped that claimed it was the new intro for the new show. Intros are a dying art, so it’s nice to see the new Batman brought it along, which means I have a new entry in this series. Admittedly it looks pretty cool. Too bad it’s attached to this show.
Please Save Webcomics From Hollywood
A recent article from Variety may sound like good news for webcomics as they’re finally getting noticed by the bigger media as sources of adaptation. That means in theory there will be more exposure for your comic and more money coming in for the rights to the comic being adapted into a movie.
In theory.
Considering what modern Hollywood has done to mainline comics, video games, nostalgic properties, and even world history, are we really sure we want this era’s Hollywood anywhere near a new thing to mess up? Even before the current nonsense you had directors slapping someone else’s names onto a script with little connection to the source material and telling the Hollywood suits it’s totally accurate, knowing they won’t check. We talked about this last week. Bad adaptations have been going on since the 1940s Captain America serials at least.
Now, as if they have run out of other properties to ruin, the lazy sods want to steal webcomic ideas, and probably twist them to their preferences. They like the plot, but rather than take time to create new characters they hope to get a short boost for opening weekend (the period movie studios care about most because it looks better to investors or something) from a popular webcomic’s readership. If you think they’re going to care, I have some bad news. If they can’t properly adapt the bigger name cultural icons of comics, especially at Marvel Studios where they don’t want you to have even read a comic book you’re adapting, what makes you think your favorite webcomic, something even more obscure than Iron Man and Black Panther before they got movies, is going to come out of this unscathed? Read on and heed my warnings, fellow webcomic makers.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on July 30, 2024 in Animation Spotlight, Comic Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Television Spotlight, webcomics and tagged adaptation, commentary, Hollywood versus comics, web comics, webcomic to movie adaptation, webcomics.
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