YouTube has tried to go beyond the self-creator video hosting site for a while, but now one of their projects is done. Variety is reporting that YouTube Originals, original shows funded for YouTube, is shutting down, with a few of their shows already picked up by larger networks. It’s still doing the hosting of Hollywood projects on demand ad supported and purchase, as well as YouTube TV but this is one project that didn’t go well for them I guess.
If you’re not going to get proper adaptations of comics that are cultural icons I shouldn’t be surprised when a webcomic turned movie gets things wrong. For example:
I finally stumbled on the trailer for Marry Me and while it might end up being a good movie, it has flaws adaptation wise. You didn’t know it was a comic? I did. I used to have the digital issues via WOWIO until they shut the site down while I was otherwise occupied with my first recovery and starting this site. I think I have some issues around here on some form of storage but I haven’t had the chance to look.
Marry Me is…well, was, a webcomic from maybe 2007? All I can find is info on the digital and physical collections and a hard to use page at Keenspot that I think goes through the whole comic but I didn’t have time to find out. This wouldn’t qualify it for Scanning My Collection anyway since while digital comics are allowed I have to either have them in a library on the site or my computer. I technically own that copy so it’s technically part of my collection. Since I don’t have the WOWIO comics on this computer and I’m not sure I have them on CD or floppy either (maybe as part of that clutter organizing project I’ll stumble on them) I do at least have access to the first issue thanks to comiXology, who has the whole series up for 99¢ an issue or $4.99 for a trade collection, and the first issue for free. All I had gotten from WOWIO was the first two or three issues so at least I recovered one of them. So let’s compare what’s in the actual comic to the trailer and see what the movie unnecessarily adds just from what we see there.
When she learned she’d be kissing Owen Wilson.
Marry Me #1
Blatant Comics/Keenspot I guess (2007ish, posted to comiXology October, 2010)
WRITER/CREATOR: Bobby Crosby, whose credit I don’t see in the trailer, Universal Pictures!
ARTIST: Remy “Eisu” Moktar
Now if comiXology can let me read the comic without constantly coming up with errors so I have to backtrack maybe I can review this thing. What’s with this site lately? Get your act together, Amazon!
So in other words, they’re doomed.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #11
Marvel/Paramount Comics (November, 1997)
“Four Funerals And A Wedding”
WRITERS: Andy Mangels & Michael Martin
PENCILER: Terry Pallot
INKER: Al Milgrom
COLORIST: Jason Wright
LETTERER: Chris Eliopoulos
EDITOR: Tim Tuohy
I will never escapes this quack, will I? Every time I think I don’t have to mention his name anymore, Fredric Wertham managed to get into the BBC’s rather questionable look at Superman since it seems to be as critical of Superman. I imagine I should go over this special in greater detail in the future. The article writer thinks its news that Freddy boy tries to paint Superman as Nazi propaganda (despite being created by two Jewish men a decade before Hitler began his crusade) but if you’ve been here long enough you’d know that this is just Wertham being Wertham.
Before you start yelling at me about “kids movie” or “hasn’t come out yet” please know this isn’t some angry rant. I’m not angry, just disappointed. The big problem is being a symptom of a larger issue. I’m not hating on a movie I haven’t seen or something not “made for me” (the hell it isn’t…I may not be the target age group, but I’m the guy watching Paw Patrol so you don’t decide what my tastes are), but I am seeing a huge mistake in something that will affect their brand history.
WarnerMedia and DC Entertainment never cease to amaze me with how little they care about their own properties. When I heard they wanted to make a Krypto the Superdog movie with all his superpet friends I was…at least curious. I may be too old for a kids movie but when has that stopped me? I watch what I like and while I’m not tightly linked to DC’s superpet history I did want to see what take they were going to make for it. I did grow up with Krypto in reruns of Filmation’s The New Adventures Of Superman as part of the flashback Superboy segments, from the days when they were the adventures of Superman as a teen. I did see modern stories that used Krypto and his animal friends. Seeing a new generation exposed to Krypto and the super animal buddies he was created alongside like Ace the Bathound was something I was looking forward to.
Then in my continued push through my YouTube backlog I came upon the trailer for DC League Of Super-Pets, a computer animated movie in which Krypto and friends have to save the Justice League from yet another Lex Luthor scheme. Sounds good…then I saw the other pets and had to ask…who are these guys?
“Can’t you just pay the parking ticket? You’re rich!”
Ultimate Marvel Team Up #4
Marvel Comics (July, 2001)
“Spider-Man & Iron Man” part 1
WRITER: Brian Michael Bendis
ARTIST: Mike Allred
COLORIST: JC (comics.org believes it’s June Chung)
LETTERER: Wes Abbot
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Brian Smith
EDITOR: Ralph Macchio
The battle between reality and believability continues to be a hassle for modern science fiction, but even fantasy is a victim of this cynical “reality” invading storytelling. Author James Harrington is a fantasy author and fan, so his commentary on the current invasion of his favorite genre is worth a read.
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
