I never understood adaptation opposition, be it people who're anti-novelizations, against movies based on source material, comics using licensed characters. But, especially today, they've got to add something, to do something the other version doesn't or can't.

And, the best do. The Disney Snow White adaptation is awesome. It's a very pretty comic, and it's tonally different from the movie, without being counter or anything.

Barks' duck universe is simply superior to anything they've done with or around Donald in any other medium.

There was a Pride & Prejudice adaptation that looks good, but I haven't had a chance to read it.

I can't groove on the Parker comics, though. Part of it's that I'm just not a fan of Cooke's style and choices, but also, it just seems so safe, and I don't want to feel safe when reading (or watching, or whatever) Parker. The movies tend to do the same, nicen him up, make it a lot more consequence-lacking adventure.

There. That's my one big exception, to the point where I don't even think of it as an adaptation. (And it did feed back, in ways, into Ducktales.)

They were (some, anyway), back when Boom! still had the license. Darkwing Duck Classics, I think it was called.

I've read some Conan from different eras, a bunch of Simpsons and Futurama comics, and I bought a couple of Doctor Who omnibuses during the early stages of my following the show. That's it, though.

I'd like to read the Firefly comics, but I can't find anything other than The Shepherd's Tale so I'm holding out (surely in vain) for an omnibus. And despite never having seen Star Wars I've been mildly interested in checking out the comics.

I'm not anti-adaptations, it just seems the stuff that gets adapted doesn't appeal to me. That being said, if Warren Ellis started writing Fringe comics I would absolutely buy them.

Tenchi Muyo and Oh My Goddess are probably the only two I own a significant amount of. Tenchi I bought the comics because of the show, whereas Goddess comics got me watching the anime.

I wonder a long time about trying Topps X-Files comics but when they were popular they were outrageously expensive.

I have some Angel and Buffy I bought for my wife, and I've read one Angel mini and it was okay.

Otherwise I mostly don't buy them. There's one book I have on my amazon list I hinted at for a birthday gift of a story Charles Bukowski wrote for R Crumb's art. I guess that May kind of qualify though it's an original story itself and not been in another media.

Oh and the 90's X-Men/Star Trek crossover. That book splits my sides. I'm not sure if it's meant to or not, but it does. Great piece of literature.

Edit: How could I forget the Alien franchise. I have tons of Aliens comics and quite a few Predator. Most of the Aliens comics are pretty good. Especially the early ones. Salvation being probably the best Aliens comic written.

I was just to come back and say that the first Aluens vs Superman (Jurgens/Nowlan) is a great example of accentuating the strengths if each character. Both the strengths and the weaknesses of Superman made the character interesting me to (which doesn't happen often) that wouldn't have happened unless pitted against the Aliens. They may not be true complete other media adaptations but the portion that is can sometimes, as ing case, kindle interest in a character that before was of none.

I could see liking that crossover. They are both primal creatures with codes of honor and respect. I think the only Tarzan book I have was buying the first issue of a crossover with him, Catwoman and maybe someone else.

The crossovers, get ridiculous to me when they get to be meeting from more than two universes. I think I remember buying the first issue (and no more) of a Predator, Terminator and some other character crossover. It seemed a bit too much and really reaching to get the cash in the publisher's pockets.