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Post by mikelmidnight on Mar 23, 2024 12:00:40 GMT -5
I'm surprised, especially after the death of Christopher with the estate being handled by younger generations that no comics set in Middle Earth have been made. There was the one adaptation of the Hobbit by Dixon and Wentzel in the 90s by Eclipse that has essentially been kept in print as a trade since the LOTR movies were released, and the one attempt at a photocomic using stills from the Bakshi animated movie done by Warren, but no proper adaptations of Frodo, Aragorn and such, and no tales told form other ages of Middle Earth. There was a comic adaptation of the Bakshi cartoon, published in Europe but never translated into English. LotR ComicAnother that I am surprised we haven't seen more of is Kim Newman. His Anno Dracula got a comic tie-in, from Titan; but, his Diogenes Club stories are perfect for a comic book series, not to mention the Drearcliff Grange stories or his in-world fictional character, Dr Shade...or his Derek Leech character.....or The Angels of Musick......or his Moriarty and Col Sebastian Moran consulting criminal stories (mirror pastiches of Sherlock Holmes, using his enemies)...or...you get the idea. He is an old friend of Neil Gaiman, which makes it all the more surprising, as he references comics, as well as movies, tv and literature (high and low) in his works. Would have been perfect for Vertigo. I've for years wanted to see a Dr Shade comic. Not only is he Newman's most prominent superhero-type character (there are many others who are alluded to or receive cameos), but there are several different versions and even generations of characters who have borne the name; you could practically craft an anthology series, with different eras and versions all being done in different styles. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 25, 2024 18:16:15 GMT -5
Max Headroom/20 Minutes Into The Future
William Gibson of Neuromancer fame worked at IDW a while ago doing a comic and I would have been curious to see how he would have adapted such a story
Hell, I'd even settle for a reboot of the series on TV!
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 25, 2024 20:36:32 GMT -5
Max Headroom/20 Minutes Into The Future William Gibson of Neuromancer fame worked at IDW a while ago doing a comic and I would have been curious to see how he would have adapted such a story Hell, I'd even settle for a reboot of the series on TV! I could swear I recall someone like Comico or Now advertise something for Max Headroom; but I don't see any actual published material. Might have just been an advertisement. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 25, 2024 20:39:14 GMT -5
Max Headroom/20 Minutes Into The Future William Gibson of Neuromancer fame worked at IDW a while ago doing a comic and I would have been curious to see how he would have adapted such a story Hell, I'd even settle for a reboot of the series on TV! I could swear I recall someone like Comico or Now advertise something for Max Headroom; but I don't see any actual published material. Might have just been an advertisement. quick google fu... In 1987, Comico announced a thirty-two page Max Headroom 3-D comic, written by Mike Baron and illustrated by Arnold and Jacob Pander but the issue was never published. -M |
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 25, 2024 22:20:22 GMT -5
I could swear I recall someone like Comico or Now advertise something for Max Headroom; but I don't see any actual published material. Might have just been an advertisement. quick google fu... In 1987, Comico announced a thirty-two page Max Headroom 3-D comic, written by Mike Baron and illustrated by Arnold and Jacob Pander but the issue was never published. -M Ah ha! The Leetle Grey Cells are not completely deteriorated, n'est-ce pas? |
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Post by berkley on Mar 25, 2024 23:48:54 GMT -5
quick google fu... In 1987, Comico announced a thirty-two page Max Headroom 3-D comic, written by Mike Baron and illustrated by Arnold and Jacob Pander but the issue was never published. -M Ah ha! The Leetle Grey Cells are not completely deteriorated, n'est-ce pas?
Speaking of whom, has Poirot or any other Agatha Christie character ever been adapted to comics?
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Mar 26, 2024 0:14:31 GMT -5
Ah ha! The Leetle Grey Cells are not completely deteriorated, n'est-ce pas? Speaking of whom, has Poirot or any other Agatha Christie character ever been adapted to comics?
There are 9 Poirot GN published by Paquet beginning in 2017. They are in French and I am not sure if they're available in English translation or in the North American market. In the US market Harper Collins has done a GN adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express published in 2023. They had previously published Five Little Pigs in 2010, Murder in Mesopotamia in 2008 and handful of others. (Mystery of the Blue Train '07, Big Four '07, Hallowe'en Party '08, Dumb Witness '10, Dead Man's Folly '12, Murder on the Links '12, Cards on the Table '10, a different version of Orient Express in '07, Death on the Nile '07, Murder of Roger Ackroyd '07) I can track down the exact issues, but Poirot has also been parodied in both Mad and Cracked. There have been other adaptations done as part of mystery comics anthologies, in other foreign editions, etc. So yes, quite a bit, just not by publishers whose main distribution is the American direct market. -M |
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 26, 2024 2:58:44 GMT -5
Speaking of whom, has Poirot or any other Agatha Christie character ever been adapted to comics?
There are 9 Poirot GN published by Paquet beginning in 2017. They are in French and I am not sure if they're available in English translation or in the North American market. In the US market Harper Collins has done a GN adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express published in 2023. They had previously published Five Little Pigs in 2010, Murder in Mesopotamia in 2008 and handful of others. (Mystery of the Blue Train '07, Big Four '07, Hallowe'en Party '08, Dumb Witness '10, Dead Man's Folly '12, Murder on the Links '12, Cards on the Table '10, a different version of Orient Express in '07, Death on the Nile '07, Murder of Roger Ackroyd '07) I can track down the exact issues, but Poirot has also been parodied in both Mad and Cracked. There have been other adaptations done as part of mystery comics anthologies, in other foreign editions, etc. So yes, quite a bit, just not by publishers whose main distribution is the American direct market. -M Some of the covers of the various adaptions, below.
Paquet has done 9 Poirots, 2 Miss Marples and a few others. Then there were 5 adaptions in the 90s by Frank Leclercq.
In the 2000s publisher Emmanuel Proust, reprinted those 5 (I believe they reprinted all) and also published about 20 other Agatha Christie adaptions. Some of which had been translated to English by Harper Collins.
And Dellcourt one-shot 7 Detectives and it's spin-off Detectives had Miss Crumble and Ernest Patisson which both were basically tributes to Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 26, 2024 10:24:56 GMT -5
Someone needs to adapt Xavier Maumejean's story, from the Tales of the Shadowmen anthology, where Poirot is pitted against Jeeves, in a battle between the Leetle Grey Cells and the Magnificent Brain, at the home of Betie Wooster's Aunt Dahlia.
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Post by berkley on Mar 26, 2024 13:41:23 GMT -5
There are 9 Poirot GN published by Paquet beginning in 2017. They are in French and I am not sure if they're available in English translation or in the North American market. In the US market Harper Collins has done a GN adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express published in 2023. They had previously published Five Little Pigs in 2010, Murder in Mesopotamia in 2008 and handful of others. (Mystery of the Blue Train '07, Big Four '07, Hallowe'en Party '08, Dumb Witness '10, Dead Man's Folly '12, Murder on the Links '12, Cards on the Table '10, a different version of Orient Express in '07, Death on the Nile '07, Murder of Roger Ackroyd '07) I can track down the exact issues, but Poirot has also been parodied in both Mad and Cracked. There have been other adaptations done as part of mystery comics anthologies, in other foreign editions, etc. So yes, quite a bit, just not by publishers whose main distribution is the American direct market. -M Some of the covers of the various adaptions, below.
Paquet has done 9 Poirots, 2 Miss Marples and a few others. Then there were 5 adaptions in the 90s by Frank Leclercq.
In the 2000s publisher Emmanuel Proust, reprinted those 5 (I believe they reprinted all) and also published about 20 other Agatha Christie adaptions. Some of which had been translated to English by Harper Collins.
And Dellcourt one-shot 7 Detectives and it's spin-off Detectives had Miss Crumble and Ernest Patisson which both were basically tributes to Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.
Nice looking covers on some of those, might have to check them out. A lot would depend on the interior artwork, for me.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Mar 26, 2024 15:23:28 GMT -5
Speaking of whom, has Poirot or any other Agatha Christie character ever been adapted to comics?
There are 9 Poirot GN published by Paquet beginning in 2017. They are in French and I am not sure if they're available in English translation or in the North American market. In the US market Harper Collins has done a GN adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express published in 2023. They had previously published Five Little Pigs in 2010, Murder in Mesopotamia in 2008 and handful of others. (Mystery of the Blue Train '07, Big Four '07, Hallowe'en Party '08, Dumb Witness '10, Dead Man's Folly '12, Murder on the Links '12, Cards on the Table '10, a different version of Orient Express in '07, Death on the Nile '07, Murder of Roger Ackroyd '07) I can track down the exact issues, but Poirot has also been parodied in both Mad and Cracked. There have been other adaptations done as part of mystery comics anthologies, in other foreign editions, etc. So yes, quite a bit, just not by publishers whose main distribution is the American direct market. -M I love the Poirot stories, I'll have to look for those! |
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 26, 2024 16:16:02 GMT -5
Some of the covers of the various adaptions, below. Paquet has done 9 Poirots, 2 Miss Marples and a few others. Then there were 5 adaptions in the 90s by Frank Leclercq.
In the 2000s publisher Emmanuel Proust, reprinted those 5 (I believe they reprinted all) and also published about 20 other Agatha Christie adaptions. Some of which had been translated to English by Harper Collins. And Dellcourt one-shot 7 Detectives and it's spin-off Detectives had Miss Crumble and Ernest Patisson which both were basically tributes to Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.
Nice looking covers on some of those, might have to check them out. A lot would depend on the interior artwork, for me.
It's a very mixed bunch of artists, between them we have like 25 artists on maybe a total of 40 issues, some of them I really don't like, some of them acquired tastes and some of them are pretty good. And most of them I don't know at all. Upside is that it's very rare over here to have different cover artists from the interior art and for most of them you can find easily some interior sampples on these titles. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 26, 2024 21:16:20 GMT -5
I've always thought that a comics line featuring popular childrens' book characters like Curious George, Madeleine, The Berenstain Bears, and the like with the right creatives and a good marketing plan could do very well... or has someone already done it and I missed it?
Cei-U!
I summon a severely overlooked demographic!
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 26, 2024 21:32:45 GMT -5
I've always thought that a comics line featuring popular childrens' book characters like Curious George, Madeleine, The Berenstain Bears, and the like with the right creatives and a good marketing plan could do very well... or has someone already done it and I missed it? Cei-U! I summon a severely overlooked demographic! Curious George and The Bears had multiple mini-picture books that might as well be comics, beyond. Still, original the original set of books. The Berenstain Bears, especially, had volumes devoted to childhood emotional issues and ethical subjects. Still, original comics would have been cool, too. Beverly Cleary's Ramona and some of her other characters and books would be well suited to that. Along those lines, this was my favorite picture book, as a child......  The King With Six Friends, by Jay Williams and Imero Gobbato. The story features a wandering prince, who had lost his kingdom to an usurper and wanders around. In his travels he meets six unique individuals and helps them out of a predicament, and they swear their loyalty to him and join him on his adventures. One turned into a serpent, one a swarm of bears, one an elephant, one into fire, one into an axe, and one into a tree. Together, they travel to a kingdowm, where an aging king, with no sons, searches for a prince to marry his daughter and rule his kingdom. The prince sees the princess and is attracted and offers himself, but, the king decides to set him a series of challenges, to prove he can hold the kingdom, given the circumstances of his own land. The king knew the prince's father and feels friendly too him, but must be sure. Each of the six friends uses his talent to solve one of the challenges, then they fight off the king's guards, as a group. In the end, he wins the hand of the princess and the kingdom. Later, at the celebration feast, the senechal asks one of the friends what the prince did, since they all performed the individual tasks. The friend replies, "He led us," as he directed their actions and created strategies to use their particular talents. It would make for a great series of adventures...sort of a fantasy Justice League. Gobbato's art was gorgeous, too. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Apr 4, 2024 13:33:54 GMT -5
I wouldn't say I'm surprised it never was a continuing comic, but I think Edgar Rice Burroughs' Beyond Thirty would have made a dynamite series. It's about a possible future in which America remained isolated while the Euro-asiatic continent was ravaged by a terrible war that essentially put an end to civilization there. An American explorer eventually travels to the ravaged old world and adventure ensues.
In those dystopian future stories, I'm always fascinated by what new civilizations might have emerged and how a renewed nature might have changed the landscape. It's like having a box of toys containing we know not what, and pulling out one nifty new thing after another.
(The Mucker would also have been darn cool, although I think there's at least one online comic series about the character).
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