any news,details or preview art from "the Dark Knight" comic adaptation?

[ABongHalloween]

its always fun to grab one of these things to relive the movie while you wait for the dvd release

 

[BubbaGump]

There was a prologue comic that came with the Bluray Begins gift set, but no news so far for a TDK adaptation. I don't even think they're releasing one which is really a shame.

 

[Cain]

Nah not really a shame when you consider that Batman movie comic adaptations usually suck royally, novelizations is where it's at. No big loss at all.

 

[TruerToTheCore]

It's better that way.

 

[Drizzle]

Nah not really a shame when you consider that Batman movie comic adaptations usually suck royally, novelizations is where it's at. No big loss at all.

The first four Batman movie adaptations looked great. Yes, even "Batman and Robin".

 

[BubbaGump]

Nah not really a shame when you consider that Batman movie comic adaptations usually suck royally, novelizations is where it's at. No big loss at all.

The B89 adaptation was great. And the comic adaptations are still pretty fun. Just because they sucked royally in the past (BB comes to mind) doesn't mean they have to be.

The problem lies in the artists trying to copy the look of the actors perfectly that it just comes out looking terrible and showing a shallow range of emotion. If the adaptations took a more stylistic turn (nothing drastic, just a simplification of the movie's look--i.e the Gushers TDK comics) these adapatations would be of higher quality.

Yes, the comic adaptations are just washed down from comics to film to comics again, but it would be interesting to see Christopher Nolan's universe in comics form once again--but done correctly. The essence of Batman is in the comics and an adaptation in that medium is appropriate.

 

[ABleedingCorpse]

I adore the movie adaptations. Denny O' Neal (?, spell check?) is a great editor/writer for the comic conterparts. I have every Batman movie comic from Batman to Begins, both versions of each comic. I love those books. The art work is fantasic. I wish a lot more comics were drawn more realisticly human/life like instead of just a drawning/cartoonish figure.

If there is no TDK comic adaptation, that's gonna royaly f'up my collection.

 

[Jochimus]

The problem lies in the artists trying to copy the look of the actors perfectly that it just comes out looking terrible and showing a shallow range of emotion. If the adaptations took a more stylistic turn (nothing drastic, just a simplification of the movie's look--i.e the Gushers TDK comics) these adapatations would be of higher quality.

I agree. The artists usually seem to get so hung up on capturing likenesses and details that they never seem to inject any other creativity and life into it, so what you're left with are static drawings of scenes from the films.

One of my favorite movie-to-comic adaptations of all time, for example, is Marvel's original adaptation of Star Wars: A New Hope. Granted, there were several different artists working over the course of those first five or six issues covering the film, but each one brought a different flavor to each issue that worked to convey the FEELING of that specific part of the film, enabling the entire adaptation to show a range of talent and yet be able to work as a whole in adapting the story.

That, plus many earlier movie adaptations are always fun to read because the artists worked from either not-quite-final drafts of the script, or final shooting scripts that got revised along the shoot, and you get to catch things that ALMOST made it into the finished film; the aforementioned SW adaptation features 'lost' scenes like the entire Luke/Biggs exchange on Tattooine in the early part of the film, and even a bipedal seven-foot-tall marsupial-looking Jabba the Hutt.

In fact, IMO many of Marvel's movie adaptations from the '70s and '80s are great because of their preference for more stylish renderings of the comic-book norm: Star Wars, Logan's Run (drawn by George Perez, no less), even the old Masters Of The Universe movie (in which the Marvel artists simply drew the established MOTU characters the way they looked in the cartoon). DC's adaptations, on the other hand, have always seemed kind of bland to me, often preferring detail and likeness accuracy to mood or drama: the Star Trek adaptations, the last two Reeve Superman films. Batman '89 IS a notable exception because of Ordway, IMO, who was able to meld detail with drama.

 

[Nepenthes]

I agree. The artists usually seem to get so hung up on capturing likenesses and details that they never seem to inject any other creativity and life into it, so what you're left with are static drawings of scenes from the films.

One of my favorite movie-to-comic adaptations of all time, for example, is Marvel's original adaptation of Star Wars: A New Hope. Granted, there were several different artists working over the course of those first five or six issues covering the film, but each one brought a different flavor to each issue that worked to convey the FEELING of that specific part of the film, enabling the entire adaptation to show a range of talent and yet be able to work as a whole in adapting the story.

That, plus many earlier movie adaptations are always fun to read because the artists worked from either not-quite-final drafts of the script, or final shooting scripts that got revised along the shoot, and you get to catch things that ALMOST made it into the finished film; the aforementioned SW adaptation features 'lost' scenes like the entire Luke/Biggs exchange on Tattooine in the early part of the film, and even a bipedal seven-foot-tall marsupial-looking Jabba the Hutt.

In fact, IMO many of Marvel's movie adaptations from the '70s and '80s are great because of their preference for more stylish renderings of the comic-book norm: Star Wars, Logan's Run (drawn by George Perez, no less), even the old Masters Of The Universe movie (in which the Marvel artists simply drew the established MOTU characters the way they looked in the cartoon). DC's adaptations, on the other hand, have always seemed kind of bland to me, often preferring detail and likeness accuracy to mood or drama: the Star Trek adaptations, the last two Reeve Superman films. Batman '89 IS a notable exception because of Ordway, IMO, who was able to meld detail with drama.

these adoptions sound interesting I might try to check them out. thanks


I'd pick up a TDK adaption for sure. more importantly i think alot of new readers would as well, which is kinda the point isn't it. That said I'm glad the Joker: Dark Knight and Two-Face Year One seem to be aimed at the movie base. they seem like interesting and easily accessible projects. And there comes a point where too many movie tie-ins would only be cannibalizing the market for new readers. and I'd rather they come into something entirely new actually.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

Previews doesn't list anything coming up for an adaptation, and even Marvel stopped doing the adaptations with X-Men 3, Spider-Man 3, Fantastic Four 2, Incredible Hulk and Iron Man.