Best Batman movie Comic Adaption

[dude stannis]

Batman '89 had tremendous art. Begins wasn't bad either.

 

[frodawgg]

i recently reread the B89 adaption for the first time in about a decade and a half and, while it does have amazing art, it feels too rushed. they omitted a few scenes and they condensed the rest. they would fit a ten minute scene on one page with like four panels.

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

The bad thing about comic adaptations nowadays is that they condense them into 48 or 64 pages, the old Star Wars adaps had at least close to 100 pages, except for Jedi.

 

[dude stannis]

Land of the Dead has an incredible adaptation, I urge you guys to check it out.

 

[The Shredder]

The Batman 1989 one by far.

Thru the years, I have always bought the adaptations of each and every Batman flick as they made their debut, but I didnt even bother with the Begins adaptation as I found it to be horrid, despite the film itself being my fav out of all the Batman movies to date.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

They're not really for reading, IMO. I don't see how one could take any real enjoyment out of reading them, it's just to remind you of the film. It's just a novelty souvenir really.

 

[KenK]

I will say this of some adaptations, it's nice when some of them included scenes that don't appear in the film. I loved the adaptation to The Mask, where they show a character who lived in the film, get thrown into a printing press, as was originally written in the screenplay. It would have made for a hilarious moment in the film to see a newspaper detailing her death printed out in her own blood! Now that's comedy!

 

[dude stannis]

They're not really for reading, IMO. I don't see how one could take any real enjoyment out of reading them, it's just to remind you of the film. It's just a novelty souvenir really.

I'd rather they reprinted the films main comic inspiration, with your typical GN extras plus, interviews with those involved in the film.

Examples: God Loves, Man Kills with sketches and the like as well as interview with Singer Dougherty, Harris, Ian McKellen...

Batman: Blind Justice, with interview from Nolan, Goyer, Bale...

Whatever Happend To The Man of Tomorrow: Singer, Dougherty, Harris, Routh...

 

[Mr. Socko]

I have read them all. I do know that they put the original 4 together in a set called "Batman: The Movies". I never owned it but do remember reading it a long time ago. They were all fun. Then I read the BB adaptation in 2005 and it was absolutely horrible. The drawings were decent, but the writing was terrible. And it was only like 60 pages long.

 

[Dr.Omega]

i was looking for a download link to a torrent for all the adaptions and came upon this thread..do you think there will be one for TDK?

 

[Kevin Roegele]

i was looking for a download link to a torrent for all the adaptions and came upon this thread..do you think there will be one for TDK?

As far as I know, there is no Dark Knight comic adaption, only a novelisation.

The Forever adaption does have a great cover....

 

[darkseid26]

miss read question and voted for begins, but damn that batman '89 looks sick, i want it.

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

Batman '89 definitely wins this one... for the art if nothing else... the rest kinda suck.

Although this one is a personal favorite...

 

[Dr.Omega]

can someone post a link to batman 89?

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Batman '89 definitely wins this one... for the art if nothing else... the rest kinda suck.

Although this one is a personal favorite...

Wonderful cover...should be on the DVD.

The status of that comic ties your head in knots though....it's a comic, based on a movie, based on a cartoon, based on a comic.

 

[Dave McFly]

Wonderful cover...should be on the DVD.

The status of that comic ties your head in knots though....it's a comic, based on a movie, based on a cartoon, based on a comic.

a mini version of it (small in size but page for page the same as the big one) came in the VHS version of Batman MOTP when it was first released in 94.

 

[Dr.Omega]

I will say this of some adaptations, it's nice when some of them included scenes that don't appear in the film. I loved the adaptation to The Mask, where they show a character who lived in the film, get thrown into a printing press, as was originally written in the screenplay. It would have made for a hilarious moment in the film to see a newspaper detailing her death printed out in her own blood! Now that's comedy!

I actually remember seeing that in the theatre as well as that "do you have the time?" scene

but yeah is it still possible for someone to upload returns and 89?

 

[Jochimus]

In terms of the live-action Batman movies, B'89 has the best comic-book adaptation; Ordway was really able to walk the fine line between semi-accurate likenesses and genuine comic-book-style action.

In terms of comic-book adaptations OVERALL, my favorite is still Marvel's original adaptation for A New Hope, followed closely by the same for Empire. The ANH adaptation was spread over six issues' length with a very different art style on each issue, but they were all so good at conveying the story that it all held together. The ESB adaptation was the same artist throughout (since by that point SW was an ongoing), but it still worked very well, IMO.

Another early Marvel movie adaptation I like (back in the day Marvel always seemed to do better adaptations, or at least trippier ones - DC's have mostly been too static for my tastes) is Perez' work on "Logan's Run". Again, the art is really out there in comparison to the movie, but it works so well for the story that that doesn't really matter to me.

 

[AndrewGilkison]

I used to be able to find the tpb of the collected movie adaptions on Amazon, but now I can't. Is it out of print?

 

[justinianus]

The B89 is the best.
The thing with Batman comic adaptations is that they are some of the best I have seen, they look as a proper "movie one-shot" and the artists actually tried to capture the likeness of the stars and the supporting actors. I have seen several Marvel movie adaptations (like the Terminator 2 or Hulk 2003) where the characters have a more generic comic book look and not that of the actor playing them.
The prestige editions all had excellent cover artwork (even the B & R one)
As for writing - nothing to write home about, all I look for in comic adaptations of movies is the artwork.

 

[TruerToTheCore]

B89 adaption is the best, but I hate that they didn't try to fix the flaws of the movie version.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

I love the 89 adaption the best, I have all of them, and that one takes the cake for me!

 

[theMan-Bat]

Well, the Batman Returns adaption is my personal favorite. I really like the art by Steve Erwin:

 

[Dr.Omega]

Well, the Batman Returns adaption is my personal favorite. I really like the art by Steve Erwin:

that looks awesome, ive got to find Batman: the movies