Best Comic Book Movies Not About Superheroes

[Detective Conan]

What's your favorite comic book based film that doesn't fall within the superhero genre?

Here's a few from the top of my head.

Men In Black

History Of Violence

The Mask.

Hoping others will have more suggestions.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Sin City always comes to mind.

 

[Mandon Knight]

Useful article to assist the debate....

The 25 Best Non-Superhero Comic Book Movies - IGN - Page 2

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Sin City, definitely. What about The Crow, is that classed as a superhero movie?

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

I am a big fan of a Stardust, even though I think it mostly flopped. A great successor to The Princess Bride.

 

[Manasrepublic]

Glass mainly because they drown the hero in a pool of watery mud like a *****... bold choice... divisive, subversive.. automatically makes for great storytelling

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

300

The Crow

Sin City

A History Of Violence

Road To Perdition

30 Days Of Night

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

I forgot 30 Days of Night. That's a fantastic movie.

 

[Detective Conan]

I am a big fan of a Stardust, even though I think it mostly flopped. A great successor to The Princess Bride.

Wasn't Stardust a novel instead of a comic? Or is there another one I'm not aware of?

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Wasn't Stardust a novel instead of a comic? Or is there another one I'm not aware of?

Indeed. I think it's because of Gaiman that we confuse the it as being comic book based. Charles Vess did plates for the book but I don't know if that qualifies as a graphic novel.

 

[psylockolussus]

Wanted

Stardust

Kingsman

 

[HarryCanyon1981]

Riki-Oh The Story of Ricky.
Sin City.
300.
Heavy Metal.
Road to Perdition.
History of Violence.
Kingsman.
Akira.
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind aka Warriors of the Wind.
Scott Pilgrem.
Oldboy (2003).
Tales from the Crypt the movie.
Vault of Horror.
Tales from the Crypt Demon Knight.
Men in Black.
Red 1 and 2.
The Losers.
Persopolis.
Adventures of TinTin.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Yeah always forget about Men In Black's origin.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Indeed. I think it's because of Gaiman that we confuse the it as being comic book based. Charles Vess did plates for the book but I don't know if that qualifies as a graphic novel.

Technically speaking, it was a four issue run published by DC/Vertigo. You will find it on comic websites and DC's own website, listed as a graphic novel. While it doesn't fit the typical comic book format, who am I to argue with the general consensus and what the book's own publisher calls it?

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Technically speaking, it was a four issue run published by DC/Vertigo. You will find it on comic websites and DC's own website, listed as a graphic novel. While it doesn't fit the typical comic book format, who am I to argue with the general consensus and what the book's own publisher calls it?

I wasn't aware it was something done by DC at some point. But it was a prose novel first though, right?

 

[Lily Adler]

Men In Black, Kingsman, and Adventures of Tin Tin. I have not seen Scott Pilgrim yet.

 

[Mandon Knight]

I hated Scott Pilgrim, I mean resolutely detested it, with a level of hate reserved for the most horrible of things.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

I wasn't aware it was something done by DC at some point. But it was a prose novel first though, right?

The original comic issues were released monthly in 1997 as how it was original conceived. It was collected into a single volume in 1998. The traditional novel came out in 1999.

 

[The Joker]

Really like Road to Perdition and Sin City.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

1. Road to Perdition
2. Rurouni Kenshin (all three live action ones)
3. Dredd (he's a cop, not a super powered character)
4. Judge Dredd (And I don't feel guilty one bit about this)
5. Snow Piercer
6. Adventures of TinTin
7. Men in Black

By the way, the Mask should count as a superhero movie, cause he's like Hulk.

 

[Lily Adler]

I forgot Dredd! It's a guilty pleasure. The seashells, the Taco Bell, the Sandra Bullock bob.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I forgot Dredd! It's a guilty pleasure. The seashells, the Taco Bell, the Sandra Bullock bob.

 

[Brother Jack]

The perennially underrated Road to Perdition.

 

[HarryCanyon1981]

Yeah always forget about Men In Black's origin.

It started as an obscure Malibu comic

 

[The_Manhunter]

300 is mine