Which comic book *should* be made into a movie?

[jducoeur]

It was occurring to me this morning, as I reflected on the rash of (mostly surprisingly good) comic-book movies coming out this summer, that there were some I've always wanted to see. And that seems like a good topic for a conversation.

So: what comic book(s) do *you* think would make a good movie? Feel free to assume that it's a competent adaptation, not a hatchet job, but assume that it has to fit into the usual constraints of a movie: about two hours, and has to be able to make enough money to be worth its budget. (If it doesn't require as many special-effects, it doesn't have to make as much money.) Obscure is fine -- some great blockbusters have been made from little-known comics.

I've got a couple of favorites, but I'll provide my own answers in comments, so as not to bias things too much upfront...

Comments

[gyzki.livejournal.com]

Strangers in Paradise occurred to me, too; but too much of what I like about it is in Moore's art--I'm not sure I'd trust it to live actors, no matter how good their intentions.

Failing that, the story where Flash and Spectre fight the German ghost pilots from WWI? And what was that DC comic from the '60s, with the WW2 tank fighting dinosaurs?

[jducoeur]

Failing that, the story where Flash and Spectre fight the German ghost pilots from WWI? And what was that DC comic from the '60s, with the WW2 tank fighting dinosaurs?

Don't think I know the first one at all. As for the second -- you mean The Haunted Tank? The one with the ghost of a Civil War general constantly kibitzing the folks in the tank? Fun stuff...

[gyzki.livejournal.com]

Haunted Tank, yeah that's the one! I think it was just begging to be made into a movie.

Correction: No, I'm thinking of "War That Time Forgot," which ran in Star-Spangled War Stories at about the same time as I was reading Haunted Tank, so they got conflated. But now that I've got that straightened out, I think Haunted Tank is the one that could make a cool movie.

And the Flash/Spectre was a single-issue Brave & the Bold team-up, in an age when B&B almost always meant Batman plus Somebody. Fighting ghostly WWI biplanes - also very cinematic, at least in my memory.