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

[jducoeur]

Well, "Superheroes you've never heard of" is clearly no barrier -- the success of Hellboy proves that. The comic isn't especially well-known now, and was downright obscure when the first movie came out, but they've been broadly quite successful...

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

Good point. After all, someone even greenlit "Birds of Prey". For what that was worth %^). But in Kingdom Come, all of Our Heroes are old, so they risk alienating their core demographic, which is, I suspect, somewhat younger than myself (59 yo boomer).

[jducoeur]

True, although there are enough Young'n'Sexy heroes in the story to provide the necessary eye-candy.

I do agree that it would be a hard sell, and I don't know that it's possible to make it into enough of a blockbuster to be worth the SFX budget. But it's interesting to contemplate...