Many people who consume movies and series tend to relate comics only to superheroes and everything their kind of stories can tell. However, the ninth art is much richer in content and superpowers are but a small slice of the pie.
Although today the superhero genre began to erode the gold mine that comics represented for film and TV, it was one of the most important bastions of adaptations in recent years. And although Marvel and D.C. They get most of the stardom for this, there are other great adaptations too that jumped from the comic to the screen.
A classic to start. The Walking Dead It was one of the last events of cable television, prior to the before and after that meant the streaming. It is a franchise that managed to stand on its own and put the undead on the pop culture map in such a strong and disruptive way that to this day walks are organized with people dressed as zombies every year.
The work was created by Robert Kirkman and it was completed in 2019, although its legacy on television was so great that they created their own universe behind the franchise and today it has more than four series in development.
The Raven It is a fantastic cult film from the nineties. A couple who planned to get married on the eve of Halloween is murdered by a gang and Eric, its protagonist, mysteriously revives to exact revenge for both of them. A film that contains a very particular aesthetic with memorable scenes.
It is also known for being the last performance of Brandon Leethe son of Bruce Lee, who unfortunately died during filming due to a gun that was loaded by mistake. What many people don’t know is that this movie is based on the comic of the same name by James O’Barrreleased in 1989.
With the intention of breaking all the schemes of what popular culture (specifically in films and series) conceives as superheroes, the politically incorrect nature of The Boys caught the attention of audiences and not only made it a success but also one of the workhorses of the subscription service amazon.
The Boys works as a satire precisely towards Marvel and D.C. where the superheroes are employees of a megacorporation called Vought, which protects them and makes them unpunished for the injustices they commit. A group of stragglers gathers to try to dismantle this farce and confront it. homelander and his colleagues.
The best of both worlds: the insolence of The Boys with the entertainment offered by the most classic superhero series. Invincible follows the story of Mark Grayson, the son of the world’s greatest superhero. Based on blood and references, this series has a very particular narrative that managed to sneak into the best of recent years.
It is also found in Amazon Prime Video and has the particularity of being the work of Robert Kirkmanthe same mind behind The Walking Dead and many other projects related to entertainment with your company Skybound Entertainment.
There are authors in the world of comics who leave their mark deeply and manage to transcend. That is the case of Frank Miller. Wreaking havoc (for good) with the narrative of Daredevil first and batman Later, his work was so good that he allowed himself to make a name that is always interesting to read.
One of his most recognized works is 300, a narrative that takes us to Sparta and the Greek population. It had its adaptation to the cinema by the hand of Zack Snyder and starring Gerard Butlerin what was one of the pivotal films for both of their careers.
