| Hephaestos said: I never really had comic books... bought a few once, liked them but I took standalone books, so they were short too. Euro comics... I have all Asterix and all TinTins, but that is the only two I really folowed... always wanted to get the smurfs but never did. I've always been into manga though (In france had them in the early 90ies, first in japanese, then translated), considering a serie like dragon ball has 42 books and i followed up to 20 series at one point, I guess I have a lot of them. Back to comics... I did do a bit of catching up when the x-men movies started comming out... Dled the whole think up to 2005 and read it.. took a while :p Also started spiderman but I don't think I finished it. One thing I hate though... there's more than one author, the stories are revisited by different ones and they change things.... Definitely not newcommer friendly...
On a side not though... with all these rewrites of the superheroes stories, one can better understand the liberty that hollywood usually takes when they do a movie... and change the story it's based on.... it's cultural and for them it's natural (for me it's sacrilege most often and I think the worst ever is Disney's Hercules......I almost puked... and the drawins were damn ugly) |
First of all, Disney's Hercules was good. Even if they did change stuff it fitted with the situation and how Disney wanted to make it work for their audience.
In comics no stories are changed as such but things are 'retconed' to fit. Brubakers recent revival of a joke story line in the 3rd Summers brother is proof of this but it's one that the 'joke' bit stood out, we didn't want it and for the most part, X-men fans didn't take to the character. I am also tired of writers labeling Xavier as some kind of bastard when he has done more for mutants and people on Earth then what a few misplaced decisions can undo, he's more heroic then Stabberine.
Interpretations of a given subject, what many movies have done though is change the foundation of characters, Spider-man never had natural web shooters, his development of his mecahnical ones were to show his intelligence and scientific mind, removing them was a decharacterisation.
Storm has never been portrayed as a moody cow like she was in X-men 2, as the character may have angry lashes of power but is reserved because she knows she must keep her emotions in check because her powers are effect the world just by her emotions.
Asterix was cool though, loved it, haven't picked up any in the 2000s though.
Hmm, pie.
