10 Comic Book Creators Who Hate Comic Book Movies

By Rob Leane /

6. Martin Pasko

Writer and editor Martin Pasko worked extensively for DC Comics between 1975 and 1981. In more recent years, he helped shape the oft-acclaimed Batman: The Animated Series and its theatrically-released feature film spin-off, Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm. It€™s a bit of a surprise, then, that he hates comic book movies. He's got it in for Sin City, in particular. "The two media aren€™t the same,€ he wrote about comics and movies on ComicMix.com. €œEach has a grammar of its own," he believes, and by mixing them "you dilute the unique appeal of both.€ "The live-action stuff used to make me giggle,€ Pasko admitted. Now, though? Not so much. He's particularly nonplussed by the fact that "you can€™t figure out WTF is going on in any of these things unless you€™ve seen the previous five entries in the series." "I won€™t be too pissed off to fall asleep on it,€ he said of Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, which was on its way to cinemas at the time. "If Frank and Rodriguez light this one the same way they lighted the first one, I won€™t be able to see WTF is going on there, either, and won€™t have to care.€ Given the success of Mask Of The Phantasm, it's always been a bit of a mystery to me why Pasko didn't end up writing big live action superhero movies. Now we know why.