10 Image Comics That Would Make Great Movies (And How To Make Them)

10. Paper Girls

Neon. Synthesizer soundtracks. Practical gore effects. Small town American thrillers.

All of the above have burst back into the pop-culture zeitgeist, as filmmakers who grew up on Spielberg and John Carpenter are now making movies of their own. Paper Girls contains all of these elements, and more. Although it could easily be described as 'Stranger Things with the feminist parts turned up to 11', Paper Girls is more than just another bandwagon-jumper.

The Eisner Award winning series follows, aptly, a group of newspaper delivery girls, who come into contact with a mysterious, futuristic force, while delivering papers on Halloween, 1998. Yet another smash-hit from Saga and Y: The Last Man writer Brian K. Vaughan, it's a gripping, sharply written book full of shocking twists and turns - dark, yet still brimming with vibrant flashes of colour. As such, Paper Girls would make for a perfect sci-fi B-movie homage.

Since the book is already a masterclass in design, a film adaptation would need to enlist the services of someone with a similarly keen eye for such a quintessentially 80s aesthetic. Adam Wingard has already proved he's a dab hand with this sort of thing - his 2013 movie The Guest was a tight, nail-biter of a thriller, and its gloomy, neon-tinged aesthetic and synth score wouldn't seem out of place in a Paper Girls movie.

Failing that, It Follows director David Robert Mitchell would also be a suitable helmsman, since his slow-burning chiller is visually and tonally similar to Vaughan's book.