10 Non-Superhero Comic-Book Movies That Must Happen
Who needs powers and spandex?
Comic books have never been as mainstream as they are today, thanks mainly to the huge success of Marvel and DC's live-action adaptations. Still, it's been a long, bumpy road to reach this point. For some years, the quality of comic-book movies were hit and miss: just compare Blade or Spider-Man 2 with Batman & Robin or Shaquille O'Neal's Steel. Now, multiplexes are jam-packed with faithful adaptations of comic book characters. Take a look around your local cinema over the next few months, and you'll see Captain America, Iron Man, Batman, Superman, and even Wonder Woman. However, as wonderful as this is, the casual filmgoer deserves the chance to discover the vast diversity of superhero-free material in today's comic-book industry. While the big two companies focus heavily on cape-wrapped heroics, publishers like Image Comics, Boom! Studios, IDW, Dynamite, Dark Horse Comics and more all have a fantastic portfolio of work. Science-fiction, fantasy, and horror feature in abundance, with hundreds of fantastic superhero-less titles available. Many of these feature concepts that would work wonders on the screen, and would almost certainly be a breath of fresh air for those in need of something different. Books like From Hell, Road to Perdition, and Judge Dredd have all been adapted with varying degrees of success, but there's still masses of potential out there just waiting to be tapped.