10 Obscure Comic Book Titles That Deserve To Be Movies

7. Those Annoying Post Bros. - Matt Howarth

For those who prefer a lot of pointless and hilarious violence to their stories, Ron and Russ Post are two overpowered characters from a place called Bugtown where people - and even places - have a tendency to come back from the dead and shift through realities. In these books, low slapstick combines with high cerebral comedy and even philosophy because the stories tend to tackle concepts that weigh on humanity's mind by throwing them into stark relief. What motivates someone who can do everything into actually doing anything? Featuring an unlikely cast of characters, including Hiroshima the Nuclear Goddess, the incredible guitarist known primarily as Savage Henry, and Cthulhu (yes, that Cthulhu, although in this strip, he frequently wears loud ties) the stories carry with them a moral sensibility that would shock and appall if it wasn't handled with a sense of jadedness that transforms it into surreal absurdity. The major characters' ability to shift through realities at high speed put them in a weirdness level all their own, and the stories' tendencies to parody and satirise both genre and concept between flying bullets make these stories a perfect screen adaptation choice for the likes of Terry Gilliam. Some of the characters, at least in body, would have to be done with CGI, as would many of the sequences, like when characters shift to a reality where everything is underwater (and so everyone is a fish) but I could see Mark Maron having a ball as Ron Post and Christopher Eccleston would make a hilarious Russ Post. Why do they have different accents? Ron decided he didn't want his accent any more so he shifted into a body with a brain that didn't have one. He's crazy like that. No, really.