8 Alternative Comics That Would Make Killer Movies/TV Shows

5. Wizzywig

Kevin "Boingthump" Phenicle is a normal kid: inquisitive, bright, and interested in how things work. Even as a small child, he can figure out the holes in any system, from swiping bus transfers to getting arcade games to work with a single quarter on a string. When he discovers home computing and the early internet, his life changes completely. Kevin goes from curious hobbyist to public enemy number one in the course of a few years, and the result is an epic morality tale of how straight society treats the people it doesn't understand. Wizzywig (as in WYSIWYG, or "what you see is what you get") is a hilarious, heartbreaking examination of a maligned, misunderstood subculture that, to this day, still hasn't gotten a fair shake. Hollywood has made some notoriously stupid hacker movies, and are as responsible for the public's misconceptions of them as the lazy news reports satirized in this comic. An independent film on the level of American Splendor (which would make perfect sense, seeing as Piskor once drew for that movie's subject, the great Harvey Pekar) could not only do the comic justice, but clear up a few misunderstandings about hackers in general.