8 Alternative Comics That Would Make Killer Movies/TV Shows

4. Irredeemable

It could have been a What If... or Elseworlds title. Thankfully, Mark Waid went to Dynamite for his treatment of one of the oldest ideas in superhero comics: what if the hero becomes the villain? Irredeemable's answer is the Plutonian, a Superman surrogate who, after years as the world's savior, becomes its destroyer. The same energy and ideas that fueled Waid's Elseworlds masterpiece, Kingdom Come, are at play here. This time, though, Waid wasn't dealing with a billion-dollar property like Superman, even in an alternate universe. The result is a much purer story, untouchable by editors or publishers. It's also some of Waid's finest work, plus it has great art by Peter Krause, and Diego and Eduardo Barreto. It's a smart superhero comic that inverts everything that makes the genre great. The series, along with its companion piece Incorruptible, ended in 2012. If movies like Kickass have proven that a market exists for movies based on unfamiliar superheroes, then Irredeemable is a logical next step. Done right, a film version would be an epic series on the level of Lord of the Rings. The very concept €“ Superman turns evil €“ is practically an elevator pitch already. Besides, didn't Superman already kill a bunch of people in that last movie?