9 Reasons 2016 Will Kill The Comic Book Movie Boom

8. There's Too Much Focus On Superheroes

There have been no fewer than 8 billion comic book movies released over the last ten years, and of those, 99.99999999 percent of them have been good old-fashioned superhero dramas. Sure, there were a couple of anti-heroes tossed into the mix, but one has to wonder if Hollywood (and casual fans) are sticking comic books into too small of a box. Because they can be about things and people that aren't superhuman. A History of Violence was a comic book movie; American Splendor was a comic book movie; Wristcutters: A Love Story was a comic book movie. There is literally a metric ton of comic book properties waiting to be developed into feature-length films, but so far the only ones anyone still cares about involve extraordinary humans in spandex. Which is too bad. The right non-superhero comic book would quell some audience fears about over-saturation with the same old group of heroes duking it out. (Remember that Kingsman: The Secret Service was also based on a comic book, and that proved to do pretty well at the box office, even if the film was hit-or-miss critically.)