Umbrella Academy: 10 Obscure Comic Books Netflix Should Adapt Next

Intimate, moving, subtle and sharp.

Legendary indy comic creator Craig Thompson's magnum opus Blankets is a deeply provocative graphic novel that may not be as fun, inventive or high-concept as some other entires on this list, but it is a truly important story that could make for one of Netflix's best should it be handled with the care and nuance that the book so carefully cultivates across its nearly-600 pages.

A touching story that recounts author Thompson's youth, his coming of age, his first love, and his painful divorce from the Christian faith that dominated his childhood, Blankets feels less like a diary with drawings and more like an illustrated journey through the life of a remarkably ordinary man.

It isn't the wildest story, nor it the most graphic, but Blankets is a tragically unknown comic book that paints pictures so vivid and so touching that an adaptation for the screen is hardly needed, and that is perhaps also exactly why it is.