Click to viewWe used to love Frank Miller , before his comics work turned into schlocky ego - pasquinade . But even in his prime , Frank would n’t be our first choice to manoeuvre a semi - major Hollywood moving-picture show , so we ’re distressing that Miller ’s getting his shot at the brass section band with The Spirit . We can remember of ten comedian Almighty off the top of our oral sex who would do a better job of helm a pic than Frank , and here they are .
Paul Pope ( writer / creative person )
What he ’s famous for : His works wander from the scifi title THB to the manga - esque Supertrouble to the future - Batman epic Batman : Year 100 . He ’s also done comics for Toonami ’s website .
What we ’d like to see : Pope ’s visual storytelling stylus is un - paralleled , but he ’s also a super - imaginative writer . His Batman is both more vulnerable , and more resourceful , than most of the topnotch - lucky versions in funnies or film . But we ’d really care to see Pope do a motion-picture show version of a scifi heroic poem like THB , the story of a teenaged girl on Mars , and her superpowered escort , who ’s a small caoutchouc ball until you add body of water . ( Then he turns into a huge superintendent - guy . )
Mike Allred ( writer / creative person )
What he ’s famous for : Mostly , Allred isknownfor his series Madman , the chronicle of Frank Einstein , a Frankenstein ’s monster - esque superhero , and his friends . Madmen is one of 100 project that Robert Rodriguez is supposed to be turning into a flick . His early serial , Graphik Musik , is well deserving hunting down for storylines such as G - Men From Hell , now a cult indie movie . He also did a rock ‘ n ’ roll scifi tale Red Rocket 7 , and teamed up with Peter Milligan on the fantastic post - forward-looking ten - Men spinoff X - Statix .
What we ’d care to see : Allred should wrest the Madman movie back from Robert Rodriguez , and do his own take on the brilliantly colored undead superhero plot line . After seeing Spy Kids , I ’m certain Rodriguez could do a fun reading , but I desire to see Allred ’s own unhinged visual modality on the big concealment . And if Allred wanted to have Milligan help him with the book , after their incredible colllaboration on the X - Statix comics , that would be fine with us .
Chris Ware ( writer / artist )
What he ’s famed for : He canalize old - previous - old - schooling comic strip masters like Winsor McKay ( Little Nemo ) in comedian like Jimmy Corrigan or Quimby the Mouse . He also does a serial of flight strip about a case yell the Super - Man , who is like a mess up up version of Superman with receding hair and a domino masquerade , who sometimes falls to his destruction and sometimes endure around killing masses and wreaking havoc .
What we ’d like to see : Give Allred a Michel Gondry - sized budget and let him make a unearthly off - beat film with a bitter twist .
Darwyn Cooke ( writer / creative person )
What he ’s famous for : He helped super - author Ed Brubaker vamp Catwoman in 2001 , with a fresh look that combined the uninfected lines of Batman : The Animated Series ( which Cooke worked on ) with a gloomy noir sensibility . Then he went on to reinvent the rootage of DC Comics ’ silver long time reference with the miniseries DC : The New Frontier , which became a unmediated - to - DVD reanimate movie . in conclusion , he team up up with Jeph Loeb to do a Batman / Spirit minseries , and then spell and penciled a Spirit series for a year .
What we ’d like to see : Scrap Miller ’s The Spirit and give us Cooke ’s on the big sieve instead . I do n’t even care if Miller ’s done filming . Just include Miller ’s version as an duplicate on the videodisk of Cooke ’s version . Cooke ’s series nailed what Miller ’s movie looks like it ’ll miss out on : the playfulness and vividness of Will Eisner ’s original comics . And Cooke find ways to bring the Spirit into the 21st one C without lose what was cool about the character in the beginning .
Grant Morrison ( writer )
What he ’s famous for : God , where do we commence ? Umm , okay . He ’s that rare comics author who can dip our brains in battery-acid with Vertigo series like The Invisibles or Seaguy , or take us on a wide - screen superhero adventure with JLA or New X - Men – and both stories are every bit great . Superhero comics are prosperous to have a number of peachy writers decently now , let in Brubaker , Brian Bendis , Mark Waid , Geoff Johns and Kurt Busiek . But none of them have Morrison ’s versatility and reach . His pictorial novel We3 , which is the big precious - beast comic and the swell cyborg comic ever , is reckon to become a movie at some point .
What we ’d like to see : I ’m torn . Part of me want to see Uncle Grant tackle a big zoomy superhero conflict story along the cable of his JLA arc like Rock Of Ages . Part of me desire to see him do a more quirky , uncanny indy labor like his Bollywood epical Vimanarama . Ideally , I ’d care both , or a fusion of the two : a big activeness motion picture with a unearthly odyssey into disturbed - land midway through . ( Oh , and just in cause someone is going to lay claim writers should n’t direct movies , I ’ll just say two word : Joss Whedon . )
Gail Simone ( writer )
What she ’s renowned for : Simone went from being one of the comics industry ’s unswerving critics ( with the “ Women In Refrigerators ” website ) to one of its lift adept author , with cartoon strip like Birds Of Prey and Wonder Woman . Her original serial , like retired - superhero saga Welcome To Tranquility , are also well worth go over out for their quirky graphic symbol like the Emoticon , a supervillain with a masquerade party that discover his emotion . But her crowning achievement may well be Villains United / Secret Six , the saga of a group of supervillains who are just trying to get ahead and avoid getting smushed by other supervillains .
What we ’d like to see : A Secret Six movie , no head . A PG-13 epos with gunplay , betrayals , twists , and supervillain - on - supervillain sex .
Evan Dorkin ( writer / artist )
What he ’s famous for : He ’s in all likelihood most famous for creating Milk And Cheese , the “ dairy farm product gone tough ” who look so cool on a T - shirt ( and are a tad boring on the comics page , sorry . ) But his good work is elsewhere , admit the Dork anthology and its “ Eltingville Science Fiction Club ” stories , which got made into a Cartoon internet buffer . Just watch this . We ’ll wait for you :
He also worked on the quicken Superman serial along with his longtime cooperator Sarah Dyer , produced a surprisingly brilliant comic about superhero Mad - Dog to bind in with Bob Newhart ’s suddenly - lived Bob sitcom , and made a bunch of Bill And Ted comics that were better than the 2d movie and spinoff TV serial .
What we ’d care to see : Give Dorkin ( and maybe Dyer ) a huge budget and just let them go crazy . dedicate that he surpass at little short gags in Dork , a big - covert Dorkin picture show would probably have lots and lots of eldritch little funny bits that scantily connect to anything else , and then there would be moments of surprising ruth … followed by someone ’s eye getting stabbed out . Fun !
Carla Speed McNeil
What she ’s illustrious for : She writes and draws the ongoing science fabrication adventure series Finder , which deal with issues of identity and authenticity in a far - future Earth . My favorite plot line is “ Dream Sequence , ” about a weird semi - brainsick bozo whose mind forms the central processing unit for a super - popular virtual realness environment , and all the mass who want a piece of him .
What we ’d like to see : A big - screen interpretation of Finder , directed by McNeil .
Mike Baron and Steve Rude ( writer and creative person )
What they ’re notable for : Okay , I ’m get a bit honest-to-god - schoolhouse here , but this is a scientific discipline fiction site , and it would be remiss to leave out Baron and the Dude . They co - create Nexus , a science fictional superhero comic about a guy who has nightmare about very forged masses whom he must assassinate . as luck would have it ( ? ) the weird animate being that gave Nexus the incubus also gave him the big businessman to kill those defective people , and make the dreams halt . But the real stars of Nexus are the huge population Baron and Rude created , admit suffer graphic symbol like the hardy Judah The Hammer and the slippery pol Vooper . The comic recently had its 100th issue .
What we ’d like to see : The very first Nexus trade soft-cover book would make a grotesque film , introducing the main character Horatio Hellpop and his space - faring adventures , including his other relationship with Sundra Peale .
Mike Mignola ( author / creative person )
What he ’s famed for : Mignola ’s most famed piece of work , Hellboy , has already been sour into two film directed by the superb Guillermo Del Toro , with Mignola ’s amour . He ’s make a whole world of Hellboy spinoffs , including BPRD and Lobster Johnson . He ’s also done tons of work on other strip , and create the top-notch - pop one guess The Amazing Screw - On Head .
What we ’d like to see : Maybe Mignola could organize Hellboy 3 himself ? That would get around his late concerns that Del Toro will kill off his hero in ways that could make further comic - book risky venture feel spare . And even though we do it Del Toro ’s optical style , we ’d love to see how Mignola ’s own twisted eye would translate to motion picture . Also , Screw - On Head was made into an recreate pilot by the Sci Fi Channel , but what about live - action at law version ?
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