another hollywood bastardization...

[Col]

Uhm... hello? The Incredibles?

Boo-frickin'-yah! That's one of the best, by far.

Also, they've made movies of The Shadow and The Phantom.

EDIT: Mask of Zorro's a fun flick too.

Is the Phantom original? I know the Shadow was a radio serial . . .

The Phantom was originally a comic. In fact, it's got an adventure strip in the newspapers. I'm not sure when he first appeared, but he's been around for a long time.

Another movie that I completely forgot: The Mask. And I'm not counting that sorry excuse for a sequel. Blech.

[MixedMyth]

I am so giddy, I daresay I feel a swoon coming on...

" Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, co-creators of Image Comics' "Powers," have sold the feature rights to their comic book to Sony-based producer Mace Neufeld ("Clear and Present Danger")."

Edit: Even cooler? The thing's going to be directed by Frank Oz.

[Yeahduff]

I guess "Mystery Men" was a super hero movie.

Don't know if you're saying that it came from a comic book or not, but yeah, it did.

[MixedMyth]

Mystery Men did come from a comic book, I believe. Hey...that's another one to add to my 'to read' list.

Well, this isn't exactly a movie, but they seem to be making a video game of Bone.

[Psiogen]

The old Max Fleischer Superman shorts rule all.

[Sortelli]

The old Max Fleischer Superman shorts rule all.

I scored some in the 99 cent rack at Walmart. Stuff I'd seen as a kid, but man, they blew me away seeing them again in comparison to what we have now.

[MixedMyth]

I've been meaning to track those down and watch them, even though I don't care for Superman much in general. But since they're supposed to be so good, I'd really like to see 'em. Besides, it's what the style of the Batman animated series was based off of. Now THAT was my childhood cartoon. I recently got all three DVD sets, I liked it so much.

[Phact0rri]

Mystery Men did come from a comic book, I believe. Hey...that's another one to add to my 'to read' list.

Well, this isn't exactly a movie, but they seem to be making a video game of Bone.

Mystery Men came from Flaming Carrot.

[Nightgaunt]

The Incredibles was a little too much like fantastic four for me to consider it wholly original, but it was pretty good.

As for Phantom, yeah, that's reeeeeeally old comics. In fact, I'm kind of surprised someone knew that. Damn kids these days...

[McDuffies]

Uhm... hello? The Incredibles?

But of course... I just never counted them as an average superhero movie, so I got them out of sight.

[Yeahduff]

The Incredibles was a little too much like fantastic four for me to consider it wholly original, but it was pretty good.

Well, yeah, of course it stole a lot from existing superheroes. That was the point. It took the conventions of superhero comic books and applied a degree of real life logic to it (in a comedic way, as opposed to the infinitely depressing "Death Ray" route). The conventions were the platform for other stuff, not the thing itself.

[McDuffies]

Well the difference between superheros is not actually in their powers, it's in what director does with them. See, all Marvel heroes look desperately the same to me, they can have as different powers Stan Lee can think of, plots, characters, dilemmas, conversations are still always the same.

[[geoduck]]

The Incredibles was a little too much like fantastic four for me to consider it wholly original, but it was pretty good.

As for Phantom, yeah, that's reeeeeeally old comics. In fact, I'm kind of surprised someone knew that. Damn kids these days...

It may have been around for a long time, but some newspapers still carry it. So it's not like it's been dredged up from the depths of time.