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A History of Violence and Road To Perdition were two of the ones I was thinking of. Also American Splendor, Ghost World, some others I probably can't think of right now.
The most recent would be Red.
I suppose Scott Pilgrim, 30 Days of Night, and even 300 aren't really great example of not being "extraordinarily-set" since they have their supernatural elements, but they're also not really superhero comics either.

I'm sure others are in development, or that I've completely overlooked.
I really wish they'd make Maus. It would probably be computer animated a la Pixar, but it might also be interesting to see it made in the style of Fantastic Mr. Fox

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Just looked to see if there were any plans to make this into a film. They just recently announced there are

I completely forgot about The Adventures of TinTin movies. They should be incredible given who's involved

Preacher will never get made into a movie or series. Not unless it's made outside of the US. There would be riots over that shit.

I Am Legend was a graphic novel first, IIRC.

No it was just a regular novel by Richard Matheson. Great book. I wish any of the movies were as good

Lois as Isis:

http://static.tvguide.com/MediaBin/C...mallville1.jpg

One trick Smallville likes to do is have characters possessed by other characters in the DCU to put them on the show with essentially zero production expense. It continues with Lois being possessed by Isis, who plans to do bad things to our heroes.

She may or may not be a direct adaption of 52's Isis, who was a big part of Black Adam's issues after Infinite Crisis.

Probably be a closer adaptation to the original.

Bruce Timm on Green Lantern's Animated Series:

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98% of the show is set in space, so we do have lots of opportunities to deal with other Green Lanterns. Kilowog is in practically every episode, Salaak shows up, but there's not so many in the early episodes. You won't see DC heroes like Batman and Robin showing up, at least not anytime soon [...] We will see a little bit of Earth.

The show takes place on the edge of Guardian space and the show starts off with Green Lantern getting killed off on this edge. So Hal borrows a prototypical, faster-than-light ship and he and Kilowog go to investigate. They quickly discover that there are the previously unknown Red Lanterns systematically killing off the Green Lanterns. [!!!]

In the first 13 episodes, Hal and his crew are stuck out on the edge of space. Hal's not a rookie, but he's not a veteran. We actually keep that pretty loose. We didn't want to go back and do the rookie story again because we did that in First Flight and that's what the movie's going to be about. That's really well-traveled ground.

We tried to make him on Captain Kirk's level of experience. It won't follow the continuity of the movie, but we draw from the same sources [...] We'll definitely be getting to Sinestro eventually; we aren't sure when we can do that.

Unlike other superheroes, the Green Lantern has to report to somebody. He has to report to these little blue men who are all kind of cranky. He likes upsetting the apple cart in front of them sometimes. He really has a love-hate relationship with them. Hal becomes stranded in the first arc, but he is able to keep in contact with The Guardians.

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Timm style in 3D? YES

Young Justice Details:

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Greg Weisman: We're adapting Teen Titans, we're adapting Young Justice, we're adapting the whole DC Universe. We're set on Earth 16 in the DC multiverse and we're sort of making ours a young universe. Superman's only been around 10 years, the Justice League's only been around three or four years. Robin's been around four years. The others have been doing it for even less time. Speedy for three, Kid Flash for two, Miss Martian hasn't done it at all yet when our series starts. So we're keeping it young.

Brandon Vietti: It's a show about teenagers who happen to be superheroes [...] They're a cover ops unit, and that will have repercussions in their lives, with their mentors, their parents, all kinds of things [...] The villains we will see are Mr. Freeze, Icicle Junior, Killer Frost, Captain Cold, and Black Manta; that's the five that we're revealing, obviously there's a lot more.

GW: Last time I checked, we had over 150 DC heroes and villains in the show. We have a really small handful of original characters in the show. From the Justice League, the big three are Batman, who assigns them their missions; Red Tornado, who is their den mother; and Black Canary is in charge of their training. The other characters include their individual mentors (like Superman and Martian Manhunter), other heroes like Guardian and Speedy, and the Justice League, whose line-up includes Wonder Woman, Captain Atom, Captain Marvel, Zatara, Hawkwoman, and others. We have a 16-member Justice League.

Team Ice People Plus Black Manta

Yeah, noticed that. What are they gone sail glaciers into shipyards?

Timm and his team seem to be the only producers who say they're fans and choose projects and make decisions that fans in their position would make.

Jim Gordon is my favorite Batman character

And Batman is my favorite comic world/mythology. Yet when I'm asked my favorite comic characters I just say Batman over Jim Gordon.
Probably because I just tend to list the main character and that also includes all of the supporting characters and villains.
Hmm

Just watched Batman/Superman Apocalypse. Batman is probably my favorite hero, but I'm not sure how I feel about him teaming with Superman. I mean he has to fight the same guys Superman does but without any powers and does just fine. It makes it hard to believe he can deal with dudes from Apocalypse and then struggle with any normal criminal in Gotham. It's not really a big deal as they're all very well done, but it just seems like Batman is either super powered or de-powered depending on the circumstances.

Batman is like a God when he is teaming with another hero, or around the JLA.

When he is on his own in Gotham fighting crime, he is just a highly skilled normal man.

As much as I love the Batman mythos, it really doesn't fit in with the rest of the DC Universe at all. I mean, how exactly does the Justice League sleep at night knowing that there's a city that's literally less than a minute's travel away (for most of them) constantly under siege by psychotic mass murderers and crooked cops and ruthless mob bosses? And while it's true that Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, et al, all have their own problems to deal with in their own cities, it's not like they couldn't take shifts. Batman may be a total control freak and more often than not a massive dickhead to his fellow superheroes, but he'd be an idiot for refusing the kind of super-powered help the JLA could bring.

That's why the more I think about it, the more I kind of wish Gotham would just be retconned out of the regular DC Universe and placed under the Vertigo label or something. Batman's a great hero, but he really only works if he's the only hero in town.

I'm suprised nobody has posted yet about Superman's hipster Twilight makeover.

I think Superman: Earth One is outside of continuity so it's not too bad I guess. Unless they've revamped him in DC proper...

I guess re-designing Supes in "alternate universes" is okay, but I figured redisigning Superman was the type of thing they'd learn about. All it accomplishes is getting a blurb on the evening news and yahoo, and people expressing their distaste for it. Then a decade later a few people say "remember when they tried to revamp Superman?"
I would suspect this will be no different.

This was the extent of change I ever dug in Superman:
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Does he sparkle when he's near kryptonite?

Dunno. Bet he fucks dudes though. Probably replaced Lois with a guy named Lou Lane.

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Originally Posted by Boondock Saint (Post 3298593)

ELECTRIC BLUE

You mean this shite?

http://www.supermanhomepage.com/mult...ey-bluered.jpg

They should have a Computer Blue Superman. That would be incredible

Clark in a hoody doesn't seem like Twilight in even a little way. C'mon.

Don't act like it's just Superman in a hoodie. It's been decided upon by DC (and confirmed by them) that it's intended to tap into the Twilight vibe. It's not just the hoody. He's intended to be paler, more brooding, and sport different styles. Not to mention the hairstyle and facial expressions.

http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/crush/sup...r-makeover/488

It's a good thing DC comics has you to clean up any potential bad-mouthing of a single thing they do

Not acting like shit. And none of that 'article' shows that DC's official stance is to get a Twilight vibe. At all. It's just some writer being cute.

C'mon.

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Originally Posted by Jeritron (Post 3298844)

It's a good thing DC comics has you to clean up any potential bad-mouthing of a single thing they do

I never even watched Twilight. Have nothing to say about it.

You act like it's just Superman in a hoodie though. It's DC trying to do a new take on the character that is overhauled to tap into a current youth trend. Twilight is just an example that comes to mind, but to act like it isn't specifically being tailored to capture that overall market on purpose is ridiculous.

"We wanted to tell a story that's hip, sexy, and moody," - DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio

Hmm, I wonder what he means by that...It couldn't possibly be because that style is what is considered hip, sexy, and moody, and DC wants to make money and capture new fans by tapping into it.

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Originally Posted by Jeritron (Post 3298850)

You act like it's just Superman in a hoodie though.

Where'd you get that idea? How did you get this:

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Originally Posted by Jeri

...To act like it isn't specifically being tailored to capture that overall market on purpose is ridiculous.

From this:

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Clark in a hoody doesn't seem like Twilight in even a little way...

Do you hate Twilight that much? Tell me because you seem to be spoiling for a fight when I've said nothing tremendous.

I also don't blame them for doing so. Just because I don't dig Twilight doesn't mean people don't. It's a risk that makes a lot of sense. But I can't see how you can see this all and not recognize what it is.

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Originally Posted by Jeritron (Post 3298853)

Seriously why are you telling me this? Because I guarantee you don't know how I feel about Earth One Superman based on what I'm seeing you write here. And no I didn't give the slightest clue.

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Originally Posted by Kalyx triaD (Post 3298828)

Clark in a hoody doesn't seem like Twilight in even a little way. C'mon.

What was the point of this post then?