Random Thought Of The Day #491

Day 491

Only 6 more days until the new season of The Walking Dead starts.

I love this show. But I think it's a combination of my love for zombie flicks, my love of good shows & my love of anything that uses comic books as it's source material.

Well... anything other than the Halle Berry Catwoman movie. And maybe the 3rd & 4th Batman movies. And the...

Oh, fuck it... just anything that was sourced from DC Comics before 2005.

But the thing is... this is just the first of a coming wave of comic book sourced materials moving from the Big Screen down to the Small Screen.

Marvel has done amazing things with their movies. Between their cohesive cinematic universe that leads up to the Avengers next year to their licensed movies like the first 2 Spider-Man & X-Men movies (the 3rd movies in both of those series sucked gigantic donkey cock) and the Blade series and a number of other movies they've done, they've done a great job. But I guess there were Daredevil & Elektra movies in there too... so maybe their track record isn't exactly perfect.

DC has done some good work with the Batman reboot, Green Lantern (Ryan Reynolds isn't quite enough of a dick to play Hal Jordan, but it was still pretty decent) and hopefully the upcoming Man Of Steel reboot of Superman. They've had a few misses in there  (Superman Returns?) but still done pretty good. And their Vertigo & Wildstorm/America's Best Comics properties have turned out to be pretty decent movies... even when they've totally ignored the source material. They still made pretty good movies out of them.

But the thing was... these were entertainment at 2-hour clips once every 2-4 years.

The Walking Dead was the first comic-sourced property to be well-transferred to the small screen. And you had to figure it would be a cable network to get it right. AMC did a damn good job on the first season. Even if it was only 6 episodes. Zombie survival? Comic-book-to-tv medium transfer? YES PLEASE! 

Spike tried a Blade series a few years ago... but that was a waste of air time. Mostly cause it wasn't Wesley Snipes in the show. Plus... well... it was just pretty bad.

But there's at least 3 more shows coming up that might turn out to be totally bad-ass comic book based shows.

Powers should be awesome. A series about a couple of cops in the Powers division of the police station. The cops that are responsible for dealing with super-assholes when they cross the line. Investigating when one of those types ends up getting their ass killed or breaking the law. I just hope they keep that dark, blue-hued tone to the lens. Then again, they turned the Walking Dead from a B&W comic into a color tv show & it looked amazing. So I'll trust those whose job it is to not fuck it up to... you know... not fuck it up.

Incredible Hulk... come on... it's the Hulk back on TV. I just hope they make him Bruce Banner this time and not fucking David Banner like in the 70's show. But hey... it's Guillermo Del Toro running it... so I trust him. Even if thought the second Hellboy was fucking stupid & had too many god damn fairy's and shit.

AKA Jessica Jones. This one should be pretty cool. Also a crime-based series but can't use the actual comic title cause... well... Alias was already used like 10 years ago on ABC once. That would confuse the fuck out of people.

"Hey, Alias is on tonight."
"Wait, I thought that shit got cancelled like 5 years ago"
"Yeah... I mean no... I mean... it's a different show"
"But it's still called Alias?"
"Yeah"
"But it's not the one with Jennifer Garner?"
"No."
"So then why does it have the same name?"
"I have no idea, but it's not the same one"
"Is it about the same thing but with just a new chick?"
"No. It's about some former superhero chick that decides to become a PI and ends up getting hired by superheroes all the time"
"They why didn't they just have a new title?"
"Fuck... got me. But it's still pretty cool"
"I'll pass... sounds too confusing already."

So yeah... But hey... Luke Cage should be popping up to ass fuck Jessica Jones once or twice in it. Well... he did it in the comic. But he won't be wearing that 70's style yellow silk shirt open to the waist & a fucking tiara cause that shit was really fucking gay. I mean, why the fuck was he wearing a tiara at all? That just never made any damn sense. I mean... I know he was all 70's black-sploitation style when he was created and all that but a tiara? Bright yellow silk shirt open to the waist? Ok... I can get that... but a tiara? No... just... no. Could you imagine anyone getting into a fight with a large black man wearing a tiara? I wouldn't be able to stop laughing long enough to fight back. Maybe that was his goal? Make the other guy fall over laughing and then just kick him in the head.

Shut up... it makes sense in my head.

OK... I think I'm done now.