Comments on: Watch: Clips From ‘Arrow’ & Animated ‘The Dark Knight’ Prove Not Every Comic Adaptation Works

By: KEVIN IS THE NEW GABE

KEVIN IS THE NEW GABE — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:30:50 +0000

Or Kevin Jagernauth is dead and Gabe Toro is simply writing under his name. Otherwise how can one have so much bad taste consistently?

By: Scott Mendelson

Scott Mendelson — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:30:50 +0000

I watched the Dark Knight Returns Part I this morning (review later) and it was much better and far more cinematic than I expected. I found Batman Year One to be a glorified motion-comic, but this was a genuine improvement. As for 'neutering' the text, it's pretty much all there. Yes there are edits for time and a few token changes that make the movie work as a cinematic cartoon rather than a readers' theater comic book, but it works. It's not anywhere near the best of the DCAU movies (still Wonder Woman) and it arguably isn't necessary (why not tell original stories?), but it does what it sets out to do.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:30:50 +0000

You're mad that they don't open with a Marvel logo. Got it.

By: Myk McGrane

Myk McGrane — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:30:50 +0000

Well KEVIN JAGERNAUTH, it's great that you're not a studio exec. This is exactly what the movie should be like. It's nearly frame for frame out of the graphic novel. "Again, there is weird mix of seriousness and kiddie-like lightheartedness that doesn't mesh well." — that was it? The Dark Knight series had very similar tones with that. Good luck with your mindset leading you into the future.

By: Stuperhero

Stuperhero — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:30:50 +0000

Holy crap, you do realize superheroes were expressly invented as entertainment FOR KIDS, right? I have no opinion on either of these shows, not having seen them, but the original Batman Animated Series (the Bruce Timm one) was excellent and pitched exactly right: moody and serious and enjoyable at any age, but still essentially for kids. This is what Chris Nolan's ultra ponderous Dark Knight has brought us to: adult bloggers whinging (without even a hint of irony) that superhero stories are too "kiddie like."