Soldato
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Comic book adaptions for TV have become increasingly popular in the last few years. I'm a born again comic book reader often looking to pick up collected editions of completed works when the price is right.
Yesterday I noticed that Comixology was having a sale on the comic DMZ and I'd seen it was a forthcoming show so thought I take a dip because it was very nicely priced.
Now I'm only 3 or 4 issues in but I'm noticing that the comic books lead character is not the the lead character I remember from the trailer. So I thought I'd check out the Wiki for it and lo and behold Rosario Dawson is the lead which is what I remembered, I wouldn't be particularly upset by a swap of sex for the lead character it's not like it's a long lived beloved IP of mine. But as I read I realised the Rosario Dawson isn't a sex swapped version of the same character she's a different character and the original protagonist isn't in it at all.
Why do you buy an IP and throw out the story in seemingly such a fundamental way?
There seems to be a bit of this going on The Boys for instance has a similar setting and borrows the characters but has taken huge liberties with many of them and the story bears no resemblance. The comic is a Lego box of parts to pull out of to make your own story.
Y:The Last Man made the title character a supporting character in his own series and thankfully died quickly.
I'm told Preacher took a few liberties with the source material too but having not read it I can't comment.
It seems strange to spends large amounts of money on an IP then decide you're better than the person that wrote it and rewrite it fundamentally. I get not everything can move across seamlessly, The Boys for instance was un-filmable the sexual humour and some of the plots were just never suitable for TV but other building blocks of the story that weren't problematic were thrown out and at this point in time I would say to the detriment of the TV story. I get pacing has to change and not all sub-plots are worth following through on, Jackson's Lord of the Ring's trilogy did this and I don't think many people having seen the whole thing would complain too much.
Yesterday I noticed that Comixology was having a sale on the comic DMZ and I'd seen it was a forthcoming show so thought I take a dip because it was very nicely priced.
Now I'm only 3 or 4 issues in but I'm noticing that the comic books lead character is not the the lead character I remember from the trailer. So I thought I'd check out the Wiki for it and lo and behold Rosario Dawson is the lead which is what I remembered, I wouldn't be particularly upset by a swap of sex for the lead character it's not like it's a long lived beloved IP of mine. But as I read I realised the Rosario Dawson isn't a sex swapped version of the same character she's a different character and the original protagonist isn't in it at all.
Why do you buy an IP and throw out the story in seemingly such a fundamental way?
There seems to be a bit of this going on The Boys for instance has a similar setting and borrows the characters but has taken huge liberties with many of them and the story bears no resemblance. The comic is a Lego box of parts to pull out of to make your own story.
Y:The Last Man made the title character a supporting character in his own series and thankfully died quickly.
I'm told Preacher took a few liberties with the source material too but having not read it I can't comment.
It seems strange to spends large amounts of money on an IP then decide you're better than the person that wrote it and rewrite it fundamentally. I get not everything can move across seamlessly, The Boys for instance was un-filmable the sexual humour and some of the plots were just never suitable for TV but other building blocks of the story that weren't problematic were thrown out and at this point in time I would say to the detriment of the TV story. I get pacing has to change and not all sub-plots are worth following through on, Jackson's Lord of the Ring's trilogy did this and I don't think many people having seen the whole thing would complain too much.
