Because that Singalong Blog about superheroes/supervillians wasn't gay enough, now there is word from up high that comic legend Stan Lee is working with Showtime to adapt Perry Moore's Hero into an hour long drama.
Oh yah, so The Dark Knight and Iron Man and X-men and the upcoming Watchmen movie have some classicist goons bemoaning the fact that the traditional comic medium is getting raped for the almighty buck on the big screen. What the purist nerds seem to forget is, before Maus, no one took the comic book genre seriously: there was no such things as "graphic novels" and the industry wasn't all Kavalier and Clay until some publisher somewhere realized that elevating comics to a high art form actually made more money than the traditional penny weeklies.
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You know it's officially a crisis of faith when even the comic book industry can't make a go of it in the Big Apple, the unofficial birth place of the modern superhero. Virgin Comics, which specializes in Indian culture serials and adaptable graphic novels for stars (which is why Jenna Jameson has her own series, btw) will be closing its New York offices for good. The company is expected to relocate to L.A. to cash in on some of those movie deals they've been shopping around, because the future is Super-Spider-Iron-Hulk-Man.
Pour one out for Virgin Comics NYC. They never got as much street cred as Marvel, DC, or Vertigo, but maybe that will change now that Stan Lee has offered to help the brand create a new line of superheroes when they relocate.
And yes, the Virgin logo is one of Richard Branson's trademarks; he co-owns the franchise with Deepak Chopra's son, Gotham. So weirdly enough, the Indian company with a stake in Virgin is called Gotham Entertainment, even though this news means they will not have a reason to visit Batman's hometown anytime soon. It's just more bad news for Branson, whose been forced to shutter his Times Square and Union Square Virgin Megastores thanks to plummeting sales. So what is an eccentric billionaire Branson to do to revive his brand? CONTINUED »
