Thread: Are DC and Marvel comics trying to be too much like the movies?
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Old 05-27-2017, 02:09 PM   #25
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You accomplish that with tie-ins, specials, or minis (kind of like DC did way back... B&R dropped, they put out specials for Mr. Freeze, Ivy, and Bane... no main books were affected).
Those tie-ins don't always have to be comics, either.

Even as a kid, I remember thinking that the Mr. Freeze-themed Batman: TAS spin-off SubZero was better than Batman and Robin. If I remember correctly, they delayed its release to '98 because B&R did so badly.
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Mirage [is]...a comic about life and how life and the people closest to you just absolutely suck sometimes. It's "adult" in a very real sense, in that it deals with heavy themes that resonate more with adults, not that it's full of blood and titties or whatever.
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[TMNT 1990 director Steve] Barron recognized the early Mirage issues as perfect storyboards. It's a shame no other filmmaker has.
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