It’s a great time to be a comic book fan. Regardless of whether you like them or hate them, the Marvel, DC, Valiant and Extreme Comics relaunches are re-casting some of the best-known characters in comics history in new and exciting ways, with the resultant tide seeming to lift almost all boats in the comics industry.Image and IDW have launched more great new series in the last year or two than most publishers had in the five years previous combined, and exciting new digital frontiers are opening not just for the Big Two, but with things like Mark Waid’s Thrillbent and Chris Roberson’s Monkeybrain Comics as well.And then there are the movies.The massive success of mainstream superhero properties has transformed the cinema landscape in a number of ways, one of which is that comics and graphic novels that never would have been considered a viable, marketable property in the past are now just a few steps from becoming feature films or TV shows.Will they ever happen? It’s difficult to say; no matter how good your idea is, and how many people are behind it, there’s a good chance it’ll all fall apart in Hollywood. Still, the fact that these things are even being discussed would have seemed insane just ten short years ago, and so let’s just take some time to revel in the awesomeness of these concepts for a while before about 1/3 to a half of them evaporate.
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