Looking For A Green Future?
Written by Creator Christoph Keller on Creators.co
Is it just me or does the trend of successful Comic Book adaptions does give a little hope for more of those Comic Books I used to read and love as a kid. Surprisingly succesful adaptions like Deadpool for example are the ones that open the doors for new ideas. Don't get me wrong, I do love a lot of those movies that were published so far, especially the ones from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Let's take a quick look at Deadpool, a lot has been written already and many do hope that the announced sequel will be at least as good as the first one. Still hoping, still just saying. When I left the cinema I kinda thought that the way how this movie was written and produced may lead to adapt stories from other characters. It wasn't after I watched the Trailers for the upcoming Movie Suicide Squad, a Movie Where Margot Robbie will play the part of Harley Quinn. One of those crazy Comic Book Characters that more than once also broke some rules of storytelling. Like Deadpool she is the impersonation of an R-Rated mouthful of a character. Loud, cruel, funny and vexing. There it happened, this combination - especially the breaking of the Fourth Wall (among other rules) - reminded me of the time when John Byrne wrote The Sensational She-Hulk (1989-1993). In this time she was totally aware that she was a star in a Comic Book and she not only talked to the Author and/or the Editor but also directly to the Reader. The book was filled with jokes that were quite unusual in a regular Comic Book, which also lead to the situation that John Byrne was even fired for some time and only the change of the Editor lead to the fact that he was able to continue his stories.