Not All Comicbook Movies Require Spandex

So how many of you are enjoying the last decade of comicbook movies? Comicbooks have come to the big screen before that, sure, but few and far between and mainly DC's Superman and Batman. It really started to snowball with Spider-man and X-Men. Then with Ironman and Batman (again). Now it seems each year they throw two or three comicbook movies at us Thor, Captain America, and Green Lantern hit us last year, and Avengers and the third Batman movie are slated to hit us this year. But I don't want to talk about those kind of comicbook movies. I want to talk about the comicbook movies you may not have known were comicbooks. The first successful of these non-traditional superhero comicbook movies in the last few years would have to have been the movie 300. 300 Spartans versus the entire Persian army. I love that movie. Another was the vampire movie 30 Days of Night, where the entire town of Barrow Alaska is overrun by the bloodsuckers. Another successful comicbook movie was Sin City, depicting a few of those stories in one movie. Did you know that the movie Red featuring Bruce Willis was based on a comic? The comic is awesome by the way, but completely different from the movie, you gotta keep them seperated (Offspring reference). Another Bruce Willis staring comicbook movie was The Surrogates, I still need to get that one on dvd. Not to say any or all comicbook movies are good, to each their own. I remember reading The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen and then couldn't believe the crap they made into a motion picture. If any of what I've written inspires you to read the comicbook version, do yourselves a favor and read The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, they're collected into volumes one and two and are brilliant. So hopefully I've showed you that not all comicbook movies require spandex.