Even my mother, who possesses the metahuman ability to cripple any comic book conversation by announcing she used to read Millie the Model for no apparent reason, is a fan of “ Smallville.”Īll of these people watch “ Smallville,” love “ Smallville,” write Tom Welling’s name all over sixth-grade notebook covers, but how many of them are going to read the comic book? People who fell asleep during “ Gilmore Girls” and forgot to change the channel. “ Smallville,” on the other hand, is a really well-made show with very clear ties to the source material that (and here’s the biggie) has a big, diverse fanbase. “ Birds of Prey” had potential but never got to live up to it, and Marvel’s “ Mutant X” bears so little resemblance to anything found in a comic book that they actually defended a lawsuit against 20th Century Fox by arguing it had nothing to do with the X-Men.
Right now, except for the cartoons, “ Smallville” is our best chance to do that.
If it’s a good show, it has the opportunity to hold on to an audience continually for years.
IDENTITY CRISIS MYCOMICS TV
We all know the cycle.Ī TV show is different, though. After that, it’s forgotten for a while until the video and DVD release, then forgotten again until the sequel, then forgotten again until the studio gives the third installment to a director who has no love or respect for the franchise and makes two movies that are so bad you want to forget the comic book even existed in the first place.
IDENTITY CRISIS MYCOMICS MOVIE
Sure, the Spider-Man movie was a blockbuster, but even the most successful movie is only in theatres for a few months. But I also believe that for comic books to really move forward, we’ve got to find ways to reach out and grab the potential audience that’s never been inside a shop, and I think that the “ Smallville” TV show is probably the best chance we’ve got to do that for the next several years. I love the comic shop I go to as much as the next guy - the staff is friendly, helpful and the manager is so good at pointing out stuff he thinks I’d like that one would suspect he got paid on commission. (Well, it’s actually the second issue, if you count the one-shot they did last year, which is going to play havoc with the database I keep track of my comics on, which is one of the things that bugs me about new issue number ones, which is a different column entirely, so forget I brought it up.) The point is, Smallville #1 is now available in comic shops nationwide.Īnybody want to guess what’s wrong with that statement? Anyone? You sir, in the back, with the Mage tee shirt on? No? Okay, I’ll tell you - “available in comic shops” is what’s wrong with it. Unless there was a UPS strike this week nobody told me about, by the time you read this you should be able to pick up the first issue of the new Smallville comic. Sadly, almost three years later, this pretty much still applies. and how it wasn't used to its maximum potential. This one, from March 19, 2003, is about the then-new Smallville comic book, capitalizing on the still-popular Smallville TV show. Presenting another classic Everything But Imaginary for your edification, friends.
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