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Strange, innit? Like when they for some reason made Constantine The Hellblazer Collection -- a graphic novel adaptation of Keanu Reeves' "Constantine", that terrible supposed adaptation of a Hellblazer storyline. A graphic novel adaptation of a movie adaptation of a graphic novel? Why not just reprint "Hellblazer Dangerous Habits" again and skip the crappy middle-man?
And to add insult to injury -- or more likely, to try and get some sales of this silly double-adaptation travesty -- the "Constantine" trade is one of only two places you can find Hellblazer #27 (by Neil Gaiman) aside from buying the issue for $20.



I never saw the Blue Dragon series. Was it any good?

Wasn't there a Constantine game?
That would be:
1) Comic
2) Movie adaption of comic
3) Comic adaption of movie adaption of comic
4) Game of comic of movie of comic
Any more than 4 morphs for anything?



Is the Hulk a knight errant? Is Blonsky/The Abomination a knight from the same mould as Tarquin?
There's the whole damsel in distress thing going on and the battles have the same preludes to them (ie none).
OK maybe I'm reading too much into things or maybe the myths and archetypes have just soaked into Western culture to such an extent that comic heroes are the new knighthood.
But I'm rambling.
The thought this highlighted for me was that the violence/jousts/duels, as formal as they are, have very little introduction. Not like in the sagas and some of the old celtic stuff where lineage and deeds are recited prior the battle, where the fame of the combatants need to be established. If anything Malory's knights don't care who they go up against, they continually attack folk that they don't recognise or purposefully go in disguise. It is the medieval equivalent of the pub fight: "What you looking at?" BANG!
Also the violence in Malory (and most old tales) has that over the top quality that bards tend to add...or appears in the Hulk. You know, the whole fought for 2 hours/blood soaked grass/armour hacked off/killed hundreds with one blow type of thing.
I'm now going to find it difficult to continue Malory without wishing for Jack Kirby stylee woodcuts. Was Malory the Stan Lee of his day?
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Almost as odd as the novel of the movie of the poem of Beowulf A New Verse Translation.
Or the book of the movie of the game of Dungeons And Dragons.
Are there longer chains?
Will there be a novelisation of Watchmen the movie? Then a game for PS3 or X360?