This recently released movie poster for the new Losers movie does seem to point out one fundamental flaw in transferring comics to movies. No matter how good the movies are, sometimes you just can’t do it as well as the vision of an artist. It’s a great poster, iconic, striking, everything it needs to be. Except then you compare it against a similar piece by the comic’s artist Jock and you realise that it’s so far inferior as to barely be worth comparing:
By such is the way of these things. Just figured you’d like to see the comparison anyway. And it’s a nice way to be able to point out that DC have finally done the right thing and re-released the Losers Volumes 1 & 2, this time in one big 300 page volume, just in time to catch the film. Like all great comics made into movies, please, please – read the comic first.
Sun, Feb 7, 2010
Art and animation, Comics and cartoons, Film, TV and radio