Comic Book Shows on TV

This seems to be the latest trend, promote your studio super hero movies with a tie in TV show, looks like we'll finally get a decent adaptation of Hellblazer, complete with snarky British wit.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VukUg5Jh6k

 

Also, The Flash, Gotham, Daredevil, Power Man, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones & Agent Carter all getting their own series. I see talk of an X-Men weekly as well so we'll see how this all shakes out next Fall.

A couple of my mates were raving about Arrow. Not seen it yet myself, any good?

I don't watch CW, that's a vagina channel. It would have been funny if someone took the "CW" logo and made a Caustic Window artwork out of it.

Re: Constantine.
Its gotta be better than the Keanu Reeves effort, right?

Mos definitely sir.

Trailer actually looks good. They have a lot of source material to pull from if its based on the original Hellblazer series, so here's hoping they don't thunk this one up.

Are these any good? On quick glance they look like crap to me so I haven't even bothered to actually watch any of these.

 

We should have David Lynch direct a TV series on Swamp Thing. That I'd watch.

New 52 Constantine is an abomination in the eyes the Lord.

 

 

  On 5/12/2014 at 7:28 PM, mokz said:

 

 

We should have David Lynch direct a TV series on Swamp Thing. That I'd watch.

Edited May 12, 2014 by doublename

  On 5/12/2014 at 7:28 PM, mokz said:

Are these any good? On quick glance they look like crap to me so I haven't even bothered to actually watch any of these.

 

We should have David Lynch direct a TV series on Swamp Thing. That I'd watch.

The only ones currently airing are Shield and Arrow. Shield has gotten much better since the Captain America 2 movie, I don't watch Arrow.

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Joker is supposed to appear in the first season as well.

I'll give Gotham and Constantine a shot when they start airing. Shield was boring as fuck, gave up on it after a couple of episodes.

the Flash looks kinda good, his cameos in Arrow were probably the best thing about Arrow, although high likelihood it will hit too many bland TV show vibes

the Preacher is also coming to the AMC network, oddly it's being written and produced by Seth Rogan

I hope this means Vertigo comics will eventually have a halfway decent film made based on the universe (i'm having a hard time believing this Joseph Gordon Levit Sandman movie or the GDT film 'justice league dark' will actually ever be put into production)

There is also the Walking Dead spinoff coming, which I guess counts as a comic book kinda

Vincent D'onofrio cast as The Kingpin in Daredevil.

  On 5/17/2014 at 8:00 AM, Rubin Farr said:

There is also the Walking Dead spinoff coming, which I guess counts as a comic book kinda

I am curious as to what this will be about. Presume another bunch of survivors potentially in a different country?

Walking Dead UK: 28 Months Later

in the new trailer for the Constantine show you see a brief glimpse of Dr. Fate's helmet, although after Dr. Fate appeared live action in Smallville, not sure if i want to see him again, but this show looks a hell of a lot better than Smallville.
http://www.superherohype.com/news/304937-a-new-constantine-trailer-reveals-the-shows-ties-to-a-larger-dc-universe#/slide/1

The new Daredevil from Netflix

 

Arrow is a great show and totally worth watching. First season is on netflix, had fun watching all episodes in a few days. I haven't seen the second season yet but I hear it gets even better. Plus it has Deathstroke!

I have to say Deathstroke turned out much better than Deadlock on TV.

I might have to get Netflix just for the Marvel shows.

I lost interest in Walking Dead after Season 2, it's so boring compared to the comics.

I hear Arrow is okay but I haven't started it yet... It's sitting in my list on Netflix

I'm a huge Batman fan but Gotham doesn't interest me at all, I think it looks pretty terrible.... Is it actually good?

Constantine could be good, if it borrows more from the original Hellblazer series than the new 52 adaptations.

 

  On 5/17/2014 at 5:01 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

the Preacher is also coming to the AMC network, oddly it's being written and produced by Seth Rogan

Wasn't aware of this, but Seth Rogan makes me skeptical... Is he known to be a big comic fan?

Edited August 7, 2014 by ghOsty

I don't know, he's supposedly been a long time fan of the Preacher though. I'm confident it will be better than the typical TV show, he's writing most of the first season.

Arrow for me is one of the only remotely tolerable super hero shows currently on TV. Constantine seems like it will be pretty good, the pilot has been leaked for a while