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: : Ever since man put pen to paper and created the wonderous medium known as "comics", filmmakers have taken the fabled next step in entertainment's evolution and transferred comic books to feature films. With the upcoming Blade II and Spider-Man features this year (and with Hulk, X-Men 2 and Daredevil next year), here is a brief history of comic book movies. : : 1900s to 1950s : : Dozens of comic strip adaptations, minor films. None are amazingly good, except for the cool Superman cartoon. : : 1966 : : Batman: The Movie, taking the popular Batman characters and placing them in a longer format. Movie is pretty good for what it was. Adam West is the man. : : 1978 : : Golden Age of Comic Book Movies begins with Superman feature film. Christopher Reeve is the man. : : 1984 : : Golden Age of Comic Book Movies ends with retarded Superman III and Supergirl feature films. : : 1986 : : Howard the Duck film. It, naturally, sucked. : : 1988 : : Silver Age of Comic Book Movies begins with the classic Akira. : : 1989 : : The ultra-spiffy Batman movie. The Punisher also made, but easily forgiven due to Batman's awesomeness. : : 1990 : : Dick Tracy. The coolness continues. : : 1992 : : Batman Returns. Not as good as the first, but still good. Captain America also released, but nobody noticed or cared. : : 1993 : : Seeing how the Batman movies were doing, stupid began to greenlight comic movies without actually writing good stories or getting good actors, so they all sucked. The Silver Age ends. Cool Batman animated movie (the Mask of the Phantasm) is released, but nobody cares. : : 1994 : : Timecop, The Shadow, Fantastic Four... : : The Crow...the good amongst the crap. The Mask is good, too. : : 1995 : : Tank Girl, Judge Dredd, Batman Forever... : : 1996 : : The Phantom, Barb Wire... : : 1997 : : Steel. Ugh... Batman & Robin...Ugh... Spawn...okay-ish...if you like style over substance. Men in Black heralds the beginning of the Modern Age of Comic Book Movies...where they don't all suck! : : 1998 : : Blade, and it was good. : : 1999 : : Mystery Men. Whoo! : : 2000 : : X-Men. Yay! : : 2001 : : Swell year, with From Hell, Metropolis and the Academy Award-nominated Ghost World (first Oscar nom. ever for a comic flick) released. : : 2002 : : Blade II (3/22/02) : : Spider-Man (5/3/02) : : Men in Black II (7/3/02) : : 2003 : : Daredevil (Feb) : : X-Men 2 (Summer) : : The Hulk (Summer) : : So in closing, we're in store for some good, good comic book movies. But remember, for every Ghost World, Batman and X-Men, there will also be a Punisher and Tank Girl...so beware! : comic-like movie. Better than most at creating a compelling set of characters. I thought the interaction between Bruce Willis and Samuel Jackson was pretty cool.

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