Gods and Losers

[tartysuz]

I forgot to tell you about my Tarticles this week!

People seem to be getting over the idea that the source material for adaptations is always better. If this is a fact (and goes beyond an impression I've formed from anecdotal evidence), then it seems that 40 years of media studies has finally filtered through to the general public, and/or that people's experience of stories in different platforms (comic-movie-animation-video game or whatever order) has changed people's attitude toward the presentation and reading of narratives. In that spirit, I found that changes to the Vertigo Comics series The Losers made the story different in very interesting ways:

Adapting the Losers:
http://www.sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=1725

In Supernatural Talk, we took on SPN 5.19: Hammer of the Gods. The show was really ambitious with this, and left us with a lot of questions.

Supernatural Talk 5.19: Hammer of the Gods:
http://www.sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=1727

Comments

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Could we count those changes from comics to film as ominous, or just Hollywood SOP?

(To be fair, there have been other films from Hollywood that covered ground not unlike the more recent comics incarnation of the Losers.)