Q: Why are comic book adaptations of movies a thing? Do you mediate any are worth reading? -- Daniel,via email
A: You don't see them around too much these days, but when I was a kid, and comic book film adaptations --- official comic book film adaptations --- were a pretty expansive deal. Or at least,that's how it seemed to me. See, when you're stuck in the back seat of a Ford Escort on a 600-mile car trip and you want to know more approximately this new film that you've been reading approximately in Disney Adventures, or you're also living in a time before everyone carried a tiny personal computer that could show them literally every comic book,television show, and music video in the world, or well,picking up a The Rocketeer: The Official film Adaptation off the magazine rack at a gas station was a pretty solid way to destroy some time.
But then, I imagine that's the problem.
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Source: comicsalliance.com