Mark Waid Writing Incredibles Comic Book!

[TCJohnson]

Be still my pounding heart!

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080724-disney-pixar-boom.html

[escapegoat]

I am sooooo stoked for this, along with the other Pixar comics that will be coming out. I'm gonna have one happy 4 year girl over here the next year when she gets her hands on these!

[scout1279]

I'm excited about the Incredibles, but I'm unsure about the Muppets. I just don't think they will work in comic book form.

[Corrina]

Duuuuuuuddddde!

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

[Red Jack]

Two great tastes that taste great together.

[theHappyCynic]

Hopefully, Waid's second attempt at writing the Incredibles floats a little bit better than his first try. What? You don't remember him writing Incredibles? Just check out his abomination in the pages of Flash, and that "Wild West" family. Seems a little bit too much like the Incredibles. Of course, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

[Red Jack]

Hopefully, Waid's second attempt at writing the Incredibles floats a little bit better than his first try. What? You don't remember him writing Incredibles? Just check out his abomination in the pages of Flash, and that "Wild West" family. Seems a little bit too much like the Incredibles. Of course, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Wow. Great first post. Way to jump right in.

[JohnPopa]

This could be fun stuff and hopefully they can get the books into places other than comic shops.

[escapegoat]

Wow. Great first post. Way to jump right in.

Eh...I've seen trolls do better. But then again, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. :tongue:

[Black Atom]

Eh...I've seen trolls do better. But then again, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. :tongue:

Well, he is sort of right though. At least, that's exactly what I thought when I heard the news.

Edit: I'm probably in the minority in thinking 2 hours of The Incredibles is plenty. While I love the movie, I didn't think the characters or story was interesting enough to sustain a comic series. After all, anyone who's picked up a comicbook knows the concept of a superhero family has been tackled several times over, most notably in Fantastic Four. The coolest thing about The Incredibles is that it's closest thing we'll get to a great Fantastic Four movie, but standing side-by-side with the comic and others like it, it doesn't really compare.

[escapegoat]

Well, he is sort of right though. At least, that's exactly what I thought when I heard the news.

Edit: I'm probably in the minority in thinking 2 hours of The Incredibles is plenty. While I love the movie, I didn't think the characters or story was interesting enough to sustain a comic series. After all, anyone who's picked up a comicbook knows the concept of a superhero family has been tackled several times over, most notably in Fantastic Four. The coolest thing about The Incredibles is that it's closest thing we'll get to a great Fantastic Four movie, but standing side-by-side with the comic and others like it, it doesn't really compare.

Never read Waid's last run on the Flash, so I can't honestly make any comparisons.

And my interest in the upcoming series and the other Pixar titles isn't for me. It's for my daughter, who loves the characters and isn't old enough to consider factors of "whether such and such a property can be interesting enough to sustain a comic series". The idea behind adapting Pixar to the comics medium isn't to retread what's been done several times in other comics, but to introduce new readers to the medium - namely kids, who have been almost completely ignored over the last 15 years. If there's a way to get these books into the book store and not just the comic specialty shops to attract these new readers, as has been accomplished with Bone just recently, then we need to have publishers make the effort, if only to help perserve, expand, and gain wider acceptance for the medium. Not that those boundaries haven't already been expanded over the last few years via the manga invasion...but with that invasion coming to an end, something new must take its place in order to continue pulling in the next generation of young comic readers.

[JulianPerez]

When the Incredibles first came out, I thought it was the coolest thing since the invention of ice water dispensers in refrigerators.

On seeing it a second time, I'm considerably more critical of it, because Mr. Incredible ultimately isn't sympathetic, because nearly all of his problems are his own doing.

[Spike-X]

my interest in the upcoming series and the other Pixar titles isn't for me. It's for my daughter, who loves the characters and isn't old enough to consider factors of "whether such and such a property can be interesting enough to sustain a comic series".

You're looking at a (proposed) kids' comic from a kid's point of view?


That's the craziest thing I've heard all week!

[Black Atom]

I just realized it was a Boom! project (I couldn't follow the link here at work but read it elsewhere).

[Magneto_X]

Dammit. How am I supposed to cut down on my comics when Mark's doing this?

:biggrin: