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Mashing Comics with History

BENNY

When I was first asked to write a book, I was a bit taken aback. I’m a guy who takes comic books, condenses them down and adds in some music and flair for a dramatic recap of that comic. This was completely out of my wheelhouse, and I was a floored that I would get the offer. But then when they asked me to write about comic book movies, it made more sense. This is what I do: talk about comic books and the movies related to them.

Originally, the plan was to discuss comic book movies in the context of how we got from the worst to the best. But as I did the research and dived into these movies I discovered, that isn’t how it happened. Everyone loves to think about those little gems that get mentioned but that no one has ever seen. Things like the Nick Fury television movie starring David Hasselhoff or the original Fantastic Four movie that was never actually released.

We all have fond memories of the bat nipples from Batman and Robin and memories of Christopher Reeve from Superman. But it’s a jumbled mess in which timelines and ideas are mixed up. It’s been so long, and so much has happened, that people just don’t remember things properly anymore. I for one am guilty of that.

Now a recurring theme you’ll begin to see with movies post-2005, after the era of the Spider-Man films and the Batman

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