Best of 2006: Adaptation

It seems to be a consensus around here that last year wasn’t a great one at the movies, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t some fine flicks. And while TV saw a few new adaptations, the video game front proved one of the best outlets for comics outside comics.

V for Vendetta

I liked “V for Vendetta” a great deal. Pretty much everything else was fairly bland.
— Doom DeLuise

There may have been problems with the film in how it strayed from the book, but the areas in which the film modernized itself created a fantastic movie that has gotten plenty of non-comics fans talking.
— Jim Doom

Superman Returns

I loved “Superman Returns.” It sent chills down my spine and made me giddy to see a character I used to consider boring fly again.
— Doominator

I don’t know why, but the more I thought of V for Vendetta, the less I liked it. Unnecessary changes from the source material and somehow making the conclusion more cartoony than the comic book left a bad aftertaste. Without much else to choose from, I have to go with Superman Returns, which managed to pay homage to the earlier films while greatly improving on them. On a side note, I probably should’ve taken an easy out and picked Heroes, since it rips off every comic book ever written.
— Jean-Claude Van Doom

Justice League Heroes

I honestly didn’t think I would like this game at all when it came out. I mean, you could only play as two Leaguers at a time, and you didn’t even get to pick which ones like in X-Men Legends. Then I actually played the game, and had an absolute blast. The story was actually not bad, and the voice acting was pretty great. Colonel Doom and I spent hours playing through the game, maxing out the stats on Superman and Hal Jordan, laying out battle plans for the best way to take down the final boss. Outside of the Paul Dini/Bruce Timm animated DC Universe, Justice League Heroes might be the best adaptation of DC characters to date.
— Fin Fang Doom