TOP 10 COMICS FILMS

Exactly what it says on the tin – my top ten films adapted from comics.

As I observed in my Top 10 Comics, comics are my guilty reading pleasure I have retained from childhood, much like animation in TV or film. And much like animation, whatever the comic, I’ll usually enjoy checking it or its characters out. However, I don’t read that many comics, let alone actively follow them. For most comics, I don’t go beyond checking them or their characters out in brief overview or review to reading them in depth. Usually, my interest is satisfied by the idea of a comic – or ideas in a comic – rather than the comic itself.

In particular, I don’t follow or read any comics from the ruling duopoly of DC and Marvel, although I have an enduring interest in and familiarity with many of their characters – but more in their film or television adaptations, hence this top ten, even if it leans towards entries adapted from comics by other publishers.

Similarly to my Top 10 Animated Films, my Top 10 Comics Films is effectively a subset of my Top 10 Fantasy & SF Films, as (almost) every entry is either fantasy or SF and I will note the extent of each entry as such. As a general rule, animated films lean towards fantasy, while films adapted from comics lean towards SF – consistent with the comics on which they are based. They also tend to be comedic in nature, with both verbal and visual humor – such that they might also effectively be a subset of my Top 10 Comedy Films and again I will note the extent of each entry as comedy.