Comic Book Movies & What Ails 'Em 2: Aesthetic Hullabaloo
Comic Stripping Dept. - Three years ago, i wrote an article on what I saw as some of the shortcomings of the comic-book movie genre--it has become a genre--and made some suggestions for improvements. Issues covered include the shortage of female-led comic-book adaptations, the need for smaller, more intimate flicks to let the characters breath a bit and the need for a wider variety of films. I've recently written this follow-up looking at how things have progressed on these fronts since 2014:
http://cinemarchaeologist.blogspot.com/2017/06/comic-book-movies-what-ails-em-2.html