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From: mcb@k.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Browne)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: Superheroes in movies
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Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 13:06:54 EST
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In article <726@hou2g.UUCP> scott@hou2g.UUCP (The Brennan Monster) writes:
>Only the superhero is exclusively a comic
>book genre.  There is also a kind of Catch-22 here--people don't
>read comics because "it's all about that superhero nonsense" while
>superheroes don't make it in other media because "That's just comic
>book stuff".

Actually, I think that superheroes don't make it in movies and TV because
real people look silly in costumes.  Because of this, superheroes in other
media are almost always played for laughs.  (Just look at the Batman TV show
and the Superman movies for example.)  Offhand, I can't think of a show or
movie that wasn't "camp".  If anyone has a counter example, I'd like to hear
about it.