The nail finally hit the coffin when it comes to Constantine. NBC has officially cancelled the supernatural “Comic Book” show based on the exploits of John Constantine and the comic book Hellblazer. This is the first official Comic Book based TV show cancelled by any network in what is being called “The Golden Age of Comic Books for Movies and TV”.
By Adam Vega What is it about the gritty, shadowy, and darkened dim world of New York that fascinates us so much? Is it that film noir look or mysterious atmospheric realm that draws us into the unknown? That’s what separates Netflixs’ Daredevil from the rest of the live action Marvel characters. Although part of the same universe as The Avengers, Charlie Cox portrays blind lawyer Matt Murdock in a way that separates Daredevil into his sub-genre of super-hero fandom. This grim New York tales\ represents the everyday “humans” living in a world of omnipotent beings, but emphasizes more on a sub-story of human-suffering, human-crime, and human-personality that connects the audience into a related manner.
IDW Games is on the case! Get ready to hunt down the city’s super-powered serial killers in a new line of tabletop games based off the Powers graphic novels. Powers, by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, is an Eisner Award winning super hero noir series that was recently adapted for television by PlayStation network. The Powers game line will include card, board, and dice games each focusing on different situations and characters from the series.
When 2011 came rolling around, the only show DC Entertainment had on the small screen was Smallville, and as that show was winding down, people were wondering what would be the next superhero to enter the world of comic books on TV. A year later we had Arrow, which followed the exploits of Oliver Queen as DC Comics mainstay Green Arrow. The show has introduced a variety of characters good and bad, including Black Canary, Red Arrow and The Flash. Now here we are 2015 and The Flash is currently the best comic book TV series on the air.
Last year, when the new television season was upon us, many in the geek/comic book community were excited with several DC Entertainment entries on several different networks ready to premiere. We had The Flash, with the entire spotlight on the “scarlet speedster”, this show, spawned from the current hit “Arrow” was expected to be a runaway hit. Then we had Gotham, the dark and gritty retelling of the Batman mythos without Batman. This one features most of the Dark Knight’s rogues gallery of villains including Catwoman, The Riddler and an up and coming crime boss known as the Penguin who played by Robin Lord Taylor has become the breakout star of Gotham and has already become a seminal hit.
