I had always heard about The Spirit but never read any of his adventures until I had already been a comic book fan for decades. It was kind of like the first time that I watched Citizen Kane and saw all of the scenes that other filmmakers were clearly inspired by. Will Eisner was the same way with The Spirit - endlessly inventive and expanding the medium in ways that so many creators who followed would be influenced by. It's such a shame that the recent Spirit movie was so poorly executed. The character deserved much better and I hope that folks won't bee too reluctant to sample his print adventures based on what was presented on the silver screen.
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The movie was in and out of theaters before could see it. I'm still looking for the bizarro made-for-TV-version from the 1980's. Or a CD version of the 12" vinyl picture disc I picked up a while back. You'd think that since DC, part of a multi-media WB empire, picked up the character that they'd take advantage of their resources to consolidate his far-flung back catalog.
Despite Eisner's involvement, the TV film isn't very good. The Miller film is awful in just about every way IMO.
I'd love to get that picture disk- I could burn it direct to CD easily!
Dave sez,
As a fan of Sam J. Jones, I kinda liked the TV-ization of The Spirit in a cheesey sort of way.
This latest movie is probably going to be like Jonah Hex - Netflixed and then maybe a Birthday or Christmas pick...
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