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sabotabby ([personal profile] sabotabby) wrote2014-02-06 05:29 pm
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Today in Don't Get Your Hopes Up, Sabs

So it sounds like two of my favourite comics are possibly getting TV shows.

The Red Star is a gorgeous, practically plotless steampunk fantasy allegory of the Russian Revolution with a genderswapped Trotsky (yes, really), gigantic armoured Stalin, and a plethora of badass ladies. It makes zero sense and is completely beautiful, and I have no idea how they would ever make it into a show. Also, does anyone actually read it? Then again, they made it into a video game, which is apparently good, and for some reason a clothing line. I'm deeply confused as to how you could adapt it for TV—the best idea would be to keep the worldbuilding, aesthetic, and characters, and come up with a completely new plot—but I want it anyway.

More realistic is talk of adapting DMZ, which is set in Manhattan during a near-future American civil war, and is pretty episodic to begin with. This sounds like it could actually happen.

Squee!

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