On Adaptations

Extracted from a lovely rantBy the way, I feel like that rant has nothing to do with me: I only read things I think I’ll enjoy, or am enjoying. I get almost no output from the Big Two, and what I do get tends to be from their boutique labels–and if I stop enjoying it, I stop buying it. at Beaucoup Kevin:

While I’m at it, if you’re getting excited over Watchmen as a two-hour movie, then go fuck yourself. No, really, go ahead and do it now – I’ll wait. Superhero comics have their very own Finnegan’s Wake and The Crying of Lot 49 rolled into one, beautiful piece of work and you want to see it raped and reduced to a 120-minute running time? What the hell is wrong with you?

I think that ties in nicely with the Moore quotations on adaptation from a couple of days ago.