These 10 Vertigo Comics Would Make Amazing TV Shows
This week sees the premiere of DMZ on HBO Max. Based on the comic by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli, it follows a photojournalist in a New York City that serves as a demilitarized zone between two forces in a modern Civil War-torn America. The book was originally published by DC’s Vertigo imprint, one of the most fertile labels in the industry. Many of their comics have become shows—Preacher, Y: The Last Man, and Doom Patrol just to name a few. But we wanted to dive into their deep bench and spotlight ten other Vertigo series that would be kick-ass TV.
Enough time has passed from Harry Potter to make The Unwritten seem very prescient. The protagonist of the series is Tommy Taylor, who his dad used as the protagonist of a massively popular series of novels about a young wizard. But when Wilson Taylor mysteriously disappears, a grown-up Tommy must reckon with his legacy and the leakage of the fictional world into the real one. It’s a solid series with a good hook and a mystery at its core that will easily grab viewers.
This is one that has been in development hell both as a TV series and as a movie for over a decade, but there’s a good reason for it. 100 Bullets starts off as a story of crime and revenge, featuring a briefcase full of 100 untraceable bullets and a handgun, along with absolute proof that a person deserves to die. But it rapidly spirals out into a massive conspiracy that involves secret societies and more. It’s a vast and rich narrative world that could definitely grab a new audience on streaming.
Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo’s three-issue miniseries stars Simone Cundy, a miserable English teen who can’t even get her dad to read her suicide note. Shockingly, she discovers that she has a long-lost
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