This Image Comic Could Make The Next Sci-Fi Epic
The Hollywood epic has always been a massive draw for audiences ever since the creation of Hollywood. From Metropolis to Ben-Hur slowly building up to more modern epics like The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Avatar. Massive budgets, expansive sets, a foray of colorful costumes, giant stories, larger-than-life characters, and the summer all combine to bring some of the most exciting and big movies in history. Many audiences had considered the Hollywood epic dead outside of comic book superhero movies as they were dominating the box office.
But 2021 was a year that all those who felt that the Hollywood epic was dying, got to see a resurgence of sorts to the massive scale stories many seemed to miss. The Green Knight, The Last Duel, and Dune are just some exciting titles fans got to see this past year. This could be the beginning of a resurgence of large-scale movies and TV that isn't based on comic book superheroes and other older properties like Transformers. Although comic book movies are majority filled with superheroes and supervillains, not all comic books are about super-powered characters in capes. Like any other form of media, comic books are filled to the brim with stories about gunslingers, robots, love, heartbreaks, and anything else writers can think of. Comic books are one of the most versatile art forms in existence and all it takes is some imagination for a massive story to unfold on the pages.
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One of the largest scale and most popular comic books on shelves right now is Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples' Image comic Saga. The epic space opera follows two parents from opposite sides of a war, Alana and Marko, fleeing the authorities
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