Dan Daredevil
When artiste Chris "The Filth" Weston ( know he has other credits, I just like calling him "The Filth") saw the poster for Frank Miller's upcoming movie of Will Eisner's The Spirit, it inspired him to go Miller on another classic comics hero: 
Dan Dare at Wikipedia
Chris' blog (Currently very active)
Chris at Amazon
Miller's Spirit movie
3 comments:
Tell me that that's not actually a poster for 'The Spirit.'
Please...?
I usually laugh at the fanboys who get all pissy when a comic character is "reinvented" for the movies.
But... that poster makes me want to cry. I've waited 20 years for a "Spirit" movie, and it looks like Frank Miller is plopping him down in Sin City.
Say it ain't so.
Always unsettling to see a hero re-interpreted for a later decade. Dan Dare belongs to the same era as the Festival of Britain and J. Arthur Rank -- trying to fit him into the iPod age would be a sin. Similarly, The Spirit is so much a part of his time that I really don't want to see an update of him. Remember that dreadful Val Kilmer movie of The Saint? If they'd changed the hero's name I wouldn't have even realised it was the same character.
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