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schmevil (schmevil) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-28 17:55:00

John Campbell anyone?
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These are from his webcomic Pictures For Sad Children.

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And these are from his LJ sort-of-webcomic Stereotypist.

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	schmevil 2009-05-28 08:17 pm UTC (link)
	Good god. How could it not be? Phantom would make a horrible kids story. I don't know how you even begin to adapt that for children, in the Disney age. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	parsimonia 2009-05-28 08:56 pm UTC (link)
	I can't really remember much about it, TBH, but I know I liked it because it was the only way I could watch Phantom after I'd seen the musical, other than the old silent movie, which was cool in its own way, but way creepier. Honestly, it wasn't until I watched the 2004 movie that I realized just how fucked up that story and those characters are. (Reply to this) (Parent)

psychop_rex
2009-05-29 01:57 am UTC (link)

It's not impossible - Disney did 'Hunchback of Notre Dame', after all, and that turned out pretty well. (Of course, one of the reasons I say that is that the original book is one of THE most depressing and pointless novels ever written, in my opinion, unless you're a REALLY big fan of Parisian architecture - so just about anything would have turned out better.) I could see a Disney Phantom being done well, with a bit of creativity - if nothing else, Christine and Raoul would have to be fleshed out a bit, since the Phantom would inevitably be made more of a bad guy, which would make them the hero and heroine, and they're WAY too cardboard-cutout for those roles at the moment. They'd probably wind up using the Lon Chaney version for reference, and I have NO PROBLEM with that.

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