Can Brat Pack be adapted in this modern climate

The whole thing is an edgy critique on sidekicks, but cape movies have largely avoided that aspect so it would fall completely flat. You could lean more into the "capes aren't supposed to be this dark" aspect, but there are plenty of other comics that would work better for that.

They would turn Mink into a good guy cause they dont wanna shie evil fags as pedophiles

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Yeah, they also would mix some real world/modern politics because why not. Same for Brat Pack, that would ruin it everything.

You got a point here, and thank God there are no sidekicks in capeshit (for now). So they should do the next best thing and adapt Marshal Law

it wouldnt make sense because heroes dont have sidekicks anymore except batman but even they are elevated to more equals who go on solo adventures.

Nah you lose sidekicks you lose trying to appeal to all ages, forces grimdark interpretation of reality thats just always cynical. For example The Incredibles movie cant even exist if there are no sidekicks and part of the plot of that movie is all the classic heroes being killed off etc

Much like Squadron Supreme, it's unfortunately doing ground covered by other superhero deconstructions which would make it feel like it's riding off those coattails.

Nah you lose sidekicks you lose trying to appeal to all ages

I never understood this appeal, ie as a kid I wanted to be Batman, I never wanted to be Robin. However I must say I don't hate ALL sidekicks, only kids as sidekicks, it works in some stories but overall I think that is a bad trope and a bad idea because, goddamn man you are bringing a fucking kid to a crime fight.

The Incredibles

But that was lightning in a bottle, it's a movie so good that it pleases both Watchmen readers and Disney's moms, no wonder you can make sidekicks work in that universe.

Also they actually did a little parody of that trope with Kickass the movie

I was just giving you a simple example, I much prefer sidekicks to two 'equal' spidermans both with the name Spiderman and two Hawkeyes both with the name Hawkeye to appease everyone and no one at the same time. now we cant have stuff like Young Avengers or Teen Titans because if they even tried a young avengers movie the entire roster would be 30 years old and in the comics they changed the name just to "Titans" cus being a sidekick is degrading now, anything less than total equality is seen as degrading.

the next best thing

Adapting comics you like is not a 'best' anything. Adaptations only bring bad shit.

Sidekick pedo jokes have been squeezed dry

The live action japanese Death Notes are really good retellings with changes appropriate to the shorter length but generally youre right. Again tho, Raimis Spiderman is really good.

Raimi's Spider-Man is a reinterpretation of an IP that has had multiple titles and adaptations.

however you want to classify it lol, can just say reinterpretations are good and 'adaptations' bad lol. People like seeing iconic scenes done in live action like a super high budget cosplay I think thats all there is to it. If you remember pre MCU most of the discussion was "do you think theyll do x scene" and "how will x characters costume look" but now they homogonized everything so its not as interesting to think about

Can someone explain to me what the fuck is maximortal i tried reading it it's just i am too retarded to understand it

It's been 15 years since I read but it's mostly about the comic industry, specially Superman, Maxi as the comic character shows how Supes changed culture, the creators are cleary Siegel and Shuster (with the guy that buys Maxi having a lot of hints of Disney iirc), Maxi as the actor is inspired by the life of George Reeves and so on. The whole Shit Wizard and baby Maxi killing people is just Veitch shenanigans iirc.

Honstely, someone who read this more recently or have a better memory will have a better.

However I must say I don't hate ALL sidekicks, only kids as sidekicks

Adult sidekicks are lame as hell
Trying to find logic into bringing a kid into crimefighting kills all the romanticism of the genre.

I think that the question should start with "Should it" instead of "Could it" because we've already got The Boys that more or less does the same social commentary as The Brat Pack:
Not to mention the fact that Brat Pack was made at the perfect time where the comic market was going into the dark and edgy and highly commercialized era where message it was trying to talk about can have the greatest effect.
And it fucking blows chodes that this comic's existence is barely acknowledged!

No no i understood like the whole comic book industry part but i didn't really understand the shit Wizardry and baby maxi
Is it supposed to be about how comics are shit? Like the entire idea is just shit? And that superman would most likely be evil if he was real and would be weaponized?

Like I said iirc it was mostly Veitch being himself since he loved that kind of shit. However, there is probably a few layers of criticism that I'm missing right now, like Maxi's nemesis is a guy covered in bat shit and he is based on the biggest DC hero, a publishing house that is literally named after the first Batman comic.

Maximortal is so powerful cause he's full of shit and immune to AIDS

I thought he was meant to be a fucked up mirror of Captain America.

The Boys has the comentary about Military industries selling worst equipament (product) and dont getting punished because political lobby.

Also has the commentary that celebrits are lieyng useless people that think they are better and are used by corporations to tell whats is true and moral.

both things where scraped by AMAZON The Boys.

The whole thing is an edgy critique on sidekicks

Opposite, it was a critique on the industry becoming darker and grittier.

Why bother? The commentary in Brat Pack isn't remotely relevant in the modern day. The classic idea of the superhero sidekick is dead. Robin is better known for leading the Titans than being Batman's protege. The death of Jason Todd is better known as prologue for the Red Hood arc. There are more recent and relevant parodies and deconstructions being adapted.

If anything I'd want to see a more traditional superhero comic like the Teen Titans deconstruct the deconstruction.

It's not an issue of political climate, it's a matter of political/social context. Brat Pack was written in the 1990, when Teen Titans was a hugely popular book and in the middle of the grimy era of superheroes like dark knight returns and watchmen (not to mention at the tail end of Thatcher/Reaganism,) none of what it has to say maps to the state of the medium or the current culture, at least not 1/1.

Modern Brat Pack as adaptation would just be the boys tv show, from what I understand the boys is already getting something similar anyway.

just finished it recently. That was a lot of edge just to say that capeshit is schlock

Remember this came out in 1990. Supergirl had just died, then been written out of continuity. They'd just murdered Robin and crippled Batgirl. Black Canary was kidnapped and tortured till she became infertile. I'm sure there was more shit I'm forgetting. It was hyperbole, but it wasn't that big a stretch.

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They would turn Mink into a good guy cause they dont wanna show evil fags as pedophiles

I honestly believe I'd lose hope in humanity. Mink is every gay joke in all the worst ways about Batman. That just gay but having sex with his robin, who costume is basically a fuck me suit.

If you did want to do the joke right it'd probably be captain sunshine from venture brothers.

There's absolutely nothing salvageable about him and turning him into a sudden good guy is like saying I don't know how little Billy got monkey pox.

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