This week the Pals have a special guest! Norrie Millar from the Dundee Comics Creative Space and Inkpot Studio from Dundee, Scotland! Norrie enlightens the rest of the Pals with a little bit of Scottish comics history, the struggles of being a serious artist, and the first issue of his book SNOWBOUND! Then, the five of them get busy discussing the benefits of comics adaptations and which ones are their favorites. Plus: What happened to Phil? The Philspiracy continues...

What're We Reading?

Interview with Norrie

Apples and Origins

News:

The First Trailer for Thor: Ragnarok!:

https://goo.gl/YSiSMq

X-Men: Gold Artist Fired From the Book!:

https://goo.gl/RlYFBr

The First Trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi!:

https://goo.gl/gpfdpo

Josh Brolin Cast as Cable in Deadpool 2!:

https://goo.gl/BMpT81

Watchmen to Get a Rated R Animated Adaptation!:

https://goo.gl/BbhWEs

Main Topic:

Direct comic book to film adaptations! From the Watchmen film (and now the animated version) to The Killing Joke and Logan, comic book films that attempt to recreate a particular story from the comics on the big screen are all the rage these days. How important is it that the film studios stay as closely as possible to the source material in order to tell these stories? Is a good adaptation simply a slave to the source material, or can it still be good if the story is modified for modern audiences - or for the different medium it's being presented in? We'll talk about all that, plus the most - and least - successful comic to film adaptations of all time.

Follow Norrie on twitter: @PrehistoricFrog

Check out SNOWBOUND: http://www.comichaus.com/comics/snowbound/203251.htm

Plugs:

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