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[Penguin]

It's also kinda amazing that the biggest show on TV is a comic book adaptation.

You have stuff like Daredevil KILLING IT on Netflix, and as far as I know Arrow and Flash are doing very well also.

The demand is very clearly there and doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Millennials grew up watching Batman, Spider-Man, Superman and X-Men cartoons every week. They can keep up, and enjoy, a bunch of TV shows and 6 or so movies a year.

The Big Bang Theory is a comic adaption?

 

[More_Badass]

My wife complains about how many super hero movies there are, then I remind her that she watches nothing but horror movies. At least a dozen each year. When she's not watching horror movies she's watching ghost shows of which there are many.

Really, in relation to other genres there is not an inordinate amount of super hero content. I mean, how many cop/lawyer/doctors shows are there right now?

Exactly

In the grand scheme of movies and shows, superhero movies/shows are a tiny subsection. The only reason it seems like so much is due to the marketing and the endless media coverage.

5,6,7 Marvel/DC movies in a year? Compared to the many hundreds of action, horror, dramas, comedies, big budget blockbusters and indies? That's a drop in the bucket

Netflix alone has 31 new original series coming this year. So suddenly those 64 comic book shows isn't that much in comparison to the sheer amount of show across streaming services and cable/network channelsho

 

[Slayven]

And there have already been some real disasters and everything seems fine.

 

[Langdon Alger]

As long as they are good I am ok with that. And also there is a huuuuuuuge difference between a show like the Walking Dead, the future Preacher series, and Daredevil or even that new Lucifer series, so you can't really say "Really? Another comic TV show? Why? They are all the same"

They're all a type of fantasy (in that they all have magic). None of them are realistic.

 

[Penguin]

I also think this points out something folks seem to gloss over, mostly on the TV side, comic book TV shows are a very specialized niche.

You have The Walking Dead then you take a STEEP decline in overall viewers.

Like the top-end stuff gets maybe 6-7 million on a good week. While most of them fall in the 2-4 range.

 

[f0lken]

They're all a type of fantasy (in that they all have magic). None of them are realistic.

Lots of non-comic based show aren't realistic and people don´t go "LOL another book based movie-tv show" when they see Game of Thrones. Also they are "realistic" comic based shows or movies (mainly movies) like From Hell, A history of violence, Road to perdition that feel less like fantasy than a show like Breaking Bad for example (Talking in terms of "grounded" properties"

 

[More_Badass]

Lots of non-comic based show aren't realistic and people don´t go "LOL another book based movie-tv show" when they see Game of Thrones. Also they are "realistic" comic based shows or movies (mainly movies) like From Hell, A history of violence, Road to perdition that feel less like fantasy than a show like Breaking Bad for example

Honestly there are way more shows based on books than there are shows based on comics. Dexter, Boardwalk Empire, Sherlock, Justified, Orange is the New Black, Hannibal, Turn, Sex and the City, Homicide in the 90s, AMC's upcoming show The Terror...all based on books.

 

[Metalmarc]

It's fantastic, everything I could have wished for as a youngster, but now I'm an adult, still now it means I can see everyone of them if I so wish, some are so violent that my parents would have never let me see them when I was a kid.

Also there's so much varsity out there and coming, think of how many great Story's that haven't been adapted on T.V or Movies yet.


There's literally hundreds of comic on the shelf when I go to a shop, why not have them on Screen?

My girlfriend moans about it sometimes, then I remind her of how many soaps she watches there's like at least 5 or more daily spaps on here in the UK, and then she watches the reruns too.

 

[Abounder]

After Thanos and Darkseid, most definitely. 'Overload' already happened with box office king Spidey who got rebooted 3 times in ~10 years, and lost his own cinematic universe in the process. MCU can keep things fresh with new heroes

Still waiting on a good F4

 

[Evil's Bane]

I feel like loading all Superhero stuff into the same genre is kind of a mistake. It's all pretty different from one another and its not like everyone is watching all of it. People are picking and choosing. I'm hooked on the MCU but at the same time after the last couple of DC films have discouraged me from watching all or even most of those. On the flip side I know people who are tired of marvel/were never that big on it and eager for more DC.