In the comics the plague wiped out every living mammal with a Y chromosome, even fetuses. I don't remember if they explicitly talked about intersex, but if you have a Y chromosome, BANG, you're dead.
Yeah, when it comes to most of the non-superhero comics and graphic novels, long form is the way to go. But then I tend to think the same way about a lot of literary novel adaptations. Historically the rub has always been that it takes a movie budget to be able to do these stories justice without looking cheap, though often at the expense of a lot of the depth and nuance that made the story worth adapting in the first place. Thankfully that gap has been getting narrower and narrower over the last decade. Now we're finally at the point where small-screen shows can be done at movie scale, filling the niche once held by the now practically extinct mid-budget high concept movies.
Are they still working on the DMZ TV series? I remember one being announced, but I don't think we've heard anything about it in a while.
Sounds like a feminist dream this.
This may seem like a random example, but what made it really stand out for me was the movie version of 'The Time Traveller's Wife'. I surprisingly really enjoyed the book, despite supernatural romances not usually being to my taste (yes it's time travel, but there's no science fiction to be found here outside of the broad concept of causality, so it's very much a supernatural thing.) Maybe it's just well written because I breezed through it in a weekend, so when the movie was announced I was actually looking forward to it...and it was *fine*, I suppose. OK performances. The basic plot was there...but there was clearly something missing.
