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A strange new power

Hollywood has embraced the comics superhero; witness the star-studded Scream Awards.

October 20, 2008|Geoff Boucher, Times Staff Writer

Perhaps, but in 1959 there were 26 westerns on American prime-time television and now there are none, which suggests that superhero saturation may have consequences down the road.

For the moment, though, there is no end in sight, and Gerard Way, lead singer of the rock band My Chemical Romance, said the sector would thrive not only because of its commercial viability but also because of the nature of its creative community right now. Way writes "The Umbrella Academy," an acclaimed graphic-novel series for Dark Horse Comics, which he says has been approved by Universal to be a film as soon as 2010.


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"The people that are making these movies are coming to it with a love of the comics and a respect for them, and I think that's why the fans are so passionate about these movies," Way said. "It comes down to the fact that for the first time, it's fans who are making these movies, and that makes all the difference in the world. It's not just capes that people like, it's watching movies made with great ideas and imagination. That's what makes them fly."

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geoff.boucher@latimes.com

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