SEX CRIMINALS Comic Book Gets TV Adaptation
The married team of Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick are two of the most exciting voices in comics right now, having done some really solid work on characters ranging from Hawkeye to Captain Marvel and beyond. Deadline reports that they've just signed a two year deal with Universal Television and one of the first projects they'll be developing into a TV series is Sex Criminals, Fraction's award-winning comic about a librarian and an actor who discover that they can freeze time when they orgasm, leading them to become bank robbers.
Sounds pretty crazy, right? I haven't yet read the comics myself, but I've heard nothing but great things, even from people who aren't hardcore comic book readers. And this could be only the tip of the iceberg. If we're looking only at comics created by Fractino and DeConnick, here are a few other options that might pan out into TV shows (descriptions via Image Comics):
Pretty Deadly: KELLY SUE DECONNICK (Avengers Assemble, Captain Marvel) & EMMA RÍOS (Dr. Strange, Osborn) reunite to bring you an all-new ongoing series that marries the magical realism of Sandman with the western brutality of Preacher. Death's daughter rides the wind on a horse made of smoke and her face bears the skull marks of her father. Her tale of retribution is as beautifully lush as it is unflinchingly savage.
ODY-C: An epic 26 centuries in the making: In the aftermath of a galactic war a hundred years long, Odyssia the Clever Champion and her compatriots begin their longest, strangest trip yet: the one home. A gender-bent eye-popping psychedelic science fiction odyssey begins HERE, by MATT FRACTION (CASANOVA, SEX CRIMINALS, SATELLITE SAM) and CHRISTIAN WARD (INFINITE VACATION, OLYMPUS).
Bitch Planet: 2014 Best Writer Eisner Award nominee KELLY SUE DeCONNICK (PRETTY DEADLY, Captain Marvel) and VALENTINE DE LANDRO (X-Factor) team up for the very third time to bring you the premiere issue of BITCH PLANET, their highly-anticipated women in- prison sci-fi exploitation riff. Think Margaret Atwood meets Inglourious Basterds.
Whoa. Hopefully some of these other projects come to light, but even if they don't, I'm psyched to see how Sex Criminals gets adapted. Hopefully it'll show up on HBO or a premium channel that doesn't shy away from nudity, since that seems to be a main aspect of the comics. What do you think? Have you read any of these comics before? Want to see them on the small screen?