The Spirit

Another great comic adapted to film. Only the director is none other than Frank Miller, famed comic book creator and now popular film director. It's interesting that the visual style of the film is similar to Sin City, one of his comic books adapted earlier. I believe this is how Miller wants all his comics to be: surreal in between the boundaries of film and comics.

The Spirit made by legendary comic artist, Will Eisner, who is the leading role on making comic books or graphic novels into literature form through his published work "A Contract with God". Without Eisner, the greatest works of comic book fiction would never be thought seriously. Books like Blankets, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, 300, Sin City, and many more critically acclaimed graphic novels would never appear.

Originally created in 1940, The Spirit was mainly not aiming towards children but adults as well. In the midst between newspapers where they compete with Superhero comics, Eisner instead created a new breed of Superhero.

The story itself does not fit into one genre. Like Batman, the Spirit is a masked vigilante and a detective, which falls to crime dramas or noir but there is lightheartedness in the frachise and you might read a few romances and adventure.

Frank Miller changed the costume from blue to black and red to fit it in to look like a film noir. A clever approach to a comical character. Check the trailers below.

"My City. I cannot deny her. My city screams. She is my mother, she is my lover, and I am her Spirit."



"You're in love with every woman you meet, Mr Spirit. You say lovely things to all of us. And you mean everything you say."