Comic Book Adaptation?

[Carol]

"EdT.S" wrote:
>
> Aside from the usual hello, I'm new to this group, I wanted to jump
> right in bringing up this idea:
> 
> With the novels done and the final movie slated for 2010, I've been
> wondering if Warner or Rowling will try to keep the franchise alive
> afterwards, the encyclopedia notwithstanding since that's no project
> dates set on that yet.
> 
> When considering how the comic book medium has evolved beyond the
> scope of "just another superhero comic" in the past (Neil Gaiman's
> Sandman, being the prime example), I'd like to see a proper adaptation
> of the Potter series in comic book form, with most of the subplots
> intact.  Warner can make it happen since they own DC Comics, but are
> they the ideal company to undertake the project? <snip>

Carol responds:
I know nothing about comic books. It seems to me that the ideal medium
for a new version of the HP series is television, which could present
the chapters in a chronological sequence, with the child actors
maturing naturally, and with much more detail and fidelity to the
books than film, which must be trimmed so drastically. Imagine a TV
series with 26 episodes per year, each fifty-minute episode (leaving
room for commercials and credits) covering between one and three
chapters of the books, with one or two books per year, depending on
the length of the book (or half a book per year for GoF through DH).
The casting of the adults could fit their ages (which weren't known at
the time the first film was cast) and the changes and omissions in the
film scripts could be eliminated (with some rethinking of the books to
suit them to a visual medium, but with more consideration for future
plot developments and fidelity to the story as it appears on the
printed page). (No Muggle clothes or shrunken heads, please. And let
Flitwick look like Book!Flitwick, please.)

Carol, who thinks that copyright ownership will be the primary
consideration in whether the books appear in any other medium, which
may not happen until her encyclopedia comes out