The Decade's Best and Worst Graphic Novel Adaptations

The Worst

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

It's rumored Alan Moore bought up all the known DVD copies of this film in existence, and uses the covers as bathroom tissue. We may never know if that's true (OK -- I just completely made it up), but one viewing of this steampunk-for-retards version of his 1999 comic series is enough to consider its validity, and to question ever attempting to adapt one of his works for the big screen ever again. I have a feeling he'd be just fine with that.

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Whiteout (2009)

It seems kind of cruel to pounce on a movie that shat the igloo as hard as Whiteout did at the box office ($10.2 million to date), but Dominic Sena's stalker-on-ice adaptation of Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber's comic series managed to be both ploddingly predictable and utterly incomprehensible. Useful only when thrown into a highball glass and doused in expensive bourbon.

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