Patrick Stewart's obviously too old, but several years back, he did say that he wanted to do it (because he's a fan).
Stewart comes across as being a very cool guy; he likes Beavis & Butthead and Aliens as well.

I've read parts of Concrete (not the whole thing) - it wobbled a bit finding its feet, but it is excellent, and unique.

I read about 4 months back of Tom Cruise's production company picking up Brubaker's wonderful Sleeper.
Ugh, now there's a story you know would get disemboweled before it ever got near a camera.

Preacher oft gets mentioned as an adaptation, but really, wouldn't it wind up being a meek little shadow of the comicbook. There's no way they'd get away with some (actually, most) of the stuff that goes on in that comic. Even on HBO.

Ivory tinkler. She tinkles the ivories. It means she's a pianist.

Reservation Road? Where Winslet and DiCaprio play disaffected native americans? She wants to go on a vision quest; he's busy working for the casino. Ultimately there's heartbreak, and then one them gets eaten by a bear.
I'm not saying which.

DOA is actually almost watchable (at least from a guys perspective). It seems to be having some fun, and the action was more or less competent.

Vapidity and Smallville surely go hand in hand though? If a girl who actually had a personality were forced to play Lana Lang, she'd probably top herself after half a season.

@ Jorge
I think the most restraint I've seen from Ennis the issue of Hitman where Superman fails to save the shuttle mission. It was pretty touching.

Hellboy is visually magnificent, but some of the storytelling (especially early on) is really primitive. I'm a fan… but I don't know that it's a great jump on. Sandman seems a better choice, or even Alan Moore's Swamp Thing run.

@ Raindog

@ Raindog,

Denisof's really rubbing it in now. First he marries Hannigan, and now he's impregnated her… the total bastard.

I found an original hardback collection of Watchmen (the Graffitti Graphics one from 1986 I think) about 10 years ago, though I cherished that mostly because it meant I could now have a copy of it that didn't self-destruct if you tried to read it twice (unlike the paperback).

I suspect Summer Glau and her can of mace are going to be very busy on this comment thread.

Fringe isn't back on in the UK yet, but yeah, it seems to really be picking up after a not particularly stellar first 4 or 5 episodes. If I were a busier man, I probably wouldn't have stayed the course.

It was Sale. Very good comic, but maybe not enough action to be deemed a jumping on point.
I'd argue that All Star isn't a perfect jump on point either; I think some of the storytelling is kinda bitty, with some of the jumps a bit jarring and confusing.

I read Watchmen fairly early on in my return to comics. I'd read them as a kid, but the continuous cross-over continuity drove me away to entertainments less driven by extorsion.
I liked Watchmen a lot, even that first time, but I didn't really get its masterpiece status until the second read.

Does anyone actually believe that LOTR was really a huge gamble? I know New Line like to big themselves up about how ballsy they were, but Jackson doing those movies on the back of Heavenly Creatures and The Frighteners seemed like a bit of a home run to me right from the moment it was announced.

I don't know what that "e)." thing at the end is. I'm not trying to emote or anything.