An adaptation can take even the most obscure comic and catapult it to mainstream pop culture. The Walking Dead, The Boys, and Wynonna Earp are all great examples of this, but there are plenty you may not have even known were based on comics, like Ryan Murphy’s gonzo Hulu miniseries The Beauty or M. Night Shyamalan’s Old.
Netflix, especially, adapts little-known comics all the time, bringing them to a brand new medium and a brand new audience. The Umbrella Academy, Heartstopper, and Sandman may all be massively popular Netflix series, but first they were just comics. Now, the streamer is bringing another little-known comic to life, a fantasy epic with an oddly wholesome twist.
