Legacy Comix owner and Old School Gamer Magazine Senior Writer Patrick Hickey Jr. shares his thoughts on five great comic book franchises that would make amazing video games.
The Maxx: The art alone in this comic lends itself beautifully to the video game world. Add in the dialogue and setting and it has the blueprint of a 00s Rockstar classic.
Youngblood: A squad-based superhero game, powered by Rob Liefeld art? Yeah. Sign us up.
Dominic Fortune: A 70s spy-espionage game with a tongue-in-cheek story? Yes, please.
Sam and Twitch: Max Payne meets Spawn and a story written by Brian Michael Bendis? This would get a ton of buzz.
The Goon: If you’ve read Eric Powell’s amazing comic, imagine it as an open-world beat-em-up.
Patrick Hickey, Jr., is the founder and editor-in-chief of ReviewFix.com and a lecturer of English and journalism at Kingsborough Community College, in Brooklyn, New York. Over the past decade, his video game coverage has been featured in national ad campaigns by top publishers the likes of Nintendo, Deep Silver, Disney and EA Sports. His book series, "The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult and Classic Game Developers," from McFarland and Company, has earned praise from Forbes, Huffington Post, The New York Daily News and MSG Networks. He is also a former editor at NBC and National Video Games Writer at the late-Examiner.com
