One of our favorite features over at Comics2Film, aside from their constant Watchmen movie updates that we plunder on a weekly basis to feed our sick obsession with the doomed Zack Snyder adaptation, is "The Elevator." Essentially, it's the online version of a pitch meeting: they invite small-press comics creators onto the site to explain why their particular property is worthy of being greenlit for a big-screen adaptation. Of course, since Comics2Film is just a glorified fansite and not an actual Hollywood studio, nothing ever comes of the Elevator pitches, but it's a fun little distraction (this week's features Thomas Boatwright, creator of the charming and visually inventive Cemetery Blues), and the stripped-down format actually resembles a real pitch meeting a lot more than you might think. The downside of the comics having almost zero chance of ever hitting the big screen is compensated for by the upside of the website's writers never calling the comics artist a fucking asshole and telling him he'll never work in this town again all because he got hold of some bad coke for breakfast.
An archive of past Elevator entries can be found here.
