ListNook

TurkeyVolumeGuesser Apr 17, 2026 +63

All aboard the Zane train, baybeeeee

63

BlasterShow Apr 19, 2026 +3

He’s a cool dude

3

TurkeyVolumeGuesser Apr 19, 2026 +3

That's why I listen to him

3

LTSpigot Apr 17, 2026 +3

How much will they change though? The original comic is about a White guy (and his descendents) dressing up as an immortal supernatural entity and basically becoming a paternalistic protector of some jungle tribes in a fictional African country. And they all think he is one of their gods (his costume is based on a tribal religious idol) and are kinda afraid of him so they listen to him. They'll obviously need to change a lot but if you have to do it to the point of it becoming unrecognizable, what's the point?

3

geek_of_nature Apr 18, 2026 +3

May they could downplay the whole protector/god thing, and play up them being afraid of him instead. That way hes not being praised as the only person who can save the Jungle.

3

TheCreativeComicFan Apr 17, 2026 +29

That’s amazing! Between this show and the *Buck Rogers* reboot that’s apparently in the works, I love that a lot of the older pulp heroes are getting back in the spotlight again. Kinda hoping that we get a new and more faithful live-action *Green Hornet* series along with reboots for *The Spirit* and *The Shadow* at some point.

29

Mr-Nanny Apr 17, 2026 +11

I loved The Shadow film as a 6 year old and had a couple action figures too. I doubt it did very well given the time but I am surprised there hasn’t been a reboot in the 30+ years since.

11

TheCreativeComicFan Apr 17, 2026 +6

Oh yeah, I have a soft spot for that movie and it made me a fan of the character after only hearing about him beforehand. Seeing how he (and the Green Hornet, among others) was the precursor to a cultural icon like Batman, you’d think that he’d be adapted much more frequently. But it’s been more difficult for some of the older pulp heroes to get back in the spotlight since some studios don’t seem to see a lot of value in them. But maybe this could be the start of change in that way of thinking with the right people involved. Would love to see The Shadow get a comeback, whether in live-action or animation and as a movie and/or TV series.

6

SmokinBandit28 Apr 17, 2026 +5

And then you have studios that do try to bring back pulp hero’s into the spotlight and you end up with the insanity that was The Spirit.

5

TheCreativeComicFan Apr 17, 2026 +5

Oh don’t remind me haha. Haven’t seen that film in a while, but just remember despising it. On one hand, it got me into The Spirit as a character because I couldn’t imagine that the comics could be as bad as the film (which they’re certainly not). But still, it’s not even so-bad-it’s-good, it’s infuriatingly bad in terms of its dialogue, plot and a number of bizarre directing/acting choices. Frank Miller should never be allowed to write or direct a film ever again. Would kill to see Brad Bird make the animated film version that he almost made years back.

5

AmeliaMangan Apr 18, 2026 +2

God, The Spirit is f****** *lunacy.* You know the podcast How Did This Get Made? Well, I genuinely do not know how this got made. (Or how HDTGM has, somehow, still not covered it.) Every five minutes, there's a new choice that just makes you ask, Why? Why the little hopping toe guy? Why Eva Mendes photocopying her ass? Why Samuel L. Jackson dressed up as a Nazi and ranting about eggs? Why the fight scene where they're throwing toilets at each other? Why the main character's repeated visions of Death as, essentially, Nomi Malone from Showgirls? *Why?* (And yet! Objectively awful as it is, I can't help but have a certain weird respect for it, just because it's so clearly the product of one deeply strange man's fevered imagination and not some marketing department somewhere. We'll *never* see another superhero film like it, not least because the film probably saw Frank Miller banned from every studio in town.)

2

bonafidehooligan Apr 17, 2026 +4

The Shadow is one of my guilty movie pleasures. It’s not a masterpiece by any means but it’s damn fun for me.

4

FX114 Apr 17, 2026 +3

The first scene after the prologue is still incredible. https://youtu.be/jZBwT3xkENY

3

Wazzoo1 Apr 17, 2026 +5

There's a million episodes of The Shadow as a radio drama out there to tide you over.

5

TheCreativeComicFan Apr 17, 2026 +4

Yes, listened to a few of them and enjoyed them a lot. Been meaning to check out more of the comics as well. I had read a one-shot a while ago called *The Shadow Over Innsmouth* in which The Shadow inspires H.P. Lovecraft to write the story of the same name. It was decent, all things considered.

4

internetpointsaredum Apr 18, 2026 +1

I'm just gonna put out there that the villains in the Buck Rogers XXVc rpg from the 80s were a coalition of Russian oligarchs and American tech-bros that had colonized Mars and created numerous genetically engineered slave races.

1

MinecraftTroller28 Apr 18, 2026 +1

Kevin Smith was working on a Green Hornet animated series for WildBrain, but it's been a very long time since we've heard anything about it.

1

minnick27 Apr 19, 2026 +2

His comics, based on his passed on movie script, were awesome. Unlike Seth Rogen, he actually understood and cared about the character. Rogen flat out said nobody remembered the Green Hornet so they could do whatever they wanted with it.

2

TheCreativeComicFan Apr 18, 2026 +1

Right, I remember hearing about that one also and it sounded interesting. Wondering if it was gonna be an adaptation of his comic (that one’s on my reading list) or a more traditional adaptation.

1

MinecraftTroller28 Apr 18, 2026 +1

I think the animated show was supposed to be all-ages, and if that's the case, then no way they're adapting his comic, at least 1:1.

1

TheCreativeComicFan Apr 18, 2026 +1

I see, then that would have also been interesting.

1

SupervillainMustache 4 days ago +1

You may be aware, but all of those characters and more crossed over in a comic called __Masks__.

1

TheCreativeComicFan 4 days ago +1

Yes, have been meaning to check out that series also. Is there a reading order involved in it? Like would I have needed to read the other solo series before reading *Masks*? Not that I wouldn’t want to of course but just to clarify.

1

SupervillainMustache 4 days ago +1

No, just start with Issue 1

1

CiriOh Apr 17, 2026 +15

Bring Xander Drax back.

15

promdates Apr 17, 2026 +6

Begins and ends in X....

6

Ankylar Apr 17, 2026 +13

Looking forward to this. I watched the Billy Zane movie in cinema when I was a kid. Even if it is cheesy and may not have aged well, I still love it.

13

Vangaelis Apr 18, 2026 +3

It has aged beautifully with its cheesyness

3

SummerDaemon 6 days ago +1

I saw alone in theatre on opening day. Still have the cool metal phantom ring they gave out.

1

Cunari Apr 17, 2026 +10

I wish it would be like an anthology show with some D*** Tracy and some the Shadow

10

minnick27 Apr 19, 2026 +1

There was also a character named The Avenger that I would love to see adapted. He had facial paralysis and could mold his face to look like anyone.

1

offthiscentury Apr 17, 2026 +1

Don’t forget Doc Savage!

1

_james_the_cat Apr 17, 2026 +10

Lord of the jungle, the hero who stalks. The beasts call him brother, the ghost who walks...(Phantom!)

10

LTSpigot Apr 17, 2026 +4

*Old Jungle Saying: The voice of the angry Phantom freezes a tiger's blood.

4

openletter8 Apr 17, 2026 +8

Revenge, like gazpacho soup, is a dish best served cold, precise, and merciless.

8

dasblitzspear Apr 17, 2026 +5

Yeah…you can never have enough precision in your soup…

5

Firvulag Apr 17, 2026 +6

Big day for Scandinavians

6

AmeliaMangan Apr 17, 2026 +3

Also Australians. (The Phantom is *huge* here, and always has been, even though he's an American creation - the reasons why have to do with 1940s reprint rights and are boring, but I've always found it wildly amusing that we've claimed, and raised to the status of cultural icon, a superhero that basically no other country in the world gives a f*** about, which is *entirely* in-character for us as a nation.)

3

Firvulag Apr 17, 2026 +5

Kinda feels the same here, in Norway new issues are still coming out. With crossovers and stuff with Norwegian noir detectives lol

5

MaxSchreckArt616 Apr 17, 2026 +11

If it isn't Billy Zane, then I don't want it.

11

divineshadow666 Apr 17, 2026 +9

He might be a little old to be the star, but Phantoms have a tendency to keep journals, so I could see him showing up in a flashback as a previous Phantom as the new one reads up on the legacy.

9

NeedsToShutUp Apr 17, 2026 +7

As the Phantom is an inherited role, Billy Zane should at least be the father/grandfather of the new Phantom.

7

LTSpigot Apr 17, 2026 +6

Would be cool if the first scene is Billy Zane as an aging Phantom in a fight and he just f****** dies.

6

tomservo88 Apr 17, 2026 +2

So…*a* thought I had is that this may be going in a different direction than Kit Walker. The recent Dynamite comics had an arc where Lothar became the Phantom; this coming from Hudlin, whose history these films that are legendary in the black community - *House Party*, *Boomerang*, *Bebe’s Kids*, *Great White Hype* - tells me that maybe they want to tell that end of the Phantom story, especially if so many people are married to the mental image of the “SLAM EVIL!” Phantom.

2

Luci-Noir Apr 17, 2026

The don’t watch it. JFC.

0

Kylestache Apr 17, 2026 +3

I hope the rest of the Guild of Calamitous Intent are present.

3

Aggressive_Noise6426 Apr 17, 2026 +3

Time to dust off my skull ring I got from 7/11!!!!

3

LogicalEgo Apr 17, 2026 +3

Please set it in the past and make it campy. Please.

3

Extension_Training87 5 days ago +1

They did that with wonder woman 84 and people still don't understand it's an 80s movie that was made and released today instead of back in the 80s. "Isn't this problematic? Why are people acting/dressing like this? The way the wishes work aren't the way real wishes work!!" Like jeez everyone!! It's supposed to be that time capsule for the period. The previous one was heavy in the world War and expressed that sentiment very much the same way. So......you and I will love it, as it gets review bombed for being exactly what it is and never pretending to be otherwise.

1

internetpointsaredum Apr 18, 2026 +3

Would be nice if this meant Phantom 2040 got a decent rerelease.

3

FarCryRedux Apr 18, 2026 +1

That would be amazing! I'm grateful the series is out there from VHS rips, but the audio quality is really rough.

1

internetpointsaredum Apr 18, 2026 +1

Even the version streaming on Pluto is pretty awful and has scan lines.

1

Conan-Da-Barbarian Apr 18, 2026 +3

Billy Zane reprising his role to pass it on? Fingers crossed

3

CocoaChoco Apr 17, 2026 +2

I have no opinion on this, just here to commiserate with my fellow peeps who were traumatized by that microscope scene in the Phantom movie. Because that movie, I had so much anxiety looking into a microscope in grade school lol.

2

leolegendario Apr 18, 2026 +1

Oh, so that's were that scene is from, the same happened to me, microscopes were so scary to me for a long time.

1

muad_dibs Apr 17, 2026 +1

I’m down for some Kitt Walker action.

1

AgentInkling99 Apr 17, 2026 +1

Yessss

1

coatimundos Apr 17, 2026 +1

For a second I thought it’s a “Phantom of the Opera” tv show.

1

Captain_Aceveda Apr 17, 2026 +1

I hope no one messes this up.

1

Robey-Wan_Kenobi Apr 17, 2026 +1

The problem with the Phantom is he lives in the remote jungle of a fictional African country. Kind of limits the storytelling potential.

1

LTSpigot Apr 17, 2026 +4

Nah, he goes out in the outside world all the time to help some friend or the other. He is still a well connected modern man. He wears a trenchcoat and a fedora in the streets lol Also, there are also accounts of historical phantoms where we follow some ancestor of him. I remember a story set in Norway where he helps the Norwegian royal family fight off some Neo Vikings.

4

Robey-Wan_Kenobi Apr 18, 2026 +1

I stand corrected. Thanks.

1

TheMetabaronIV Apr 18, 2026 +1

Make a Doc Savage show!

1

Doc-11th Apr 17, 2026 +1

guessing they will make him black to avoid the white savior stuff or maybe make it a passing of the torch

1

Pravi_Jaran Apr 17, 2026 +1

"Defenders of the Earth! Defenders!" Anyone? I memba! It's kind of shocking that we have yet to see a Flash Gordon reboot after the success of movies such as Thor Ragnarok.

1

Admiral_Furskin Apr 17, 2026

Why?

0

‘The Phantom’ Live-Action TV Series in the Works From Filmmaker Reginald Hudlin, King Features

💬 Send a Message

66 Comments