The Comic Book Film Adaptation – A panel discussion with Tom Brevoort, Joe Kelly, Michael E. Uslan, and Mark Waid Why have more comic book film adaptations been produced since the year 2000 than any other time in film history, and what impact are these adaptations having on their respective industries? These questions were the focus of my 2015 book The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre, published by the University Press of Mississippi. To develop this study it was essential that I interview creators and artists from both sides of the adaptation divide. At the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con I brought some of those industry professionals together to continue discussions from the book. Hosted by the academic forum the Comics Arts Conference, the panel, titled The Comic Book Film Adaptation, was held on Friday, July 10. Fig. 1 The Comic Book Film Adaptation: Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre, published by The University Press of Mississippi in 2015, examines the post-2000 trend in comic-book movies. The panellists were each uniquely placed to comment on the many debates raised by the popular trend in comic book film adaptation production. As a comic book writer, Joe Kelly has worked on X-Men, Superman, and Deadpool. He is one of the founders of the transmedia creative studio Man of Action, and also adapted his own Action Comics story, “What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?” as the DC Animated Universe movie Superman vs. The Elite (Chang 2012). Kelly is currently adapting his award-winning graphic novel I Kill Giants as a feature film. Michael E Uslan is the originator and executive producer of the Batman film franchise. A long time Batman fan, Uslan helped Hollywood realise that comics were an ideal source material for blockbuster movies, a journey he recounts in his memoir The Boy Who Loved Batman. Mark Waid has more than thirty years’ experience in the comic book industry as a writer, an editor and a publisher. His collaboration with Alex Ross, Kingdom Come, is one of the best-selling graphic novels of all time. Recently he spearheaded the Archie Comics revival, began writing the historical fiction series Strange Fruit for Boom!, and is the writer on Marvel’s Avengers series. In the final stages of the panel, the conversation was joined by Tom Brevoort. Starting out as a college intern, Brevoort rose through the ranks of Marvel Comics to become Senior Vice President of Publishing.