Prior to shooting, producer Gary Foster said that in comparison to other comic book-based films before it, this film would be "more character-driven... darker... edgier," while Marvel Studios executive Kevin Feige felt the script was one of the strongest comic scripts Marvel had received.
Mark E Johnson, curator of the event, says: Leeds has always had a strong comics community, with three comic shops and events such as Leeds Alt Comics Fair and the world-class festival Thought Bubble.
None of that country's celebrated novelists -- J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, André Brink or, more recently, Zakes Mda -- have strong comic instincts.
Vulture says the show is being pitched as an hour-long police procedural with strong comic elements.
"We need a big kid at the back," he would prod his writers, meaning a strong comic finish.
They require a central idea that will give you endless material, strong comic talent, and a team of great writers.
The play's secondary romantic subplot, which takes up about as much stage time as the more celebrated story of the title, features some strong comic playing.
Usually, however, a truly successful sitcom requires its star to have a strong comic identity that shapes the humor and adds an original overlay to a familiar format.
Creator Shawn Ryan, with support from Murphy, is said to have pitched the show as an hour-long police procedural with strong comic elements.
There's one strong comic character after another in Joanna Neary's solo Fringe debut, which can feel like a one-woman Fast Show.
