Comics Adaptions in Review

In honor of the release of SPIDER-MAN 3, Rottentomatoes.com, the Web compendium of movie-critical mass, lists the 100 best-reviewed comic adaptations of all time ("best" being, of course, a relative term when you discuss movies at the bottom.) The list ranges from "Son of the Mask" and "Elektra" at the bottom of the barrel to "American Splendor" and "Spider-Man 2" at the top. The lesson: A good comic-book adaptation, like a good book adaptation, must be, first and foremost, a good movie.