  The 5 Most Hilariously Misguided Comic Book Adaptations  Nerds
like to complain when their favorite comics get adapted to
movies or TV and turned to shit, usually with good reason. But
we rarely think about all of the far more ridiculous adaptations
that go the other way -- comics that get slapped together with
the intention of cashing in on a movie, game, etc. by people who
had no goddamned idea what they were doing. We're talking about
the madness of ...  #5. The Marvel Star Wars Comics Written
Before the Writers Saw the Movie  In the '70s, Marvel Comics
published the first comic based on Star Wars, but they had to
start making it before the first movie was out, meaning that
they hadn't even seen the thing they were supposed to be
adapting. The results were predictably insane.  For instance, in
the early issues, all they had to go on was the script for the
film, which, as we've mentioned before, originally included a
scene with Jabba the Hutt. Only it didn't really describe what
he looked like (they would