Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterLast September, HBO’s “Watchmen” made television history as the first-ever comic book adaptation to win a major Emmy award, taking home best limited series.
The accolade pierced a half-century of industry snobbery over superhero TV shows, dating all the way back to the “Adventures of Superman” series from the 1950s.On Tuesday, comic book adaptations made an even more heroic showing at the Emmy Awards, with 39 nominations across six series.
Some — including Netflix’s “The Umbrella Academy” and “Lucifer,” and HBO Max’s “Doom Patrol” — were purely for below-the-line categories (costumes, cinematography, sound editing) in which genre shows have traditionally fared well.
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