Comics based on other media: S&D

At one end of a not-very-useful spectrum, you've got your original G.I. Joe and Transformers, comics based on toys ... but surprisingly good comics at times. At the other end you have Classics Illustrated, P. Craig Russell doing Wagner, and whoever it was who adapted Paul Auster's City of Glass.

In between, everything from the many Conan and Star Wars comics to Star Trek/X-Men and Batman/Aliens to CSI.

Off the top of my head, Search:

Star Wars: Dark Empire is one of the few "novel-length" Star Wars series I've liked (to be fair I haven't read many others), and I liked Marvel's SW comics when I was a kid. The Jabba the Hutt one-shots were a lot of fun in a somewhat goofy way. The Infinities series have been fun, what I've read of them (they're "what if"s for Star Wars). That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern one was great, although it could have been more ambitious.

Uncle Scrooge, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories: do these count? If so, damn; the best of them are up there with the best of comics.

G.I. Joe, both the best of the original and the new series (the scattered issues I've read of it, at least).

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Origin, which retells the movie in terms of the TV show's continuity and does a decent job of it.

The Essential Conan, from Marvel. (I'm not going to count Tomb of Dracula as adaptation, I think that's pushing it, but the Marvel Conans were at least occasionally based on the original stories, and didn't involve a reinterpretation/reconfiguration of the work the way ToD did.)

Destroy:

Most of Dark Horse's Star Wars comics other than those listed above have left me cold. All the stuff dealing with the distant past fails to capture the appeal of the setting for me, and there is always something weird -- this is true for Buffy as well -- about comics drawings of real people.

Sectaurs. Why on Earth did I get my mother to buy this for me that time when I had the flu?

Classic Illustrated: the House of Seven Gables. It was very very boring.

The Raven, which I probably still have somewhere around here, which was the prestige format thing that was just Poe's poem and mediocre gothy drawings. I don't know if KSP published it, but they sold it, and I always suspected they were hoping people would buy it thinking it was The Crow.

None of the comics based on roleplaying games have ever been good, as far as I can tell. Tomb Raider didn't seem terrible, but didn't seem good enough to merit its hugely-bestselling first issue, either.