This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

When you're a comic book fan, there's always a surge of excitement when they announce a film adaptation of the character you love. The chance to see your hero punch and twist and leap through the air just makes you giddy.

But there's always that fear that Hollywood is going to screw it up, that the screenwriter won't get the character

the way you get the character, because you know how it's supposed to be.

You know Mary Jane came after Gwen Stacy. It doesn't make sense the other way. But the first

indication whether you're going to be buzzing with eager anticipation while you're in line

on opening day or dreading each step while you're in line on opening day because

let's face it you're going to go no matter what.

But that first indication of how good or how bad it's going to be happens months before when they reveal the design of the suit.

Superhero suits made real with real fabric and real people are very hard to design,

but we will judge them nonetheless. That is our job.

Either I've gotten much more mellow over the years or the suits have gotten much, much better.

Eric Milinsky has noticed this too.

Eric has done a couple of great episodes for us at 99PI over the years, but now he has his own

podcast called Imaginary Worlds about sci-fi and other fantasy genres, how we create these worlds, and why we suspend our disbelief.

This is an episode that he produced in 2015 about designing comic book costumes for movie screens,

and I really like it and I know that you're going to like it too.

It's called Fixing the Hobo suit. Bain.

And for some reason, he did the voice as a cross between Sean Connery and Darth Vader.

Given that the character was supposed to come from a fictional Latin American country. It was a very weird choice.

Oh, you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark?

But it was so weird. It was kind of amazing and led to all these really

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