Growing up, comic books can become a big part of a young man’s life. As that young man grows older, multiple things can replace comic books.

With many of the Hollywood studios turning most of those comic books into movies, those comic book collections might be replaced with DVD’s. But this trend has not dwindled.

As the summer movie season is just around the corner, three comic book-to-big-screen movies are set to come out, but is it too much?

Directors have made a new Batman movie, “The Dark Knight” to play as a sequel to “Batman Begins.”

I remember when I was a child; Michael Keaton played Batman, yet still the original Batman movies of the 1960s are still being aired on TV. “The Dark Knight” is set for release July 18.

“Iron Man” is the first movie released of what could be a series. As I have seen over the past 10 years, any movie is subject to a sequel.

While I do not know much about the Iron Man, many readers are assured that filmmakers will be unable to tell the character’s entire story in one movie. “Iron Man” is set for release May 2.

One movie that has been re-released time after time is “The Incredible Hulk.” Originally released before I can recall, and then remade recently with Eric Bana playing Bruce Banner (the lead character).

The newest installment of “The Incredible Hulk” stars Edward Norton as Banner. “The Incredible Hulk” is set for release June 13.

While I have become disgusted with movie companies releasing film after film with no apparent discourse, many of the comic book series that are made into movies do need more than one installment to get the story across.

“Spiderman,” “X-Men,” “Superman” and “The Fantastic Four” are examples of movies that cannot tell an entire story in just one film.

With the Spiderman movie series already on No. 3, it is unlikely producers will stop there.

As an avid reader of X-Men comics, I am not satisfied with just three movies being released. Filmmakers did an amazing job in bringing some of my favorite characters to the big screen and I was amazed when some recent research produced two more X-Men movies.

Both set for release in Summer 2009, these movies revolve around pivotal characters in the X-Men series; Wolverine and Magneto.

The Superman series seems like a never-ending saga. With a current running TV show in “Smallville” and multiple movies already coming out of the comic book, there is one last comic I am looking forward to; when Superman dies.

No, I am not a Superman hater, but everything must come to an end.

Many of these movie studios will run out of ideas sooner or later, as the idea well is running dry.

I would love to see what these filmmakers could do with an endless supply of comic books, but I know as well as anyone else that it might not happen like we want it.

Regardless, be aware of these movies on the horizon. With movie season approaching, it should be fun to see how these comic book characters are portrayed.