The Black Hole — third time’s the charm?

Jim Hill says Disney is thinking of re-making The Black Hole (1979) — but first, to test the waters, they’re thinking of releasing a brand new graphic-novel adaptation of the original film.

Hill goes on to suggest that what comic-book fans might really want is not a new graphic novel, but a collection of the Sunday strips that were drawn back then by comic-book legend Jack Kirby, whose serialization of The Black Hole was apparently the only movie adaptation of his career:

I had never heard of Kirby’s adaptation before, but I must say that the two panels above look better than just about anything in the magazine-sized Golden comic book that I have had for nearly 30 years, now. Here is how it depicts the scene depicted above:

So, if Disney commissions yet another comic-book adaptation of this film, will the third time be the charm, then?

And does this film really have that big of a cult following?