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They died too soon

 
  

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DaveBCooper
15:31 / 24.08.05
I think Halo Jones was meant to be seven books of ten episodes each – Ian Gibson joked that Alan Moore was thinking of the Titan Books reprint fees. But the third one does finish it off rather nicely.

Major Bummer was fun, with both solid story and art, shame that was axed. And I second the Helfer/Baker Shadow thing, though I think in an issue of something later (Instant Piano, maybe?), Kyle said he wasn’t keen on it, or summat on those lines. Always throws me into a state of confusion when I like something but one of those responsible for it is reportedly lukewarm.
 
 
Haus of Mystery
21:13 / 24.08.05
I so wanted to read the never to appear 'Nuts & Bolts' storyline...
 
 
Ganesh
21:55 / 24.08.05
Big Numbers...

Yep. And even Lost Girls looked like it might have potential (once one got past the atrocious artwork). I guess the Beardster got the 'fictional characters getting together' thing out of his system with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen instead.
 
 
Juan_Arteaga
22:14 / 24.08.05
I think Lost Girls is still coming out in some unknown point in the future via TopShelf.
 
 
Abraxas
05:00 / 25.08.05
Scarab

Firearm (when James Robinson is good he really shines!)

Xombi (it took me a while to get over the artwork but John Rozum really pulled out all the stops on this one)

Seekers into the Mystery (ever read that "on the ledge" column telling us what else J.M. would have had in store for us?)

Paradigm
 
 
Haus of Mystery
08:34 / 25.08.05
Although it was a willful decision by the creators as opposed to poor sales, James Robinson and Paul Smith's rather wonderful Leave it to Chance dissappeared before I'd had my fill. A nice attemept to do an all-ages comic that actually tried to appeal to girls as much as boys, it was a fun 'Nancy Drew/Buffy' comic with an endearing lead, cheesy bad guys and beautiful understated art from Smith. It appeared in the rebirth of fun colourful comics (Morrison's JLA, Waid's Flash, Alan Moore's ABC, Astro City etc..), a time I will always remember fondly.
 
 
Ganesh
10:26 / 25.08.05
I think Lost Girls is still coming out in some unknown point in the future via TopShelf.

Oh, that's good. I liked the overall idea of Lost Girls, and thought it might transcend the scrappy artwork in time.
 
 
_Boboss
11:00 / 25.08.05
ah lost girls, the look on dad's face when he realised what i'd spent the christmas 'get yourself some comics' cash on... 'don't let your mum see it'. i'll be up for a bit of that when it comes oot, i like tha art, appropriately periodic, baroque, beardsleyesque etc.

on with the thread:

zoids, morrison and yeowell team up to put another squad of hombres on planet zoidstar, and then, oh, that's all.

aaand that's about it.. i think i'm most likely an early ship-jumper rather than a die-hard collectomatron.
 
 
Ganesh
11:02 / 25.08.05
i like tha art, appropriately periodic, baroque, beardsleyesque etc.

Agreed - but inappropriately badly-executed.
 
 
Lord Morgue
11:21 / 25.08.05
Paul Chadwick's The World Below.
Jack Kirby's O.M.A.C.
Major Bummer.
D.R. and Quinch.
Damage Control.
Skrull Kill Krew.
Sachs and Violens.
Spartan X.
Omega the Unknown.
The Tick.
Badger.
The Chainsaw Vigilante.
Freak Force.

I'm just one of those people, everything I like gets cancelled. I feel like that guy from Crisis on Infinite Earths...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
12:04 / 25.08.05
More Baker Street would be nice, too.

And- not technically cancelled, I guess, because of its structure, but I reckon the time is right for a couple of new Zombie World minis.
 
 
Sekhmet
13:44 / 25.08.05
Does Seaguy count as cancelled, or just discontinued?
 
 
imaginary friend on the phone
14:35 / 25.08.05
Kirby's O.M.A.C. cranks it up to 11. I fondly recall such concepts as the elderly highjacking teenager's bodies and robot girlfriends stuffed into boxes. And yet somehow the One Man Army Corps can always find the solution by beating the crap out of everything around him. Nothing like Jack when he forgets to take his medicine.
 
 
CameronStewart
14:59 / 25.08.05
>>>Does Seaguy count as cancelled, or just discontinued?<<<

Either way, it's still an unfinished story that's unlikely to see its conclusion anytime soon.

 
 
Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo
16:34 / 25.08.05
I think of ALL of Kirby's projects at DC, other than Kamandi, as ones that died too soon. Each book was Kirby drawing whatever came into his head, and most fo the time you'd read the comic drawn in by the art and ideas and think about it about an hour later to discover that the plot didn't make a lick of sense.
 
 
Billuccho!
19:10 / 25.08.05
Hell yes. Kirby's 70's stuff was maybe the only worthwhile 70's comic stuff in the mainstream. If only he'd got to finish the Fourth World saga...
 
  

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