Actually, most of my DC favorites are cut down in their prime...

Manhunter (Mark Shaw)
Hawk and Dove
Starman (Will Payton - okay, yes, he got 40-some issues)
Aztek
Takion
That one Mr. Miracle that only went 7 issues.

I liked Slingers. When it came out, it was the only Marvel book I bought. In fact, it was the first Marvel book I bought (I mostly read, well, whatever wasn't Marvel), and I didn't buy another Marvel book for years afterward. I have nothing but fond memories of the book and was annoyed when it was canceled after only 12 issues. I've actually looked for a complete run of the book every once in a while, but haven't found it yet. If I do find the complete run somewhere, I'll probably buy it.

So there.

What a bunch of wasted potential that book was--I only stuck with it till the end because they got Sean Phillips to do some issues.

(And people complain about the Omega Flight situation. The Brotherhood was a 12-issue series that immediately became an ongoing and was then cancelled at #9.)

But since then, I've come back around to a realization I had -- and should've kept by -- a year or two back. It's a simple one, really:

Not every comic book should be to my taste; if every comic book is, something is wrong with the industry.

No healthy entertainment or creative industry is in goo shape if it can't cater to widely different tastes. There should be comics I love, comics I hate, and comics I have no interest in trying. Because someone else will feel differently about the latter two categories, there need to be books in those subjective categories.

Immanuel Kant was dead on when he pointed out that everyone makes judgements of tase as if their judgments were universal and universally comprehensible and agreeable. But to me, that means being on guard a bit more

One of the best responses I've ever seen on a comics message board involved a new poster asking if "Book X" was a good comic. Amid all the summary sentences about why it was pure crap or solid gold, one person -- just one -- took the tactic of askign what books the new guy already liked. And then he talked about how Book X was or wasn't different than the stuff on that list. It was probably the most helpful way of responding to the question, and very liekly the healthiest.

Oh well, enough of my hippie crap. It's back to slagging comics for me.

Let's just not go there.

Dan

And you’re analysis is actually wrong. It was pastiche for fun’s sake."

I'm glad Nextwave got cancelled.
Maybe it'll stop people talking like this, or linking to pictures of MODOK Elvis' and thinking it's funny.

I'm glad Manhunter got cancelled as well.
It was trying too hard and I just couldn't get into it.
It felt like a little kid dressing up as a gangster and expecting you to take them seriously.

There you go, two books I don't like for two different reasons get cancelled.
Who says it isn't a good time to be a comic fan?

Ricochet: Burned-out loser in Runaways and The Loners.

Prodigy: Summarily thrown into Superhero Guantanamo, started crying for his Mommy.

Dusk has never appeared again, and as it turns out, she got off light."

The point is that they were already boring and lame. You can't go downhill in a valley.

I'm all for this. As long as it's something frivolous, like Manhunter. Not a matter of vital life-altering importance, like Big Barda or Kid Colt: Outlaw.

"What? Something you didn't like happened? Something that made you really unhappy happened, and you're going online hoping that bitching in the company of like-minded people will give you some catharsis?

You are a whining naive brain-damaged idiot, and I hope you die in a fire. Look how much smarter and cooler than you I am for pointing this out! See how much better my taste in comics is!"

The only this could be better is if there was some way to deliver simultaneous electric shocks to everyone upset about Manhunter. Perhaps high-intensity enough to cause muscle spasms! That'd give those fanboys some real problems to whine about.

Because, you know, if you've ever complained online about anything? That's obviously the only thing in your life that was ever important to you! It can't be, say, a time-killing trifle you enjoy while dealing with life's bigger problems.

Ha! Like comics fans have bigger problems!

Note: I actually didn't like the Manhunter book much at all, and I'll be even more pleased when the character is out of circulation, too.

Oh, no?

Hornet: Killed by a brainwashed Wolverine, mistaken for Spider-Man by a retarded SHIELD agent.

Ricochet: Burned-out loser in Runaways and The Loners.

Prodigy: Summarily thrown into Superhero Guantanamo, started crying for his Mommy.

Dusk has never appeared again, and as it turns out, she got off light.

Which are still more interesting than real pancakes.

And you're analysis is actually wrong. It was pastiche for fun's sake.

Actually, it's even dumber than that, because at least Munch is still played by the same actor, so there's still some of the same talent involved.

(in fact doesn't SVU have some of the same writers as H:LOTS?)

We are talking about a fictional character!

Being written and drawn by completely different people!

Bummed out by the death of Will Eisner? Well, it's okay because Darwin Cooke is drawing the Spirit now! Hey, fans of Photon/Captain Marvel, Liefield's X-Force, and Machine Man- read NEXTWAVE! IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME THING AND YOU'LL LOVE IT!

(For the record, I like Cooke's version of the Spirit so far, and Nextwave is the best Marvel comic for 30 years, but that's beside the point)

Sorry for the rant, especially as (*ahem*) I've never read Manhunter or Birds Of Prey, but the idea of following characters rather than specific comics and their creators really bugs the hell out of me. I thought we got over that in the 90's.