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Knight Rider is another series that would seem to be a no-brainer for a comic.

Wasn’t there a Quantum Leap comic?

Yeah, there was a Quantum Leap comic, but I mean “Buffy Season 8 style,” which is that you get someone from the show and make these “official continuation of the story” comics.

In fact, what’s Donald Bellisario doing nowadays since Mark Harmon’s power move ousted him from NCIS?

Immediate Thought: “wait, wasn’t Quantum Leap already a comic?”

http://milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=list&title=66306129220&snumber=1

I knew I wasn’t nuts - I remember seeing this at some point in the distant past.

(I agree that it would work, as you could do all the stories that you’d always wish they’d do on the show but that they never had the budget to do. On the other hand, Quantum Leap was almost as episodic as Law and Order, so you’d lose the “continuation of the story” aspect that I understand people who care about Buffy buy the comic for.)

1. Farscape. There can never be enough Michael Crichton and the gang. Plus they need to rescue and save Dargo because i refuse to believe that he could be dead!

2. Firefly. Yes there are a few Firefly comic book series already. Yes they, for the most part, suck. There are a million and six stories that could continue to be told about theat gang and I don’t even think they specifically need Joss to do it. Tim Minear, Ben Edlund or even better a combination of both would be perfect to continue the adventures of the crew of Serentiy.

3. Invisible Man (the SciFi series). Boy I loved that show and there were a host of stories that could have continued to be told.

4. Wonderfalls. It’s hugely obscure but it was also an incredible television series cancelled before it even aired its 12 complete 12 episode run. Wonderful world building that could easily be continued.

5. Jericho. Cancelled JUST when I started to find it interesting

6. Jeremiah. Again, cancelled after it’s most interesting season. Once Sean Astin showed up the storytelling gelled into a cohesive season arc and I want to know more about what happened to the characers.

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darn! I forgot to sign my comment! The one above that starts off with Farscape is mine.

Certainly, this is a fine idea for a piece.

I’ve participated in a similar discussion once before (hopefully not here). The gist was that comic books would provide an excellent way to wrap up cancelled TV series, giving the loyal fans some sort of closure. Series that I remember discussing were:
1. Now and Again (no, not Once and Again). This great series ended on a cliffhanger that I would love to see resolved.
2. John Doe (another cliffhanger)
3. Threshold
4. The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
5. Dark Skies

There’s probably a dozen more than I’m not thinking of. But I’ve always thought it was pretty lame that those series that ended on cliffhangers never did anything to help out loyal fans. Heck, just post the script online somewhere. it’s a terrible message to send — I know I’ve thought twice about “getting involved” with TV series because I assumed they’d be cancelled. Kinda sounds like “waiting for the trade,” doesn’t it?

But if they published a series resolution as a comic, at least they might make some cash off it. And if it generated enough interest, then make it an ongoing.

Man, Brian, I am completely with you on Quantam Leap. I’ve been rewatching the series lately, and I want more.

And ladypeyton, I’m right there with you on Wonderfalls. Bryan Fuller’s forgotten work. I would love to see more.

And I know there was talk of it, but it seems to have fizzled, so let me put in my vote for a Veronica Mars comic. There was a lot left to tell there.

Oops. It was here. Well, good discussions should get revisited from time to time.

Golden girls, duh.

I’d buy a Quantum Leap comic tomorrow if they put one out.

I’m with you on Twilight Zone and Jack of All Trades or, for that matter, Brisco County Jr. (can’t get enough Bruce Campbell!). Alias could be interesting, although I lost interest in the show by the 3rd season.

I’ll throw out these, too:
1. The A-Team (as long as they ignore the last season)
2. Strange Luck
3. Sci-fi’s The Invisible Man
4. Legend (essentially a drunk MacGuyver in the Old West…a brilliant show from UPN’s early years)
5. She-Wolf of London/Love and Curses

Also…last I heard, BOOM Studios is doing a Farscape comic.

It would be great if the creators of early-cancelled series would turn to comics to continue or at least finish up their storylines. Here’s a few, off the top of my head:

1. Deadwood - given the success (in quality, if not in sales) of Scalped, Jonah Hex, and Loveless, I think this could be done well.
2. Carnivale - the main reason for the cancellation of this series, which I found to be wonderfully dark and strange, was out-of-control budgets. Comics fix that problem easily.
3. Dead Like Me - Bryan Fuller got screwed by Showtime on this one. Great dark humour that would translate well onto the page.

I’m sure there’s more, but it’s hot out and I need a beer.

Brisco County Jr.
Quantum Leap
Twin Peaks!!
Dungeons & Dragons cartoon [w/ Mark Evanier!]

The Tick. The cartoon version, that is. Hell, I’d even settle for the live action series, anything but the comic series, which has been run into the ground by bland “creators” and the perpetual albatross that is Edlund’s refusal to sit down and finish that goddamn last issue.

I know there was a mini series and those Kirby pages but I’d like to see an ongoing series based on The Prisoner. I’d set it before Number Six resigned and focus on the Village itself.

I don’t know if anyone remembers a cartoon called Undergrads but it would be perfectly suited for a comic.

Twin Peaks would be a GODSEND!

How about SPACE-Above and Beyond

1. Anything with Bruce Campbell, because Bruce Campbell = sales.

2. Magnum, PI. Yeah!!!

3. Lookwell - Yes, the failed pilot written by Conan O’Brien and starring Adam West as a silly private eye.

Nice to see someone else enjoyed Wonderfalls as much as I did. I don’t know if it’d make for a good comic series, though.

Twin Peaks would be a GODSEND!

Wouldn’t that require the plot of Twin Peaks to actually be a coherent narrative, as oppose to stuff that David Lynch was just making up on the fly?

I’d like to see another season, in comics or whatever, of Earth 2, but that’s just me.

5. Veronica Mars.
4. Enos.
3. Remington Steele.
2. The Avengers. (again, again!)
1. Manimal

Bryan Long: Just to let you know if you’re curious about it, the creators of John Doe actually went into pretty good detail about what the secret behind the series was. Wikipedia’s got most of the details from various interviews collected, and they’re cited so you can be sure it’s not just some Wikipedia user sticking their fanfic into the article.

I’d buy a Brisco comic like that. You can’t tell, because this is text-based, but I just snapped my fingers.

Remembering this one involves crossing an ocean and going around 30 years back, but a retelling of Blake’s Seven would be more relevant today than when it was first aired: rebels deemed terrorists by a oppressive Federation, intent on hunting them down before they bring “civilization” crashing down around them.

@ Ladypeyton :

“Jeremiah. Again, cancelled after it’s most interesting season. Once Sean Astin showed up the storytelling gelled into a cohesive season arc and I want to know more about what happened to the characers.”

Jeremiah IS a comic book! The TV series was an adaptation from the french comic book of the same name , drawn and written by Hermann. If it’s available in english, you might want to check it out, it is excellent. I have not seen the TV adaptation, although from what i read about it, it’s quite a departure from the comic.

1. Sapphire and Steel
2. Space: !999
3. The Adventures of Pete and Pete (oh, c’mon, tell me that wouldn’t be awesome!)
4. Brimstone
5. Sheep in the Big City (hey, I’d buy it!)

Dark Angel.

party of five.

you want to see the salinger family’s trials as much as i do.

of even freaks and geeks.
and man from u.n.c.l.e.

Not just TV series, but a lot of entertainment franchises. How can there not be a market for Pirates of the Caribbean comics? (Interestingly, I’m told by people who really would know that Disney’s new comics company is looking into that possibility.)

As for TV, I would totally buy mature, sophisticated, adult Looney Tunes comics based on the ORIGINAL Looney Tunes shows. And I don’t mean “mature, sophisticated, adult” in the porn sense. I mean that the original Looney Tunes shows were very classy, funny, interesting slapstick humor, and I’d appreciate it if some day, a modern iteration of LT would live up to that. I think modern comics could provide that venue.

“The Tick. The cartoon version, that is. Hell, I’d even settle for the live action series, anything but the comic series, which has been run into the ground by bland “creators” and the perpetual albatross that is Edlund’s refusal to sit down and finish that goddamn last issue.”–I think the comics have been just fine, it’s just the animated version was so much better. But how, exactly, would you translate that to comics? Just get the animators to draw it and the writers to write it? I don’t suspect that could happen.

Heat Vision and Jack, if unpicked pilots count.

1. Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).

2. Sliders if they ignore seasons 3-5.

I seem to recall that Quantum Leap was resolved in the last episode, but I could be wrong.

Didn’t they try continuing Quantum Leap in paperback books? I don’t recall them being very good.

Still, a comic could work if they ditch the whole “oh, you are never going home” angle.

Also:

Sliders - the show got really lame near the end, but there’s always potential in the concept.

Jericho - Agree with the person who picked this above. This property NEEDS to be continued.

Carnivale - Another pick from someone above who got it dead on. This weird show needs more time to iron out the wrinkles.

Red Dwarf - WHY nobody has done this (at least to my knowledge) I don’t know. It would ROCK.

you are.

I do, in fact, remember “Undergrads.” I was just thinking about it today and planning to see if I actually own DVDs of it, or just imagined that.

Threshold and Brisco County are both big yeses. And so’s John Doe - take those notes and turn them in to a comic!

How about the old, obscure UPN show “Nowhere Man.” A photojournalist takes a picture he wasn’t supposed to, and the shadowy evil powers-that-be set out to screw him to the wall. Basically, he’s out at dinner with his wife, goes to the bathroom, and when he comes back she has no idea who he is…

“Nowhere Man” would rock, yo re go!

I read a weird suggestion on another board, although they were talking about continuing series in novels and not comic books. “Joan of Arcadia”. Which while it had some lame teen-isms also had a weird mythological/supernatural uber-plot they never resolved.

We were just talking about this subject, and how “Twin Peaks” would be great. We’d finally get the cliffhanger resolution!

…and as for David Lynch making it up as he goes along, that reminds me of some other comic creator I’ve heard about… Chris something… had a big run in the 80’s. Not sure if you know who I’m talking about.

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You may not remember it, but I’d nominate “Fantastic Journey.”

It didn’t last very long, but it was about a group of people stranded on some mysterious island where time was all wonky, which, you have to admit, is a pretty cool concept. Why nobody has ever picked that idea up and run with it I’ll never know.

Which show was Jack of Hearts? If you mean the one where Bruce Campbell was a secret agent sent to an island by Thomas Jefferson and occasionally dressed like a super-hero, it was actually called Jack of All Trades.

How about VR.5, the virtual reality thriller from Fox?? The show had just started to make sense when they pulled it, and it features Anthony Head basically playing Giles (but more of a badass version) about two years before Buffy started.

Also would love to see the return of Millennium in comic form. Possibly the scariest tv show ever…

Also in no particular order:

Nowhere Man
Twin Peaks
Veronica Mars
The Prisoner (DC did a very forgettable mini-series back in the 80’s)
Homicide: Life on the Street

I agree with most of these! I think somewhat of a “reboot” starting at season 3 of Sliders would be awesome! I would also add Harsh Realm and (short-lived ABC series) Invasion.

Firefly. Sometimes I weep for knowing there will never be a two-hour season finale rumble against the Blue Gloves (instead, we got the supremely anticlimactic Those Left Behind). The point is, a comic series that would actually do something with all the mythology they had built instead of just making up excuses for River to stab stuff (the movie was fun, but still can’t replace an ongoing series) would be fantastic.