Comments on: EW Sneak Peek at the X-Files #0 Comic

By: Lord Paradise

Lord Paradise — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:11:13 +0000

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.

By: MJ

MJ — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:46:57 +0000

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.

By: GC

GC — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:20:54 +0000

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

By: Craig M.

Craig M. — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:58:10 +0000

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.

By: Melton

Melton — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:56:08 +0000

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.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:11:54 +0000

Salvage 1

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:33:31 +0000

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.

By: Spiffy

Spiffy — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:52:25 +0000

"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.

By: yo go re

yo go re — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:42:12 +0000

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...

By: Spiffy

Spiffy — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:36:43 +0000

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.

By: Dan K

Dan K — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:06:07 +0000

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.

By: JG

JG — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:50:10 +0000

Heat Vision and Jack, if unpicked pilots count.

By: Jono11

Jono11 — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:38:29 +0000

"The Tick. The cartoon version, that is. Hell, Iâ€™d even settle for the live action series, anything but the comic series, which has been run into the ground by bland â€œcreatorsâ€ and the perpetual albatross that is Edlundâ€™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.

By: Jono11

Jono11 — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:35:04 +0000

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.

By: edc

edc — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:31:05 +0000

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

By: edc

edc — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:28:59 +0000

party of five.

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:50:36 +0000

Dark Angel.

By: Vincent Paul Bartilucci

Vincent Paul Bartilucci — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:22:26 +0000

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!)

By: Ã‡teve!

Ã‡teve! — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:08:53 +0000

@ Ladypeyton :

"Jeremiah. Again, cancelled after itâ€™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.

By: Gumbo North

Gumbo North — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:59:14 +0000

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.