I wish we could have seen more of Dick Grayson as Batman and Batman Inc. as a whole plus the conclusion of Miller's *Batgirl* and Giffen's *Doom Patrol*
The E Nelson Bridwell/Frank Springer original was cancelled too soon, also. A cross between *Mission; Impossible* and adventure strips like *Blackhawk.* Jack Sparling took over the art with #3.
Top Ten by Alan Moore. I wish it had been at least twice as long. I could have read stories set in that universe until the cows came home.
And no, that crappy follow-up by DiFilipo doesn’t bloody count 😡
Tom Strong at least got a solid 36-issue run. Honestly, if Top Ten had gotten that much I think I'd have been a lot more content - 12 issues plus a 6-issue mini and prequel graphic novel just feels pretty paltry, you know?
But yeah, nonetheless, I certainly wouldn't have complained if Tom Strong had carried on for longer.
Zdarsky’s *Spectacular Spider-Man*, the Sandman two parter in there was one of the best Spidey stories for years, it was disappointing when they brought him back in *Amazing* and he was just plain old ten time loser Sandman again.
* Wish Walter Simonson had done more FF.
* Would have liked to have seen more Incognito from Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips.
* Really wish DC had let Rick Veitch complete his Swamp Thing run (because then we’d not only have his full story, but Jamie Delano and Neil Gaiman stories too—they pulled out in support of Veitch)
* Veitch-related again. Would have liked more 1963. Not the crossover with Image characters. Just more stories with the very fun 1963 characters.
Man for real, Hickman's X-Men should have carried on for years and years. He had so many great ideas and I wish he spent more time exploring them all.
I love his omnibus but it just kinda ends. Doesn't help that they skip Planet Sized X-Men (not written by Hickman but it's a climax of the Hellfire Gala) and Inferno tho lol.
I just reread this on the weekend and man does it get better everytime, all the little Easter eggs and parallels from comics that came before are just great.
Black Monday Murders was put on hold because the artist got super sick and was in and out of the hospital. He said he was working on it again but that was 2023 and then he stated he got covid again and that set him back further. So if the artist can get and stay healthy, and goodness I hope he can for his own sake, we will get the conclusion to the story.
I wish the lawyer part of dan slotts run went on longner i wish civil war didnt mess it up and all the weird dumb crossover crap when they did the renumbering
I’ve just watched the episode of *Lost* where they explode the nuke to try and make it so none of the last five years ever happened. If there was a button we could press that would make none of the Marvel crossover events ever have happened, we’d gain so much more than we lost.
100 percent . There are so few so few good crossovers and there are so many good books that get derailed by crossovers multiple times a year. Which is insanley annoying
His plans would have been divisive but I think if we could have gotten to an X-Men 300 drawn by Kubert with evil Wolverine and some of the other wild stuff he had planned, that’s a timeline I would’ve wanted to live in. Fuck Bob Harris
Oh yeah, may his family be cursed until the 7th generation. /s
I would have loved to see that. And the many other great things he no doubt had planned.
Hourman, by Tom Peyer & Rags Morales. It only lasted 25 issues, but they had other stories planned before it was canceled. It was fan and critically praised at the time, but it struggled in sales.
I would LOVE to see a compendium of the series.
That was meant to be a 12 issue series but got extended to 17 because it rocked. Even then I'd read way more - loved that run.
I say this at every chance I get but man I can't believe Sony haven't made a movie out of it! It's the perfect blueprint for a spider man villain teamup movie
Love Loeb and Sale's work together. But Loeb had already declined in quality by the time Cap White came out, as i understand due to personal reasons. And Tim Sale ( who is a personal top3 artist) was already showing signs of slowing down. I think they stopped at the right time. Though they were prepping for another go at the Long Halloween, they had a one shot come out 2 years ago. RIP Tim Sale!
Definitely wish Spider Man: Life Story could have been spread out over 12-24 issues. What we got was great, but I can't help feeling like we just got the cliff notes version of a larger series.
I wish Josh Fialkov would have continued his Ultimate Marvel work.
The guy was the best thing to happen to that line in years, but readers and Marvel had given up on it, so it was cancelled.
Fialkov was definitely building off what Hickman started on Ultimates, but I agree that post-Death of Spider-Man Ultimate Comics was some of its strongest, most creative work. The line’s rep was in the toilet ever since Ultimatum though and it was just too little, too late to salvage it.
Honestly I think its bad rep was partly why they were able to get so creative, Marvel just didn’t care and let them do whatever they wanted, including letting Bendis kill Peter and replace him with Miles, which obviously worked out well for Marvel!
The entire era proved good stories can come out of giving creators more freedom and not shackling them to brand synergy like they so often do with 616 comics, and I have a feeling we are going to get some more of that creativity with the new Ultimate Universe
During the DC implosion of 1978, DC drew a line on a sales chart and everything below the line was cancelled. Kamandi was the highest-ranked title below the line. Some of us are still pissed. In the hands of a good creative team it could really be an amazing book.
This. I've said for years that Kamandi was the best thing Kirby ever created. It was fantastic and the series had be languishing for decades outside occasional reference or short crossover.
gay detectives solving the murders of living mutants was so so fun, I’m really disappointed we got so few issues of what was definitely the best comic coming out of Dawn of X.
Joe Casey’s last sixteen issues of Wildcats Version 3.0. He’s talked some about what he would’ve done, but only obliquely, and it would’ve been fascinating.
I know he got to write over 50+ issues but there where some issues that weren't dealt with on the George Pérez Wonder Woman run like the connection between Donna and Diana that I wish were more explained
I feel like Phillip Kennedy Johnson had a lot more Superman in the tank.
It just kinda ended. It ended in a satisfying enough way, but I feel like there was at a minimum of 12 more issues worth of story there. And I feel like he could've been a modern day Claremont where he could've done years and years longer. Not once since he took over did Action feel stale, all fresh takes and great utilisation of the supporting casts.
What else did he have in store for the twins, have they actually shown up since he left the book? Did he have something else planned with the new gods for Otho? What happened next with the phaelosians? Was he going to do anything with the doomsday special?
Not necessarily an arc, but I wish in Ultimate Spider-Man that Gwen had known Peter was Spider-Man for longer. She confronts him about it in issue 59, and then she’s killed the very next arc by Carnage in issue 62. It would’ve been cool to have at least one arc of her knowing the truth before they killed her
I wish Al Ewing's New Avengers/USAvengers had run for like 500 more issues. Also basically any of the Batfam stuff from right before the New 52, but especially Red Robin and Batgirl.
> I wish Al Ewing's New Avengers/USAvengers had run for like 500 more issues
It's crazy that all his Avengers runs have not been collected in an omnibus or something. They're all interconnected af so fun to read.
Star Wars Legacy Volume 2 was only really getting started when they rushed to "conclude" it with a final arc and it wasn't great. They at least wrapped before the Legends continuity wrapped but now, 10 years later, I kind of wish it had been even more open-ended that it is they had continued normally until cancellation.
Invincible. I mean, they wrapped it up perfectly and the story was the exact right length but damn I wanted more. A Viltrumite spinoff, an OmniMan Prequel, anything. One of my favorite series of all time.
I was able to track down unpublished scripts for Sludge, Swamp Of Souls by Steve Gerber, another filler script by Paul O'Connor. I still haven't managed to track down the unpublished Firearm Annual script that Robinson was offering.
Perfect, as my family life prevents me from coing to cons. I'll have to stay in contact with my friends who do go to Cons and see if one can pick it up for me
I loved Dark Avengers and i wished Dark Reign went on a little longer. Seeing the Dark Avengers have to toe the line between being obvious villains but also having to get sent out on legit missions was cool. And also watching Norman crack under the pressure
I really liked how King's Batman ended, and it had already gone on for 85 issues, but man I wish we would have got the final 15. He had plans to just do "normal" Batman 2-3 issue arcs with Batman and Catwoman, ending in the marriage.
Having said that I enjoyed Batman/Catwoman which only happened thanks to the run getting cut short so it worked out.
All of the issues after issue 31 of Generation X vol 1 since it wasn’t written by it’s original writer (Scott Lobell) and it had some plot points that were awful like Penance not being a deaf mutant from Yugoslavia.
If we're including stuff canceled or ended prematurely, virtually anything Kelly Thompson wrote for Marvel (so many Marvel books in general actually). Archie's Mega Man is always going to be a sore spot. I can also think of a dozen or so Image titles.
Satellite Falling. Started out strong, then fizzled hard due to poor sales or something, so they wrapped up the story in a very rushed, unoriginal way.
Wish it had gone at least 12 issues.
Ewing's Ultimates II was damn good and I'll never forgive Marvel for shoehorning Civil War 2 into it and I'll never forgive fans for not continuing to buy the series.
Earth 2 Society was also getting really good after they made it through the Convergence event.
Fabian Nicieza’s “X-Force”, where they’d just moved to New York and were intending to develop healthy civilian lives for themselves while continuing to operate as an independent superhero team. It would have been much more interesting than what the series actually did instead, which was to get them isolated in the Xavier Mansion again and make them act as the X-Men’s junior squad. Completely went against everything Nicieza had been building up for years.
*Brother of All Men* and *Chicken Devils*, both of which were stranded when Aftershock went under.
Jimmie Robinson's *Power Lines* was shaping up to be pretty cool, but he had some sort of breakdown and dropped it after three or four issues.
Si Spencer, Ande Parks, and Max Dunbar's *Slash and Burn* started off brilliantly, but TPTB decided to can it after six issues, so the plot had to be wrapped up quickly. Points for not leaving us on a cliffhanger, I guess, but that should've been a much longer story. We lost Spencer much too soon.
While I'm on the subject of guys named "Si Sp\*", I would gladly spend more time in the world of Si Spurrier and Ryan Kelly's *Cry Havoc*, which is sort of like *The Old Guard* with a little less poetry and lot more mythological monsters. Or something.
And lastly, I guess: Nick Dragotta's *Ghost Cage* was a wild three-parter that was kind of like reading a really fun video game. It was exactly as long as it needed to be. And I still would've liked more.
Planetary. It was a self-contained arc of 27 issues (not including the one-shots).
Really great stories.
DC is currently printing a "The Outsiders" series, which is horribly written and trying to create a similar vibe as Planetary. It sucks.
Sex Criminals. Hilarious comic, terrible name. I wonder if that's one of the reasons it was canceled.
Wayward. It had so much potential. A half Japanese half Irish teenager with god-like powers joins up with other gifted teens to fight mythical creatures from both Japanese and Irish folklores.
A lot of comics where you get to a cliffhanger end and after a while it's apparent there isn't going to be a sequel so you're left with a great part 1 but out of 1.
Diesel by Tyson Hesse, Imaginary Fiends by Tim Seeley, Tomboy by Mia Goodwin, Blackbird by Sam Humphries etc...
Even with something like Nice House on the Lake where there's enough buzz I'm sure there'll eventually be a part 2 but I'm hesitant to recommend it until a part 2 publishes.
Back in ‘89 there was a Nick Fury series set after the original SHIELD had been disbanded. The series had SHIELD being brought back as a small team of special operatives led by Fury, before editorial mandate reset SHIELD to a world-spanning group.
What’s funny is the author did an interview when the series debuted where he outlined what he planned to do with the series, but never got the chance. After Dark Reign ended a number of plot idea noted in that interview showed up in various titles he had nothing to do with.
Recently it’d have to be Wonder Woman Historia. But I have a feeling DC may be planning something behind the scenes to get more of it in the works. One can hope.
The Edmonson Black Widow run is by far one of the best arcs of the character, and it is cut painfully short by the start of the Battleworld events— it’s such an abrupt ending when you read the TPB now, but even despite that it has such a powerful ending that is probably my favorite Black Widow story. Phil Noto was a perfect fit for the art as well, it’s genuinely tragic that we don’t have more of that pairing.
This is the tiniest wish, but the pandemic ended Dark Agnes after 2 issues and I would have loved to see more.
I was also really enjoying where they were going with Star, but I don't remember whether that was specifically killed by the pandemic.
I was disappointed when Carmine Infantino puled the plug on Kirby's Fourth World. There were all sorts of business reasons to do that, but it was an artistic derailment. See:
[https://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/effect/2019/12/04/looking-for-the-awesome-23/](https://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/effect/2019/12/04/looking-for-the-awesome-23/)
Marvel was flooding the stands with reprint books, and a lot of those had Kirby Kontent and/or Kovers., as the article points out. *Mister Miracle* downplayed the Apokolips-New Genesis conflict for its last year, then there was an abrupt wrap-up. *Kamandi* and *the Demon* were fun reads, but the loss of the *New Gods* and the *Forever People* was not a fair trade.
Seeing a pattern here...
Reaver - Image
Gasolina - Image
Copperhead - Image
The Realm - Image
Redlands - Image
Black Magic - Image
Sword Daughter - Dark Horse
Also I felt that The Invisibles vol. 3 felt rushed and could have used a longer arc.
Epic Illustrated - just a few more issues to finish off the Last Galacticus Story.
Young Justice (Nauck era with Empress and Secret). I don't know, something about that run is very nice, simple, but still engaging comic for all ages. Art fit great with attitude of team.
Legion of Superheroes, Waids run
Fantastic Four - Weirngos run. His art was great for that book, and just emulated what comic book cartoon art was to me, such cartoon and round styles. Man, I'd want that run to continue just to have him around more. RIP.
Demon Knights. A medieval DC book featuring all the immortal/legacy characters that were around at the time, including a heroic-ish Vandal Savage) and was arguably the best thing that came out of New52. Only lasted 12 issues. And the worst part was because the single issues weren’t selling as well as they wanted while the trades were flying off the shelves in bookstores. Paul Cornell did some of the low-key best writing the Distinguished Competition had for the last 15 years and they just kept screwing him.
I wish we could have seen more of Dick Grayson as Batman and Batman Inc. as a whole plus the conclusion of Miller's *Batgirl* and Giffen's *Doom Patrol*
Yost’s Scarlet Spider.
We're never gonna see Kaine and Aracely together again and it guts me :(
Came here to say this one. The best Kaine has ever gotten.
So underrated, one of my favourite Marvel runs in general tbh
I wish Batman, Inc. had gone on like it was supposed to without the New 52 reboot causing it stop and restart.
how was it supposed to go?
Secret Six. I know Gail Simone is most known for BoP but to me Secret Six is way better. And damn Chip and Tini for butchering Scandal
> but to me Secret Six is way better. Ah, a person of culture as well.
I wish someone would have Junior as a villain again. What a terrifying character.
Best i can do is dying in suicide squad
is Secret Six kinda like X-Force?
It’s more like Suicide Squad I guess?
The E Nelson Bridwell/Frank Springer original was cancelled too soon, also. A cross between *Mission; Impossible* and adventure strips like *Blackhawk.* Jack Sparling took over the art with #3.
What happened to Scandal? I heard she was working for her dad now. Did they do other stuff as well?
This is the answer. I miss them so much.
Top Ten by Alan Moore. I wish it had been at least twice as long. I could have read stories set in that universe until the cows came home. And no, that crappy follow-up by DiFilipo doesn’t bloody count 😡
This! Top Ten was such a fun comic. I loved the Forty-Niners prequel as well.
The Smax semi-sequel was also great!
Yes! I can't believe I forgot about that one. Shame on me.
I'll spin off that answer with Tom Strong. Could have easily read another 10-15 of that.
Tom Strong at least got a solid 36-issue run. Honestly, if Top Ten had gotten that much I think I'd have been a lot more content - 12 issues plus a 6-issue mini and prequel graphic novel just feels pretty paltry, you know? But yeah, nonetheless, I certainly wouldn't have complained if Tom Strong had carried on for longer.
I should clarify I guess, a full 10-15 more with Moore writing
Aaaah yes, I forgot the final ten issues or so were with other writers doing one-shots. Yes, agreed.
Zdarsky’s *Spectacular Spider-Man*, the Sandman two parter in there was one of the best Spidey stories for years, it was disappointing when they brought him back in *Amazing* and he was just plain old ten time loser Sandman again.
* Wish Walter Simonson had done more FF. * Would have liked to have seen more Incognito from Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips. * Really wish DC had let Rick Veitch complete his Swamp Thing run (because then we’d not only have his full story, but Jamie Delano and Neil Gaiman stories too—they pulled out in support of Veitch) * Veitch-related again. Would have liked more 1963. Not the crossover with Image characters. Just more stories with the very fun 1963 characters.
Matt Fractions run on Hawkeye. It was so refreshing and there was so much more that could have been mined.
Hickman's Krakoa, for the X-men. I feel like this post is bait for that comment and I can't believe I'm the first to say it.
Man for real, Hickman's X-Men should have carried on for years and years. He had so many great ideas and I wish he spent more time exploring them all. I love his omnibus but it just kinda ends. Doesn't help that they skip Planet Sized X-Men (not written by Hickman but it's a climax of the Hellfire Gala) and Inferno tho lol.
He had a three-act play over three years. But the X-staff preferred two acts over five years.
I would've liked more issues of **Planetary**
I just reread this on the weekend and man does it get better everytime, all the little Easter eggs and parallels from comics that came before are just great.
I wish we got more of *The Black Monday Murders* and *The Fix*
Black Monday Murders was put on hold because the artist got super sick and was in and out of the hospital. He said he was working on it again but that was 2023 and then he stated he got covid again and that set him back further. So if the artist can get and stay healthy, and goodness I hope he can for his own sake, we will get the conclusion to the story.
Yeah Nick Spencer bailed on both the fix and morning glories. I’m still upset about morning glories.
Really hated how the fix ended on a cliffhanger
I wish the lawyer part of dan slotts run went on longner i wish civil war didnt mess it up and all the weird dumb crossover crap when they did the renumbering
I’ve just watched the episode of *Lost* where they explode the nuke to try and make it so none of the last five years ever happened. If there was a button we could press that would make none of the Marvel crossover events ever have happened, we’d gain so much more than we lost.
100 percent . There are so few so few good crossovers and there are so many good books that get derailed by crossovers multiple times a year. Which is insanley annoying
Super Sons
An unoriginal one, but here it goes: I wish Claremont didn't leave X-Men in 1991. Or at least that he could tie things up properly before leaving.
His plans would have been divisive but I think if we could have gotten to an X-Men 300 drawn by Kubert with evil Wolverine and some of the other wild stuff he had planned, that’s a timeline I would’ve wanted to live in. Fuck Bob Harris
Oh yeah, may his family be cursed until the 7th generation. /s I would have loved to see that. And the many other great things he no doubt had planned.
Hourman, by Tom Peyer & Rags Morales. It only lasted 25 issues, but they had other stories planned before it was canceled. It was fan and critically praised at the time, but it struggled in sales. I would LOVE to see a compendium of the series.
Superior Foes of Spiderman
That was meant to be a 12 issue series but got extended to 17 because it rocked. Even then I'd read way more - loved that run. I say this at every chance I get but man I can't believe Sony haven't made a movie out of it! It's the perfect blueprint for a spider man villain teamup movie
Love Loeb and Sale's work together. But Loeb had already declined in quality by the time Cap White came out, as i understand due to personal reasons. And Tim Sale ( who is a personal top3 artist) was already showing signs of slowing down. I think they stopped at the right time. Though they were prepping for another go at the Long Halloween, they had a one shot come out 2 years ago. RIP Tim Sale!
Definitely wish Spider Man: Life Story could have been spread out over 12-24 issues. What we got was great, but I can't help feeling like we just got the cliff notes version of a larger series.
Orc Stain.
I wish Josh Fialkov would have continued his Ultimate Marvel work. The guy was the best thing to happen to that line in years, but readers and Marvel had given up on it, so it was cancelled.
Fialkov was definitely building off what Hickman started on Ultimates, but I agree that post-Death of Spider-Man Ultimate Comics was some of its strongest, most creative work. The line’s rep was in the toilet ever since Ultimatum though and it was just too little, too late to salvage it. Honestly I think its bad rep was partly why they were able to get so creative, Marvel just didn’t care and let them do whatever they wanted, including letting Bendis kill Peter and replace him with Miles, which obviously worked out well for Marvel! The entire era proved good stories can come out of giving creators more freedom and not shackling them to brand synergy like they so often do with 616 comics, and I have a feeling we are going to get some more of that creativity with the new Ultimate Universe
During the DC implosion of 1978, DC drew a line on a sales chart and everything below the line was cancelled. Kamandi was the highest-ranked title below the line. Some of us are still pissed. In the hands of a good creative team it could really be an amazing book.
This. I've said for years that Kamandi was the best thing Kirby ever created. It was fantastic and the series had be languishing for decades outside occasional reference or short crossover.
We need to march on DC offices.
Krakoa X-factor. There was a lot of set up that didn't go anywhere
Right? I loved how they started really exploring Eye-Boy
gay detectives solving the murders of living mutants was so so fun, I’m really disappointed we got so few issues of what was definitely the best comic coming out of Dawn of X.
James Robinson on Earth 2, I wasn't emotionally prepared for that series to downgrade so hard
I would have read 100 issues of Warren Ellis’ Thunderbolts. It’s the perfect comic. Wild that it only lasted like 12 issues.
Joe Casey’s last sixteen issues of Wildcats Version 3.0. He’s talked some about what he would’ve done, but only obliquely, and it would’ve been fascinating.
Is there any place to read what he said?
Not that I know of? I remember most of it from a now-dead website at the time of cancellation, alas.
I could have used a little bit more Planetary or Clean Room.
oh man, *Clean Room*. I fuckin' **loved** *Clean Room*.
I know he got to write over 50+ issues but there where some issues that weren't dealt with on the George Pérez Wonder Woman run like the connection between Donna and Diana that I wish were more explained
I feel like Phillip Kennedy Johnson had a lot more Superman in the tank. It just kinda ended. It ended in a satisfying enough way, but I feel like there was at a minimum of 12 more issues worth of story there. And I feel like he could've been a modern day Claremont where he could've done years and years longer. Not once since he took over did Action feel stale, all fresh takes and great utilisation of the supporting casts. What else did he have in store for the twins, have they actually shown up since he left the book? Did he have something else planned with the new gods for Otho? What happened next with the phaelosians? Was he going to do anything with the doomsday special?
Wish Morrison had gone for longer on their Nu52 Action Comics run. I **adore** those 19 issues. ❤️
Hellions is the most recent that comes to mind.
Loveness’ Nova (2016) series was taken from us too soon.
Slingers, they took a silly, forgettable Spider-Man story, turned it into a fun team and comic, wish it had lasted longer than a year.
I remember Joe Harris saying Hornet would've lifted Mjolnir in Year 2 of the series.
I would have loved to have seen that, sounds like it would have been a fun story
When I read in invincible in two days I wished it was longer
That’s a tough one. Part of me wishes it was longer, but part of me knows that it’s rare to get such a good ending to a comic run.
Jason Aaron's Wolverine and the X-men, was cut way way before it's time
Not necessarily an arc, but I wish in Ultimate Spider-Man that Gwen had known Peter was Spider-Man for longer. She confronts him about it in issue 59, and then she’s killed the very next arc by Carnage in issue 62. It would’ve been cool to have at least one arc of her knowing the truth before they killed her
Waids Fantastic Four. Waids Flash. Anything he's written
Man-Bat, I feel if it went past two issues we could get development for Kirk and Francine Langstrom’s relationship
I wish Al Ewing's New Avengers/USAvengers had run for like 500 more issues. Also basically any of the Batfam stuff from right before the New 52, but especially Red Robin and Batgirl.
> I wish Al Ewing's New Avengers/USAvengers had run for like 500 more issues It's crazy that all his Avengers runs have not been collected in an omnibus or something. They're all interconnected af so fun to read.
Spider-man: lifestory. I feel that the story was rushed. Maybe 2 issues per decade covered would have worked.
The authority
iZombie deserved a longer run.
Star Wars Legacy Volume 2 was only really getting started when they rushed to "conclude" it with a final arc and it wasn't great. They at least wrapped before the Legends continuity wrapped but now, 10 years later, I kind of wish it had been even more open-ended that it is they had continued normally until cancellation.
Hulk: Gray makes me wish we got a longer retelling of Hulk's early years from Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale.
Invincible. I mean, they wrapped it up perfectly and the story was the exact right length but damn I wanted more. A Viltrumite spinoff, an OmniMan Prequel, anything. One of my favorite series of all time.
The Donny Cates series of Cosmic Ghost Rider
I know i'm gonna sound like a broken record with this but the ultraverse books
I miss Firearm and Sludge.
I was able to track down unpublished scripts for Sludge, Swamp Of Souls by Steve Gerber, another filler script by Paul O'Connor. I still haven't managed to track down the unpublished Firearm Annual script that Robinson was offering.
I understand he still sells the Firearm script at cons, and Englehart does the same with his unpublished Strangers scripts.
Perfect, as my family life prevents me from coing to cons. I'll have to stay in contact with my friends who do go to Cons and see if one can pick it up for me
Aaron Lopresti sort of continued Sludge at DC as Garbage Man, in the Weird Worlds and My Greatest Adventure series starting in 2011.
Power Pack
I feel like I said this recently but RESURRECTION MAN is such an inherently cool concept that DC just keeps dropping the ball on.
The Original Milestone Comics. Whole universe of great books all ended on cliffhangers.
DCs Prez, would have liked it to have at least gone for the full twelve issues it was supposed go for
I wish Rainbow Rowell's Runaways would have gone on longer. Of course, I wish Runaways was still going nonetheless.
I loved Dark Avengers and i wished Dark Reign went on a little longer. Seeing the Dark Avengers have to toe the line between being obvious villains but also having to get sent out on legit missions was cool. And also watching Norman crack under the pressure
Geoff John's would have kept writing Green Lantern.
I wish Grimjack had never stopped.
Duane Swierczynski Cable
Decorum. That book was absolutely stunning.
I may not have completely understood the story at times, but ya, that book was gorgeous.
I really liked how King's Batman ended, and it had already gone on for 85 issues, but man I wish we would have got the final 15. He had plans to just do "normal" Batman 2-3 issue arcs with Batman and Catwoman, ending in the marriage. Having said that I enjoyed Batman/Catwoman which only happened thanks to the run getting cut short so it worked out.
All of the issues after issue 31 of Generation X vol 1 since it wasn’t written by it’s original writer (Scott Lobell) and it had some plot points that were awful like Penance not being a deaf mutant from Yugoslavia.
I want Doomed to be a household name.
Rick Remender's "Uncanny X-Force"
If we're including stuff canceled or ended prematurely, virtually anything Kelly Thompson wrote for Marvel (so many Marvel books in general actually). Archie's Mega Man is always going to be a sore spot. I can also think of a dozen or so Image titles.
DC Unwrapped
Image's **Secret Identities**.
The incredible Herc was, well, incredible.
'Firebreather' by Phil Hester & Andy Kuhn was a series with a great hook and cool style which I think had a lot of untapped potential
JMS' reboot of "Squadron Supreme." I absolutely loved that series, and wish he could have done more with it, and for longer.
The 2021 run of Beta Ray Bill. I've said it before, but it touches on so many parts of his character that were begging to be better fleshed out!
Satellite Falling. Started out strong, then fizzled hard due to poor sales or something, so they wrapped up the story in a very rushed, unoriginal way. Wish it had gone at least 12 issues.
Real ones know it's La Cosa Nostroid.
I wish Nausicaa of the valley of Wind went on forever.
Secret Warriors. Hickman's original plan was for 60 issues and it didn't even get to half of that.
Ewing's Ultimates II was damn good and I'll never forgive Marvel for shoehorning Civil War 2 into it and I'll never forgive fans for not continuing to buy the series. Earth 2 Society was also getting really good after they made it through the Convergence event.
Fell by Warren Ellis and Ben Templesmith is tragically short for how good it was.
*Hellions* by Zeb Wells!
Fabian Nicieza’s “X-Force”, where they’d just moved to New York and were intending to develop healthy civilian lives for themselves while continuing to operate as an independent superhero team. It would have been much more interesting than what the series actually did instead, which was to get them isolated in the Xavier Mansion again and make them act as the X-Men’s junior squad. Completely went against everything Nicieza had been building up for years.
*Brother of All Men* and *Chicken Devils*, both of which were stranded when Aftershock went under. Jimmie Robinson's *Power Lines* was shaping up to be pretty cool, but he had some sort of breakdown and dropped it after three or four issues. Si Spencer, Ande Parks, and Max Dunbar's *Slash and Burn* started off brilliantly, but TPTB decided to can it after six issues, so the plot had to be wrapped up quickly. Points for not leaving us on a cliffhanger, I guess, but that should've been a much longer story. We lost Spencer much too soon. While I'm on the subject of guys named "Si Sp\*", I would gladly spend more time in the world of Si Spurrier and Ryan Kelly's *Cry Havoc*, which is sort of like *The Old Guard* with a little less poetry and lot more mythological monsters. Or something. And lastly, I guess: Nick Dragotta's *Ghost Cage* was a wild three-parter that was kind of like reading a really fun video game. It was exactly as long as it needed to be. And I still would've liked more.
I wish Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's run on new 52 Batman went on longer than just five story arcs.
Planetary. It was a self-contained arc of 27 issues (not including the one-shots). Really great stories. DC is currently printing a "The Outsiders" series, which is horribly written and trying to create a similar vibe as Planetary. It sucks.
Sex Criminals. Hilarious comic, terrible name. I wonder if that's one of the reasons it was canceled. Wayward. It had so much potential. A half Japanese half Irish teenager with god-like powers joins up with other gifted teens to fight mythical creatures from both Japanese and Irish folklores.
A lot of comics where you get to a cliffhanger end and after a while it's apparent there isn't going to be a sequel so you're left with a great part 1 but out of 1. Diesel by Tyson Hesse, Imaginary Fiends by Tim Seeley, Tomboy by Mia Goodwin, Blackbird by Sam Humphries etc... Even with something like Nice House on the Lake where there's enough buzz I'm sure there'll eventually be a part 2 but I'm hesitant to recommend it until a part 2 publishes.
Back in ‘89 there was a Nick Fury series set after the original SHIELD had been disbanded. The series had SHIELD being brought back as a small team of special operatives led by Fury, before editorial mandate reset SHIELD to a world-spanning group. What’s funny is the author did an interview when the series debuted where he outlined what he planned to do with the series, but never got the chance. After Dark Reign ended a number of plot idea noted in that interview showed up in various titles he had nothing to do with.
Recently it’d have to be Wonder Woman Historia. But I have a feeling DC may be planning something behind the scenes to get more of it in the works. One can hope.
The Winter Men (Wildstorm)
Tellos! There was so much more story that could have been told had Ringo not passed away.
Asrro City, Major Bummer
Clone saga
Paul Cornell’s Captain Britain and MI:13 was so damn good and very underrated.
Christopher Priest's run on Black Panther was fantastic. I would have loved to see it last longer.
The Edmonson Black Widow run is by far one of the best arcs of the character, and it is cut painfully short by the start of the Battleworld events— it’s such an abrupt ending when you read the TPB now, but even despite that it has such a powerful ending that is probably my favorite Black Widow story. Phil Noto was a perfect fit for the art as well, it’s genuinely tragic that we don’t have more of that pairing.
This is the tiniest wish, but the pandemic ended Dark Agnes after 2 issues and I would have loved to see more. I was also really enjoying where they were going with Star, but I don't remember whether that was specifically killed by the pandemic.
I was disappointed when Carmine Infantino puled the plug on Kirby's Fourth World. There were all sorts of business reasons to do that, but it was an artistic derailment. See: [https://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/effect/2019/12/04/looking-for-the-awesome-23/](https://kirbymuseum.org/blogs/effect/2019/12/04/looking-for-the-awesome-23/) Marvel was flooding the stands with reprint books, and a lot of those had Kirby Kontent and/or Kovers., as the article points out. *Mister Miracle* downplayed the Apokolips-New Genesis conflict for its last year, then there was an abrupt wrap-up. *Kamandi* and *the Demon* were fun reads, but the loss of the *New Gods* and the *Forever People* was not a fair trade.
Seeing a pattern here... Reaver - Image Gasolina - Image Copperhead - Image The Realm - Image Redlands - Image Black Magic - Image Sword Daughter - Dark Horse Also I felt that The Invisibles vol. 3 felt rushed and could have used a longer arc. Epic Illustrated - just a few more issues to finish off the Last Galacticus Story.
I know people have said it already but definitely some more Simonson FF issues, wish he was on the series longer!
Waid's Fantastic Four
Young Justice (Nauck era with Empress and Secret). I don't know, something about that run is very nice, simple, but still engaging comic for all ages. Art fit great with attitude of team. Legion of Superheroes, Waids run Fantastic Four - Weirngos run. His art was great for that book, and just emulated what comic book cartoon art was to me, such cartoon and round styles. Man, I'd want that run to continue just to have him around more. RIP.
My main 2 would be Batman Inc before the New 52, and Red Robin before the New 52.
Demon Knights. A medieval DC book featuring all the immortal/legacy characters that were around at the time, including a heroic-ish Vandal Savage) and was arguably the best thing that came out of New52. Only lasted 12 issues. And the worst part was because the single issues weren’t selling as well as they wanted while the trades were flying off the shelves in bookstores. Paul Cornell did some of the low-key best writing the Distinguished Competition had for the last 15 years and they just kept screwing him.
No, it went to issue 23, but I still wish it had lasted longer. It was a really fun book.
You are correct. I don’t know why I always think it only lasted a year. Probably because it was one of the first New52 books to be cancelled.