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Post by brianf on Oct 24, 2019 11:53:11 GMT -5
The unfinished PunX by Giffen in the mid-90s drove me nuts with the final issue never coming out. I don't even remember if I loved the first issues all that much, but I did like it enough to want to get that fourth issue, and I thought it was just getting delayed longer and longer. I didn't know that much about the industry - my only news source was that free Comic Shop News newsprint thing. I never considered the possibility that Valiant would put out three issues and never bother with the final one. I eventually concluded that I must have missed it when it came out and so started hunting it in back-issue bins. There was a 4th issue, well a "special" - Punx Manga Special (1996) #1 |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2019 12:21:06 GMT -5
I probably should have been clear that I was aware of the special being published, but the fourth issue of the miniseries never came out. I was just saying that in the context of this thread, the final issue of the miniseries is missing. I'm pretty sure the manga special was a stand-alone, and not in any way a replacement for issue four of the four-issue miniseries.
I wasn't so concerned about finishing the story (which was just a vehicle for jokey observations about comics, which I'm sure surprises no-one who saw the name Giffen in my first post) as I was about feeling like the universe was punking me by keeping that "surely they published it by now" fourth issue out of my hands.
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Post by profh0011 on Oct 24, 2019 12:49:32 GMT -5
I wouldn't say "screwed it over", because that implies a certain degree of malice or at least callous disregard.
I don't recall right now what Gerber did with Bloodstone
I've seen writers get on other writers' books and obviously do things with malice. It happens. I know one editor posing as a writer who most definitely did it.
I hadn't actually thought that happend with OMEGA, but it's hard to tell. I figured it was just rank, callous incompetence.
As for BLOODSTONE... the final chapter, out of nowhere, they switched writers, and, even more out of nowhere, the guy who did that final episode for whatever reason decided to KILL OFF the hero, thus ending a series that felt like it had barely gotten started.
Deacdes later, others decided to do a sequel, starring a female relative of the original. Astoundingly... that was a lot more fun than the original ever was.
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Post by rberman on Oct 24, 2019 12:57:17 GMT -5
Colleen Doran has eight more issues of A Distant Soil planned, and I'm sufficiently invested now to want to see how it ends. I hope Saga and The Walking Dead reach satisfactory endpoints. the journey so far has been interesting on all three of these.
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Post by Confessor on Oct 24, 2019 22:12:22 GMT -5
Miracleman/Marvelman.
Although I understand that Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham are actually currently working on finally finishing the story.
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Post by berkley on Oct 25, 2019 2:07:03 GMT -5
A few other Gerber series come to mind besides Omega:
Void Indigo - even though he apparently lost interest in it himself later on, I wish it had carried on. Making use of some of the ideas he'd been playing with in VI later on in Hard Times doesn't count, to me.
Howard the Duck - interrupted by his departure form Marvel when it was still going strong (though they should never have replaced Steve Leialoha with Klaus Janson on the inks).
Man-Thing - yes, Gerber tied up his run into one grand epic finale, but it didn't have to be the last story. Some of his best work was done for this series and I would love to have seen it continue, though it's possible he wouldn't have wanted to do both it and HtD at the same time. I wish he were still around today so we could ask him questions like this!
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Post by badwolf on Oct 27, 2019 17:26:00 GMT -5
I wanted to see what happened with Void Indigo as well.
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Post by Calidore on Oct 27, 2019 19:03:36 GMT -5
I'll add another vote for Void Indigo, and also second the Andy Helfer Shadow. Though regarding the latter, I was on a comic mailing list years ago that also had Mike Gold as a member, and someone asked about that up. Gold said that an annual (IIRC) had been floated and started, but in the end nobody was really interested in finishing it.
One I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned yet is Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz's Big Numbers, which only had two issues published out of a planned twelve.
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Post by MWGallaher on Oct 28, 2019 8:17:06 GMT -5
A couple of 80's gems that were cut short: Phil Foglio and "Freff" collaborated on this B&W magazine:  I haven't read it in ages, but I remember it bowling me and lots of other readers over. The creators had a less than amicable break-up and the story was never continued. I seem to recall that there was some agreement by which both creators could publish their own continuation of the series, which would have been a fascinating experiment in divergent story-telling, but maybe I'm wrong about that. In any case, readers never got any more of this. Another that I remember loving, but which I haven't read in ages, ended with its 7th installment, without closure:  Writer Lamar Waldron and artist Ted Boonthakanit were ahead of their time with this stylish sci-fi. I'll have to dig these up again and see if they're as terrific as I remember. |
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Post by badwolf on Oct 28, 2019 11:23:10 GMT -5
I had the two issues of Big Numbers but don't really remember anything about them. I would have liked to see the rest of that as well.
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Post by urrutiap on Oct 28, 2019 15:55:44 GMT -5
One comic book that really never got finished properly was the old magazine format sized black and white Nightmare on Elm Street where it was 2 issues but there was supposed to be a third one but was canceled because of frikkin parents that were being overprotective of their kids reading a violent comic book
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Post by elcadejo on Oct 29, 2019 13:18:52 GMT -5
A couple of 80's gems that were cut short: Phil Foglio and "Freff" collaborated on this B&W magazine: I haven't read it in ages, but I remember it bowling me and lots of other readers over. The creators had a less than amicable break-up and the story was never continued. I seem to recall that there was some agreement by which both creators could publish their own continuation of the series, which would have been a fascinating experiment in divergent story-telling, but maybe I'm wrong about that. In any case, readers never got any more of this.
Oh my god, this was a near-perfect first issue. <weeps>
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Post by berkley on Oct 31, 2019 11:56:18 GMT -5
forgot to mention Steve Englehart's Doctor Strange and Avengers, probably because I talk about them a lot all the time anyway. But I should officially add them to this thread as they're two of the runs I most regret being ended before their time. And both were just beginning what looked to be big new storylines for their respective series too.
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Post by brutalis on Oct 31, 2019 13:32:14 GMT -5
forgot to mention Steve Englehart's Doctor Strange and Avengers, probably because I talk about them a lot all the time anyway. But I should officially add them to this thread as they're two of the runs I most regret being ended before their time. And both were just beginning what looked to be big new storylines for their respective series too. I wonder sometimes how Englehart's FF would have played out if they had left him alone without "editing" him so much that he felt he had to take his name off and use another name since it wasn't what "he" had intended. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 2, 2019 8:19:28 GMT -5
I'm not sure if it was ever actually intended to be a long term thing, but Simonson's Avengers with Mr. and Mrs. Fantastic, Cap, and Gilgamesh would have been different enough to be interesting if it ever actually happened longer than one story.
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