TUESDAY'S TOP FIVE: CANCELLED SERIES THAT SHOULD RETURN
BY JENNIFER M. CONTINO
Each month as I see more and more titles hit the market and more and more titles end, I think about the great comic series that are no longer being published, but I think COULD make a comeback. Today are my Top Five Cancelled Series that I think SHOULD return. Some of these should come as no surprise to those who know me ... a few of them, though, might surprise you!
DC's BLUE RIBBON DIGEST
If DC could do what Archie Comics does with their digests and provide one to two hundred pages of reprints with one or two new stories for under three bucks, I think these would sell out every issue, especially if DC could get these digests in the grocery and other stores. I'd love to see this return and see it use themes like its previous incarnation so we have holiday stories or a set of issues featuring a particular character through several titles or comics by a particular artist/writer or just comics that haven't been reprinted in MANY, many years!
MARVEL TEAM-UP
What I loved about the team-up comics were you never really knew who was going to show up from issue to issue or what creator might take a turn writing an adventure. I'd like Marvel Team-Up to return on newsprint with 48 to 60 pages per issue, and a complete story in each issue. I'd love to see the front story by a well-known creator and a back up team up each issue from an independent comics creator. If Marvel could price point this at three bucks, I think it would do well in today's market. I'd love to see a comic where you had more bang for the buck and knew you were getting a complete story each and every issue.
ALL-STAR SQUADRON
A few weeks ago I wrote an entire Origin of a Comic Book Junkie about this comic book series, then interviewed Roy Thomas about his work on the series shortly afterwards. I think if DC would just let the All-Star Squadron be its own beast, set during our dark days of World War II, using any characters from the Golden Age that DC has rights to, and getting creators who truly understand the era to write it; this could be a major hit for the publisher. At least, I'd love to see a maxiseries starring some of the notables from this series up against Degaton or the Ultra Humanite or Brainwave ... anyone else out there think this series would do well again?
THE FLINTSTONES
I have a handful of Flinstones comics that I think were some of the funniest stories every written anywhere. I'd love to see a comic featuring this great Stone Age family and its colorful friends and neighbors. Throw in rotating Captain Caveman, Gadzoo, Dino or Flintstone Kids back up stories and I think this comic could appeal to so many different markets. Especially with so many TV channels rerunning The Flintstones and the entire series being available on DVD, I think interest in these characters will always be present. I'd love to see it be published as digest sized books with complete stories in each volume.
AMETHYST PRINCESS OF GEMWORLD
I can see some of you scratching your heads now going, "huh?" But think about it, you have a girl who is nothing in the "real" world -- or at least she thinks she's nothing, but in her dreams she's the greatest hero her world has ever known and their last hope. What girl wouldn't want to read a comic like this? Especially since most of us are the plain ordinary girls, who dream of being something more. I'd love to see this return, keeping its same values, staying clean cut, but updating it a little to reflect some of the troubles that young women are facing with popularity and cliques in school.
Well ... those are the comics I think should return. I'd love to hear the top five ones you'd love to see in print again and who you'd like to see working on such comics if they ever would come into print again.
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