It's very de rigour at the moment to have "official continuations" of TV shows that have either ended naturally or been cancelled mid-cliffhanger in comic book format. Or graphic novel if you are a bit of a snob. Buffy The Vampire Slayer has continued with seasons 8 and 9 (and Angel continued with "After The Fall"); Farscape had some official post-Peacekeeper Wars miniseries continuations; Smallville is currently mid-season 11; X Files launched an official season 10 comic book series this month. HECK! Even Charmed had a 9th season in comic book form... (Are there any I've missed?) So while I find out what Mulder and Scully have been up to, here are 10 shows that deserve to live on in the immortal form of graphics and ink (provided the original creators/writers are involved)...
- 10 ~ Flashforward Season 2: Sure, it got a bit meandering in it's first (and only) season, but the premise was sound and I was dying to find out the relevance of that blooming Kangaroo in Los Angeles from the pilot episode. And of course, I absolutely need resolution to what all those new flashforwards means for the world. Yes please, I do...
- 09 ~ The Ringer Season 2: "Siobhan is alive and wants me dead?" How can you not have a burning urge to find out what is happening to the two most deceptive sisters this side of The Lying Game?? Plus Sarah Michelle Gellar Hyphen Prinze has worked out pretty well in a comic book form as Buffy so why the heck not Siobhan and Bridget???
- 08 ~ Dynasty Season 10: Oh sure, comic book continuations are usually reserved for sci-fi or fantasty shows, but what is more out of this world than continuing with Dynasty? Let's ignore the reunion, and pick right up with Dex and Alexis falling off that balcony! PS More spaceships in the jungle please and if ABC Family want to do Dynasty 2013 (much like TNT's Dallas), I'm a-ok with that!
- 07 ~ V Season 3: Cancelled due to falling ratings after two short seasons in 2011, V really should be getting the success Falling Skies is currently enjoying. Plus it had a finale that basically killed half the cast and set up the most fantastical premise. I wanna know exactly where they think this lizard invasion is going and what's gonna happen to that hybrid baby...
- 06 ~ The 4400 Season 5: It just sort of ended didn't it, and there was so much more life in this bad boy :) Complex father and son relationships, alien abductions across time, Messiah complexes and now some sort of hippy commune? Just sort out why it happened, what it means now and provide the tens of fans hungry for more with some semblance of an ending. Merci beaucoup...
- 05 ~ Kyle XY Season 3B: Good ol' ABC Family. They do chunks of ten episodes then a break before the last ten episodes yet in the case of Kyle XY season 3, just forget to bring it back at all. GASP! What were all those clones about? Was Jessi really broken or just a cold blooded killer?! Will Kyle get back together with whiney Amanda?! Cassidy is Kyle's brother?!?! So much more to explore - and the artists would never have to draw a belly button again :)
- 04 ~ Veronica Mars Season 4: Yes yes it's all kickstarted now with a new film coming out, but it's obviously not going to pick up where season 3 left off - with Keith Mars splattered all over the papers in the most negative way at election time. I for one want to know what happened to Veronica as she embraced her "sophomore" year of college; perhaps with an overarching season mystery as years 1 and 2 had. Plus the show was excellent comic book noir when on the screen so would no doubt translate well :)
- 03 ~ Twin Peaks Season 3: Fans of this show are so enraptured with the 30 or so original hours of programming that graced ABC airwaves in the early 90s that any continuation would have to satisfy overwhelming expectations. Pretty sure David Lynch and Mark Frost are up to the job & could explore what was next for Killer Bob in a more art driven format. It would need to carefully encapsulate the stunning visuals and nuanced storytelling that the show was famous for, but would provide fans with some resolution all these years later...
- 02 ~ Pushing Daisies Season 3: Thanks to the writers strike there was almost a year between the first 9 episodes of Pushing Daisies (which rated quite well) and the final 13 (where no one seemed to care anymore :S) Still one of my very favourite shows - and as you can see above, plans were a-foot for a comic book continuation but sadly never came to fruition. Rumours are now rife of a pending stage musical version but I am still gonna need more stories of the piemaker & his gang of merry men :)
- 01 ~ Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman Season 5: So, cancelled due to shockingly bad ratings in season 4, it was left with an enormous unresolved cliffhanger where Lois and Clark find a baby in their kitchen. To be continued... announced the final screen before credits. Uh, no it wasn't! So obsessed with the show at the time was I that I mapped out a whole season 5 in my head, starting with the resolution to the baby story and leading up to a finale where a tv version of Zero Hour happens... So if DC comics want to give me a call, that would be super...
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