Unfinished comics you most want to see.

I read Halo Jones over the weekend and it's completely great. I thought the last issue (er, episode) was perfect, but I understand that there was supposed to be much more?

There were indeed supposed to be 7 more Halo Jones books after the first 3.

If I mention D'arc Tangent, will anybody know what I'm talking about?

Only very vaguely. I used to know a guy who was a Phil Foglio completist/fanatic.

As for D'Arc Tangent, i think I still have the one and only issue somewhere in my mother's loft.

If Alan Moore predeceases Byrne, JB should do "Twilight of the Superheroes."

While the time machine is here, though, I'd like to shop in the alternate universe where Animal Man lasted exactly as many issues as it did here, except they were all written by Morrison.

Also: Rick Veitch's Swamp Thing (followed by Neil Gaiman's).

(1) He said that one issue of Tyrant takes him a year to finish, mostly b/c of the infinite amount of research that he puts into it. He gave the impression that he's pretty much done with comics and is just finishing up a book on vermont film and teaching at james sturm's comics college. It seemed kind of sad.

(2) He told the secret story of 1963, which was pretty interesting. He was originally approached by Jim Valentino just as a contact to get Alan Moore. Moore expressed his disapproval but said something like 'Well, it's up to you. If you want to do it, we can do it. It'd be great to work with you again.' So the deal was supposed to have been announced at that years san diego con, which SB descrbied as being like a third reich rally (with the image artists as the teen-worshipped idols). Jim Valentino made the announcement and then Jim Lee out of nowhere cut in and--to steal JV's thunder--said "And I'm doing the annual!" All the teens in the audience, SB said, cheered, probably b/c he's the only one they'd heard of. While SB seemed really happy with 1963 financially (he said he paid his full year's rent with it and ran off to do Tyrant), he seemed disatisfied artistically. They can't collect it, b/c there's no end.

Speaking of JB - I kinda wish he followed through w/ Next Men instead of cutting out after just 2+ years. I think my work ethic is actually patterned after JB's - work on something for a while, and then bail like it's taking on water.

The farm became a kind of commune, a haven for environmentalist outcasts -- including Annie Cassidy, a woman who also was in contact with the Red, and her daughter named Lucy who began a relationship with Cliff -- a relationship they consummated in animal passion. Buddy, overwhelmed by the Red, again adopted the body of the hybrid animal avatar and flew to Washington, D.C., where he attacked the city with all kinds of animals, trying to pressure humanity to change its ways.

Major traits of Vertigo at the time:

* Everyone sleeps with everyone.

* New religions, cults, vague and/or tacked-on allusions to shamanism, gnosticism, and cyberinfophiliamemeticwhoosis.

* Taking over the world for its own darn good.

* Having phenomenal cosmic power but not getting all capey about it.

* That issue of Shade where he turns into a dance floor and falls in love with the deaf chick.

which in turn leads us to: Miracleman

> I take it 'the Red' is like Swamp Thing's 'the Green'?

doesn't swamp thing have it's own red (and blue, and transparent, and rock-color?) these days. didn't he progress from being earth elemental to being an 'everything elemental'? (only to give it all away again at the start of volume 4. i get confused. i liked it better when it was about evil monkeys.)

BEING A SAD MIRACLEMEN FANBOY, I WAS ACTUALLY BUYING IT IN THE HOPE THE MIKE MORAN PLOT WOULD END UP IN MIRACLEMAN APPEARING.

Yeah, I've lost track too. It actually gets more confusing the more you read in a sitting -- there was the pre-Vertigo "cosmology" of elementals ("elementalology?") which had Gaea or some damn thing appointing Swamp Thing, Red Tornado, Firestorm, and .. Captain Atom? ... as the four elementals. Then that was ignored, and other elementals didn't come up, except for Animal Man's thing over in his own book. Then the Morrison-Millar run ignored most of what had gone in the book and did their thing with Swampy's Lestat-like power-ups (i.e. the everything elemental). Then Tefe got her own book, I didn't read it, it got cancelled, and Animal Man showed up again and Aquaman became the Elemental of the ... Clear.

The new book rearranged ST's power levels into something more writeable, but the specifics have gone in one ear and out the other -- I don't remember if he's actually lost any of his M&M-bestowed elemental status.

Oy.

Dominion (one issue of an ongoing, then dead)
Reign Of The Zodiac (eight issues? of 144 - who knows, no-one cares)
Punx (three of four issues on a first miniseries, a one-off that was meant to be between the first and second miniseries, and a bunch of prelude sequences for the second miniseries)
Vext (six or seven issues of an ongoing-with-plot)
The Heckler (six or seven issues of an ongoing-without-so-much-of-a-plot)
LSH v4 (a whole three awesome issues into what became his 36-issue run [even that was shorter than he planned] before they had to reboot the universe twice to make M!ke Car1!n stop crying)
The March Hare (one issue of an open-ended series)

who can remember more? or knows about Marvel (or Erik Larsenverse) ones?