Did you ever pass over a book because it just didn't look appealing, read that it's canceled sometime later, then find that it was written by someone you now really enjoy? I was looking at an old house ad for the volume of Swamp Thing that centered on Tefe', Alec and Abbey's daughter. I passed it up at the time with hardly a second glance. I became disenchanted with Swamp Thing after Alan Moore left because Rick Veitch's work was nit appealing to me at all, so a series about his daughter seemed decidedly unappealing. Now I realize that it was written by Brian K. Vaughn, a writer that I follow avidly. I'm sure I can find it in TPB now if I want, but it does make me wish I'd sampled it when it was new.

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  • Actually, I don't think that series has been trade-collected. It didn't do too well, as I recall. It's probably only a matter of time, though, as BKV is pretty hot right now, and DC's busy reprinting anything even remotely associated with Alan Moore...

    I did collect that series when it came out, and liked it okay as I recall. Though I think I remember BKV talking about how he was trying so very hard to be clever and Alan Moore-ish with that series, to the point that he thinks it was too heavy handed. My vague memories don't exactly support that assessment, but I can see how that might be the case if I were to go back and re-read it.
  • Yeah, I'd be surprised if that didn't get collected in a few more years.

    I can't think of any regrets right now, but I'm sure I'll come up with some soon enough...
  • Chronos from DC. Man, that was good. I just wish that I (and a few thousand other people) had read it BEFORE it was canned.
  • I've had that happen a bunch of times. I don't mind collecting series as back issues so it's not uncommon for me to start collecting a series years after it's been canceled.

    On the bright side, at least you're not surprised/disappointed by the title's cancellation as were the fans following it at the time.
  • I had this happen to me with Dr. Strange when it was written by Rick Remender and it was about the new Sorcerer Supreme. Wish I would have supported that one before it became a miniseries.

    Also, I wish I would have supported Captain Britain and MI6.

  • I recall picking up NEXUS #1 (B&W magazine) because it had a Paul Gulacy cover.  Then I flipped it open, and the interior art looked SO amateurish I PUT IT BACK.  I was just buying way, way too many things at the time, and I think I'd finally reached my limit.

    Sometime later, I got NEXUS #3 (also B&W) because it had a flexi-disc.  I was more interested in the gimmick than the book, although I had to admit, the art had improved quite a lot. I also got the color NEXUS #1 not long after, but didn't read it at the time.  I try not to do that sort of thing anymore.  You buy it, you READ it!!!

    A couple years later, I was chatting with a comics dealer I'd met before, who'd set up a table at a local mall.  After B.S.-ing for around 45 minutes, I felt like I oughta buy SOMETHING, so I picked 3 books I wasn't regularly buying to give them a try.  One of them was NEXUS #16.

    That damn comic totally blew my mind!!!  Not only was I hooked, but within a few months, I'd managed to get every back-issue I 'd missed.  I never did get the first 2 B&W mags, but not long after all 3 were reprinted as a graphic novel.  The evolution of the art in that single story is mind-boggling.  Anyway, for several years (as long as Steve Rude was doing it), NEXUS was my #1 FAVORITE comic.  And to think, I put the first issue BACK!!!

  • You know, Henry, Dark Horse is publishing the complete Nexus in Omnibus form. The first two volumes are out now!

  • I've been eyeing those Nexus Omniboo, too. Great content for a terrific price!

  • Me, too, and I read the original from the third B&W 'til past First's folding.

  • I have all the originals (except as noted above).  Why buy reprints?

    Oh yeah... and the series got MUCH better when Steve Rude came back (the Dark Horse run).

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