Brilliant But Cancelled Meme-Building -- Casey Parkman is blogging about
Brilliant But Cancelled comic books, so I thought I'd contribute to the meme pool with these offerings:

• Chase If this great DC title debuted today, it would be struggling, yes, but at least people like me would be bitching Sleeper-style about how no one is supporting this great title. Back issues of Chase aren't hard to track down cheap, and if nothing else it's worth reading for the lovely art by Promethea's art team of J.H. Williams and Mick Gray. But the stories were fun, too -- try to run these down and give 'em a look.


• X-Man Most of this series went totally under my radar, but the final batch of issues -- #63-75, I believe, plus a short story in X-Men Unlimited, were great reads, crafted by Warren Ellis, Steven Grant, Ariel Olivetti and others. The book is essential reading for Authority fans, since it features an entire story-arc with extremely thinly-veiled versions those characters teaming up with Nate Grey to stop an interdimensional apocalypse (that doesn't feature, thankfully, capital-A Apocalypse). Olivetti drew most of the run, lending Grant's stories an eerie, otherworldly atmosphere and perfectly fitting in with Grant and Ellis's recreation of Nate as a cool and distant mutant shaman. Unbelievably good, and one of the few cancelled series that I have not only jealously held on to, but re-read every few months and found new joys in every time.


• Naughty Bits Roberta Gregory's intensely personal, bitter and hilarious alternative artcomix series recently came to a close. I reviewed the final issue here and am profoundly regretful that the series is over.

All right bloggers, your turn. What's on your list of Brilliant But Cancelled comic books?

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