X-Statix by Pete Milligan and Mike Allred was a fantastic book killed before it's time, but maybe that was the point. The characters like the Anarchist, Mr. Sensative and Dead Girl were some of the most original superheroes ever.

I loved it, but I do think the book got a little too mired down in the various romances of Mr. Sensative. I also thinkt he book could have branched out from the whole "mutant-as-celebrity" thing to other areas.

I do wish there had been a third issue of "Brother Power the Geek"
Fits right into this group!

toonopedia.com/geek.htm

"It's for real, all right, but real what? It doesn't talk…is it evil? Good? Or just a GEEK!"

You aren't the only fan who misses the Ultraverse. I even knew Len Strazewski back then; he had good ideas for future stories of Prime. That Marvel destroyed it always bugs me.

A series I miss is Strikeforce: Morituri. If I was the writer, I would never have the mortality issue fixed, so the crappy story of a small handful of survivors would never have happened.

The Comic Cancelled before its time that I most Lament?

DOCTOR ZERO

Doctor Zero, for those who don't know him, was the crown jewel in the "Shadowline Saga" series' of Comics put out by Epic before Marvel Completely disolved them as an imprint. The other titles in the series were "Powerline", and Doc Zero's Nemesis "St George". (All of The Shadowline Saga stories were set in a shared universe within the Marvel Comics Multiverse which was retroactively designated Earth-88194.) Despite fantastic art and edgy stories, that were they published today; would have gotten them aclaim and broad acceptance, the industry of the day (the era the internet was born... 1982 through 1990, with a big gap at the back end) Sales were poor, as most people of the day were more interested in stockpiling 10 copies of X-men #1, two of each "trading card" for X-force #1, or an even rarer and completely indistinguishable "platnum" version of Spiderman #1 (seriously... were there ever so many #1 issues of comics that were already 30 years old?)

but clearly I digress....

Doctor Zero was something new. or at least it was at the time. He wasn't a hero, and no, he wasn't one of the "anit-heroes" so popular at the time... heroes whose methods were less than heroic. He wasn't a hero at all. he was one of the most cleverly written villains of all time. His ultimate evil plan? Become the world's most beloved hero. Throughout the story we learn that not only is he (as all the other heroes from this world) a shadow dweller (empowered individuals living in secret ie the 'shadows') but in fact is the most ancient lifeform on earth, a scheming malevolence that has watched man crawl out of the primordial soup; and is also the famed 'dragon' that Saint George slew. (which it turns out he really didn't) Despite his towering evil, you find yourself identifiing and even liking him, feeling sorry for his losses, and cheering for the Dragon, over the saint!

it was genious. It ended too soon, and the end of the Shadowline saga is a mismosh of stories cut short, never to reach their full potential.

how would I fix it?

go back in time and shove Fanboys' noses in it screaming "READ IT! READ IT!!"

Cable and Deadpool....anything that ever had dead pool in it was most likely canceled before there time.
Deadpool was never aproched right they keep trying to make him a hero, he should be a max book (in more ways then one)

'Human Target' another by Milligan. Though I loved Xforce/Xstatix and ADORED his Shade:The Changing Man Human Target could have gone much further.... a man who takes on the identity of a paying customer who fears death, he often forgets who he is and even the reader has to wonder. He portrays a Black Reverend and falls in love with his wife... also seems to have more faith, but it's all just over-acting whether he knows it or not. Think Daniel Craig's Bond paranoid with an Identity crisis and a sense of obligation towards the family he pretends to be the patron of.

It could have gone a long way with any number of writers-- check out Milligan's The Programme out now it's quite good.