I collected comics in the early 90's and remember there were a ton of Marvel titles. The epic ones I never read but remember them being advertised and a lot of these didn't have very long runs. Any of you buy a particular series of issue (a one-shot perhaps?) that you have fond memories of either the experience of reading at the time or as something that would hold up now?
Also, do you think there are some that could work well as a TV series or movie?
I have no idea as most of these titles are a mystery to me. However, with Dreadstar being potentially made into a TV series, are there any other titles of interest...?
Epic Comics began in the 1980s when Marvel chose to end
Epic Illustrated's legendary run. I guess the magazine wasn't selling too well, but I loved it and I assumed everyone who bought
Heavy Metal, Creepy, Eerie and
Vampirella bought it, too. (Later, Dark Horse started their own F/SF anthology title,
Cheval Noir.)
Marvel's rationale was that the magazine was "no longer necessary" with the advent of the comics line, which started with
Dreadstar, Alien Legion, Steelgrip Starkey and
The Bozz Chronicles. Elektra: Assassin was also published under the Epic Comics imprint.
I was and remain a huge fan of Jim Starlin's
Metamorphosis Odyssey mythos and
Dreadstar (the former began in the early days of
Epic Illustrated). Vanth Dreadstar became the
MO's principal character, but early on it was Vanth's disfigured wizard cohort Syzygy Darklock (the subject of the one-shot graphic novel
The Price).
A Dreadstar movie would probably turn out to be another
John Carter: an adaptation of a great property that general audiences just don't "get." You can't water down Dreadstar. It's great space opera. Yes, his laser sword would be viewed as a lightsaber rip-off (which it is), but I preferred that to when the power became a part of Vanth Dreadstar and he used his fists in lieu of, and wore a more "superhero-y" outfit, looking less like a nomadic spacefarer.
Alien Legion would make a cool movie, too.
