Abadazad.
This series started out with such promise from the doomed Crossgen Comics. 3 issues were published before the company went belly-up. Disney purchased the company's intellectual property following Crossgen's banruptcy, and inicated that it was largely to acquire Abadazad that they did so. They re-engineered the series into what was to be, at least at the outset, 4 books. Each was to by a hybrid between a prose book and graphic novel. The first two books essentially covered the 4 issues creators J.M. DeMattis and Mike Ploog finished. Yes, four issues. One of them was completed, and may have even been at the printer, but was never released. But since these drew heavily on material that was largely completed, books 1 and 2 were released simultaneously, with the other two books to follow.
After lengthy delays, J.M. DeMattis revealed that Disney had pulled the plud and that volume 3 would be the last book in the series, and that it was coming out everywhere *except* in the US.
My kids and I really enjoyed this series, and hope Disney resurrects it somehow. The book is sadly out of print.
Next up...Scott Morse!
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