10 Comic Book Plots That Will Never Be Resolved
Not knowing how these end is worse than any supervillain plot.
Sometimes, the serialised nature of comics can be really infuriating. You can be reading an issue when suddenly your favourite hero will be hit with a new plot, one that completely changes up the status quo and promises that, by the end, nothing will be the same again.
Excitedly, you pick up the next issue, and the next and the next, each time desperately hoping for some resolution but all you get is a little crumb of plot development. Waiting for comic storylines to be resolved can be an exasperating process, often taking years, sometimes even decades to reach a conclusion.
Of course, that's the best case scenario. Other times, maybe a writer will leave a book, maybe the whole series will be cancelled, maybe even everyone involved will just forget, but for whatever reason we'll sometimes be left with a comic book plot that never ever gets finished.
It's a maddening experience, investing time and money on new comics trying to find out what's going to happen in a story you're invested in, only to realise you're never going to get an answer.
10. WildCats Vol. 4
The WildCats were a reasonably successful team of superheroes that started life at Image Comics before being bought up by DC's WildStorm imprint.
In 2006, writer Grant Morrison was brought in to reboot the book along with artist and series creator Jim Lee. Morrison is well known for his work on books like Animal Man which used the world of superheroes to explore political, social and philosophical themes and WildCats was set to be no different.
The series was set in a more realistic world than traditional comics, one where superheroes fought against corporate America in an attempt to make the world a better place. WildCats #1 established this new status quo and reintroduced old villains Helspont and Kaizen Gamorra. Then there was... nothing.
The rest of the series was put on hold after the first issue and has no chance of ever returning. The WildCats were rebooted again a couple of years later by a completely different creative team before the entire WildStorm imprint was shut down in 2010 and its characters folded into the main DC Universe.
Recently the entire WildStorm Universe was rebooted again in Warren Ellis' new series The Wild Storm.