8 Awesome Comics That Were Unbelievably Cancelled

1. Crisis Of The Soul

Everyone loves a good Crisis. Well, mostly everyone. DC mastered their talent for reboots and retcons with 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths, a story written and illustrated by Marv Wolfman and George Perez that gave DC fans what many consider to be the publisher's definitive continuity.

In the decades following Infinite Earths' publication, DC has returned to the Crisis motif on several occasions. There was Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! which released in 1994, Identity Crisis, published some twenty years later, and after that came Infinite Crisis and Final Crisis. Since then, Crisis-like events like Flashpoint and the potentially misnamed Heroes in Crisis have cropped up too, but DC actually had another in the pipeline way before Zero Hour came around.

Dubbed Crisis of the Soul, the series would've seen artist Jerry Ordway and Paul Levitz collaborate to tell a story all about the evolution of evil in the DCU. The project eventually evolved into a comic called Legends, but the premise for that particular series differed massively from what Levitz originally had in mind. Via Crisis on Earth-Prime:

"The selling point on the project was that it was to be a more intimate story, with galactic repercussions,” Jerry explains. “Crisis [on Infinite Earths], by its very nature, had a sort of distant view of the armies of heroes battling the threat, which was huge … Soul was about corrupting individuals, and that appealed to me. I liked the idea of getting into the head of Batman, or Green Lantern, and seeing what could push them over the edge."

In a way, Crisis of the Soul sounds almost ahead of its time. The idea of a more introspective crisis fed into both Brad Meltzer's Identity Crisis and later Tom King's Heroes in Crisis. One can only wonder how things might've been had Levitz and Ordway's series been published instead.