Preacher getting canned was a disappointment because I think its one of the best examples the comic book medium has as far as excellence goes & the only way to really tell that story is in a series format. But beyond that I think a really stylized HBO/Showtime series for just about any good Vertigo title could work- Sandman, Fables, Y the Last Man, so on and so forth. If the production value & creative talent are on par with a Heroes or just about any HBO mini-series or series, it can be done & done well. Even if it were animated at a high quality like the Spawn series or done with lots of green screens I think the sky is the limit as far as adapting anything worth the effort.


There's plenty of bad or mediocre adaptations of comics in recent years- Blade, Painkiller Jane, the live action Tick come to mind. The success of Heroes should be opening doors up for more comic to tv adaptations done at a higher level, I'm hoping they're done right with respect to the source material or not done at all.