Written By Brian K. Vaughan

Y: The Last Man has a simple premise, what if every creature with a Y chromosone suddenly died at the same time. Following the only man left alive, Yorick Brown, and his pet monkey Ampersand the story follows them as they attempt to make their way to Australia to find his girlfriend Beth. Accompanied by agent 355, a mysterious government again, the trio head to find beloved.

Yorick is not what would be called a “strong” protagonist. He rarely wins in a fight and he doesn’t jump into the air firing guns. Yorick is an escape-artist, and a fairly good one at that. This would lend a possible game to being an adventure, possibly episodic. Like Kentucky Route Zero Y: The Last Man could follow them as they travel across the world. While the vast majority of the 60 issue run took place during this journey, there is a lot of room to fit in these extra scenarios, or even go through the comic’s narrative.

A Movie Is Currently In The Works, Making It A Slightly Larger Possibility

While adventure games don’t pull in the gamers like it used to, it would be more tempting if it were tackled by Telltale Games after their work on The Walking Dead and Fables. Who knows, at this rate they just might. It is not like there is any shortage of material.

Written By Mike Carey

How about a God game with a twist? Instead of controlling a world with religion and war, how about doing the opposite? That game could be Lucifer.

Originating as a spin-off to Sandman, Lucifer follows the titular character after he quits his charge in hell. Running a bar in LA, Lucifer decides to create his own reality outside of God’s existence. This of course rubs God the wrong way and so he sends the host of heaven to close the gates to this other reality.

During the series it follows Lucifer setting up this other universe the way he sees fit. No one will worship a God or other being, not even himself. It will be a bastion of free will and no one will bow down to any mystical being or higher power. Even immortal beings are required to check their eternal youth at the door to keep Lucifers image intact.

Magic How The Gloves And Trousers Stay On

Now put yourself in his shoes. You have a new universe that you want to keep pure of influence. As the creator you want to make sure your canvas isn’t corrupted. As various factions creep into the many entrances of thee world, you must prevent them influencing the various creatures and groups in planets, galaxies or otherwise. Odin decides he wants to play rough, so stamp him out by raising an army. An army of angels converts a city, crush it with some fire and brimstone.

Looking after a new universe is a little grand in scale, but you are the most powerful being with the exception of God after all. Twisting the usual God game formula, playing a fallen angel may make crushing the believers a distraction.

Written By Warren Ellis

This one is by far the most impossible, but most interesting of the ideas. Just go with it. Global Frequency had a short 12 issue run from 2002 – 2004. It even had a pilot for a TV series made. Each issue focuses on a different member of the 1,001 strong organisation, with each member having their own special talent. Some are free-runners, some are boxers and others are just smooth talkers. All linked by one individual named Miranda Zero, each issue had a small self-contained story about one, or a couple members.

This by itself perfectly suits an episodic release, each episode having a new character in a new situation perhaps eventually uncovering a vast conspiracy. Now here is the kicker, what if each episode was a different genre? One episode has an athlete running over roof-tops Mirror’s Edge style, the next has you commanding a unit of troops as a retired general. It can go in any direction, only held back by imagination and talent.
The main issue with this this not being a possibility would be that no studio could tackle this many genres in an episodic timeframe without additional help. When that happens quality assurance becomes an issue as multiple studios get involved in a single project. Shipped out to the right studios it could be a cavalcade of fantastic short games from particular teams doing what they do best. But by this point it hits truly impossible. The cost and trouble just wouldn’t be worth it. Costs would soar, arguments would arise and it just wouldn’t be worth it.

CSI: Unorthodox Autopsy Unit

A man can dream though…A man can dream.

So there we go. Six ideas we will most likely never see. But if we always got what we wanted what would we dream about? At the very least this let you know about some extremely good comics that are out there and don’t go beyond 100+ issues.

What do you think? Were you disappointed a certain comic didn’t make it on? Disagree with some of the picks? Let us know what you think in the comments.