With less than 24 hours to go in 2012, the world has beaten the odds and survived the apocalypse–but at what cost? Is it worth it for the world to keep spinning if there are no more new issues of The Boys?Okay, so maybe that’s the tiniest bit hyperbolic, but the point stands: A number of great series have been canceled or concluded in 2012, and while there have been a great many new releases to reassure us that the comics landscape looks strong in 2013, it’s hard to imagine some of these books never being on the “new this week” racks again.Which were the comics that ended this year, which we’ll miss the most?Irredeemable/IncorruptibleMark Waid’s Irredeemable was a truly engaging, entertaining break from what fans had come to expect from the veteran storyteller, and it blazed a trail for his work that continues with his Thrillbent series Insufferable: The writer long thought of as a master of Silver Age-style superheroics transformed himself overnight into a guy who could do some truly despicable things to and with his characters. “What would happen if Superman went bad?” was the nutshell plot summary for the story, but it became far more than that, as The Plutonian was a truly damaged character and fascinating to delve into.Incorruptible, meanwhile, was the flip side of that coin. Some bad guys, after all, just live to be their heroes’ opposite number. So if suddenly the Plutonian went bad, what would happen to his arch-nemesis? This series seems to inform books like Edison Rex and Superior Spider-Man.Without spoiling the end, it’s safe to say that there’s a bit of a meta-text twist that kind of eats its own tail a bit, borrowing from All-Star Superman‘s conclusion and establishing The Plutonian as arguably the most important character in the history of American popular fiction–at least in its own canon.
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