It was okay, but not overly impressive; I remember little of it now.
A new B5 series on the horizon?
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I'm not much of a comic book expert, but I gather his runs on Thor and Spider-man were pretty well received and I think the latest Superman graphic novel was in the best sellers list for some considerable time...oh and I'm pretty sure 'The Changeling' got a lot of award nomination...might have even won a few.
The thread title is cruel. 
I've read only a small amount of his (early) work on The Amazing Spider-Man, but as I recall my reaction was favorable. I haven't read any of his other mainstream (i.e., superhero) work, and I quite liked Supreme Power, Rising Stars, Midnight Nation, and the Dream Police one-shot. At some point I need to get the TPB of The Book of Lost Souls.
Ditto above. I love his comic work. I also thought he did a great job on Thor.
Rising Stars is fantastic, and Midnight Nation is pretty good (but hard to get now as I think it is out of print and has been for a while. I know the two comic shops I frequent haven't had copies of the latter for a couple years now and they're big stores). His Amazing Spider-Man work was pretty good when Joe Q wasn't butting in and pissing him off. Same as his first arc or two on "Thor" before he finally left Marvel.
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A fair amount of JMS' comic work is decent but none of it close to B5 quality.
For something completely different, some might be interested in the City of Dreams audio dramas: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheCandleAndTheStar#g/u They're broken into two or three parts per episode.
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So would Brand New Day be Joe Q butting in then? Because I know that pissed alot of people off.
Sure, I liked Rising Stars, Midnight Nation, his run on Thor, and the movies Changeling and Ninja Assassin. Also Jeremiah was a pretty good show even though we only got 2 seasons in the end.
This works the other way too. You can similar themes pre-B5 presented in shows like Ghostbusters and He-Man. Doesn't make them the same story though.
Does anyone think that Joe would be interested in doing a Babylon 5 animated series? I think a lot of fans would go for this concept, I'm guessing him not so much. He's obviously written in animation before so it wouldn't be a foreign concept and it would be able to open up the universe to him and us in a way that live action hasn't been able to do. Especially his Lost Years anthology ideas. I know that I would be pretty excited to see something like this.
He did the B5 Comic Books, so I don't see why he would be opposed to animated.
Could it be marketable enough to kids to fill out the audience that would be lost due to it being animated?
What kind of budget could be hoped for, how expensive would worthy animation be? I would want Animation like Clone Wars or Final Fantasy, where some things look barely not real. The "flat" style animation, I don't think would do Babylon 5 justice.
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Well put, especially the part I've emboldened. An animated series would solve the problem of the ageing or unavailability of some of the original cast. However, it's usually reckoned that animation loses you a sizeable chunk of the potential audience who associate animation with kid's cartoons. Hopefully, the Clone Wars series has demonstrated that times have moved on.
