When FOX announced its winter schedule last week, one of its new shows was Human Target, an action/drama series based on a character from DC comics. Meanwhile, AMC -- which has had an amazing track record with Breaking Bad and Mad Men -- is adapting another comic book series, Robert Kirkman's addictive life-after-zombies book The Walking Dead.
Visit a comic shop these days and you'll see plenty of titles based on the world of TV, from Joss Whedon's continuation of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to (really) Oprah Winfrey. But going from comics to TV? Doesn't happen very often, at least not that successfully. (Smallville, now in its 45th season, is an exception. And it's based on a well-established character.)
It's too bad, because there are quite a few titles that have come out in the last few years that would make for great TV series. Here's a look at just five of them:
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