With the tremendous success of X-Men ‘97, Marvel fans have been waiting with baited breath for more classic Marvel cartoons to get the same treatment. While the obvious show to bring back next is Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Marvel should seriously consider going in another direction. Rather than revive a show that already got to live up to its potential, the studio should instead focus its attention on a cartoon that never lived up to its promise, 1998’s Silver Surfer.

Lasting just 13 episodes, Silver Surfer debuted on Fox Kids in Feb. 1998. By mid-May, it had exhausted its episodes and was banished from Saturday mornings like Galactus banished Zenn-La to the far reaches of the universe. (I encourage you to watch the cartoon if you’d like to understand that reference.) Silver Surfer was developed by television veteran Larry Brody, who’d previously written on dozens of dramas beginning in the 1970s, as well as some cartoons, including a few episodes of the aforementioned Spider-Man: The Animated Series