With ABC having passed on picking up additional episodes of “Pushing Daisies” the show is basically dead. Bryan Fuller, the show’s creator and executive producer, said in October that the 13th episode of this season ends in a cliff hanger and should the show get axed he had hopes of continuing it as a comic.

Since TV and Comics are both visual mediums, just about any show could make the jump the screen to the page. However, the uniqueness of “Pushing Daisies” makes it even more qualified to be a comic. For starters, it isn’t set in the real world. Like Tim Burton or Dr. Seuss, Fuller has his own look. Since original sets and and backgrounds are used for every episode it would be easy to create a comic where the overall visual design matches what you see on the show. In fact it would be more pleasing for the eye to go from the already cartoony designs in “Pushing Daisies” to a comic then it would be to do the same thing with something very real-world like “Grey’s Anatomy.”

Moving past the visual look, another key feature of “Pushing Daisies” is the narrator. Now don’t get me wrong. I at times have shared my hatred for the man who constantly tells us what has happened in old episodes (if only he’d explain everything at the beginning of the show instead of re-telling me things I already know!), however he’s an important part of what makes the show what it is. Since narration boxes have been around since the start of comics, incorporating him into a comic would be as easy as pie (pun fully intended).

Then finally, a comic of the show should be done with each comic being equivalent of an episode. Maybe these means bumping a comic from the standard 22 pages to 32 pages or cutting back on some of the re-caps. But it’s important to keep the procedural aspect of the show alive in a comic since structurally it is’s how the show works.

So could “Pushing Daisies” work as a comic? Hell yeah it could! The question is… will it happen? What a lot of hollywood types don’t realize is that there isn’t money here. The only reason to produce a comic is because the story you want to finish telling is so important that you NEED to tell it. With Fueller potentially already signing a new deal with Universal chances are he’ll be too busy to wrap up “Daises” as a comic. But we can always hope.