Comic-Con: 'The Middleman's' last stand

By Korbi Ghosh

July 23, 2009 3:47 PM

Huge laughs this morning for the cast of ABC Family's "brilliant-but-canceled" series, "The Middleman," who reunited to do a table reading of the "lost" 13th episode, which was never filmed, but is being released as a comic book this month.

It is, in fact, a series finale. And a satisfying one, based on the enthused crowd reaction in Room 6A which was packed full.

Hmm, wonder if "Secret Life of the American Teenager" could fill an entire Comic-Con convention room with fans...

Executive producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach greets the audience and is met with rousing applause.

Stars Natalie Morales (Wendy) and Matt Keeslar (The Middleman) handled the complicated dialogue with ease, quite impressive actually.

Brendan Hines looks serious, but he hammed it up for the crowd more than a couple times. Cute.

Brit Morgan (Lacey) and Natalie Morales are mid-scene.

Mark Sheppard (Manservant Neville) is an audience favorite.

Matt Keeslar and Mary Pat Gleason (Ida) laugh it up over their lines...

Will you run out to purchase the comic?

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6 Comments

this makes me sad :(

gobblegobble | July 23, 2009 4:24 PM

Ahhh! This was a brilliant and entertaining show! I am not into comic books, so I probably won't buy it, but if they recorded the last ep, I would rent and/or buy the last acted episode.

Lisa | July 23, 2009 4:40 PM

Lisa, let me ***ure you, the Middleman collected graphic novel is well worth your money, even if you don't read comic books. It's intelligent and funny and different enough from the series that you won't always know what's coming next.

Andy | July 23, 2009 5:17 PM

I want this one back!!!

SyFy where are you?

Brett | July 23, 2009 5:22 PM

This was one of my favorite shows! So sad that it only lasted one season!

deserae | July 23, 2009 6:50 PM

This is the reason that I will never even turn ABC Family on my television set. It settles for sh*t like "Secret Life" and dumps one of the best ideas for a science fiction super hero show in the past 20 years.

So sad that this show got the bums rush from a network that has idiots programming it.

Great cast, greatly missed show.

BHM1304 | July 24, 2009 6:17 AM