Hey there, Tron fans! Do you want yet another piece of cancelled Tron media to feel miserable about, since we most likely never will be able to see it finished? Then look no further than the planned 2004 Tron 2.0 comic!
The Tron 2.0 Wiki has a comprehensive summary of everything we know about the comic, and there’s also this archived interview with the creators. What we know is certainly tantalizing. It seems to have been intended to be a sequel to the game, with a superheroic tone, with Jet Bradley jumping between being an ordinary human in the Real World and a colorful, superpowered protector of the digital world. Mercury would of course be his partner/sidekick, but what’s especially interesting is the descriptions of two entirely new characters: A “digital viking” named Tek, and Odorus, who can apparently track Programs with his sense of smell (wait, computers programs have a sense of smell? How does that work? What does that represent?). The plot on the first planned miniseries (named “Derezzed”) apparently revolved around these characters solving a murder mystery.
Sadly, the comic was never published, though we did get some cool cover images, including this one that appears to depict some new villains:
Some sketches for pages have also surfaced (they’re all available on the Wiki page linked above), and I believe that one of them might actually show the “viking” character, in the lower right corner:
Another page has Jet and Mercury talking to an unknown character. Could they be Odorus? Or perhaps the murder victim?
Another intriguing thing is that there were apparently also plans for a story about the characters from the original film. This sketch page might be for that comic, or maybe a flashback sequence in the 2.0 comic:
Of course, we did eventually get a comic sequel to Tron 2.0 in the form of Tron: The Ghost in the Machine, but that was certainly something very different from the cancelled comic.