Worst Comic Books You've Ever Read -

[Yaoi Huntress Earth]

I just wanted to know what some of the worst comic books you've ever read were. I'm mainly going to stick with non-mangas for the time being. Here's some of mine...

America: Poor art, lousy color work and a writer who was only a diversity hire that probably sees Marvel as her sugar daddy. America is a boorish, unlikable heroine who feels like a chore to read about. Not to mention it has the lamest sidekicks ever, the Deltas, whose looks would be outdated even if this comic was done 20 years ago.

Wacky Raceland: Neat concept, but it's ruined by taking the wacky out of Wacky Races, an unlikable cast and when the series isn't trying to be edgy, angsty or pull at your heart strings, it's a slog to read through. There is some morbid curiosity to see how much it rapes the fandom, but that loses it's appeal after a while. Worst yet, they turned Dick Dastardly from a lovable, sneaky villain who likes to cheat and cause trouble to an angsty jerk (who often mopes about his dead wife and son) that doesn't cheat or set traps and even won a race fairly. Oh, and Muttley doesn't laugh.

 

[ShittyRecolor]

I could talk about SJW Marvel, but they are a way too easy target at this point. Other than that, one of the biggest banes of my childhood was definitely Transformers #24 (back from the original Marvel Comics run), where Optimus Prime practically does an assisted an hero over killing a bunch of fucking NPCs. I wish I was joking.

 

[friedshrimp]

New Marve-*shot*

Well, outside that, I thought Identity Crisis was a big blow. Dark, depressing, dour, bad art...I guess I'm just salty since I used to like Ralph Dibny back in the day.

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

If we're talking about "worst" in the sense it was unpleasant, then Maus. I was 14 at the time and the way it was described to me made me feel like it was gonna be an allegory or something. Imagine my surprise at its candor. I felt sick to my stomach the whole way through.

 

[Yaoi Huntress Earth]

New Marve-*shot*

Well, outside that, I thought Identity Crisis was a big blow. Dark, depressing, dour, bad art...I guess I'm just salty since I used to like Ralph Dibny back in the day.

I totally understand how you feel since I'm a big Ralph and Sue Dibny fan as well and it seemed hateful in how they treated Sue. (Being raped by Dr. Light in the past (her memory was erased), accidentally killed by The Atom's ex in an attention-whoring attempt to only give her a stroke, her corpse is burnt to a crisp and it's revealed that she was going to have a baby and surprise her husband with the good news.)

 

[[Insert Meme Here]]

Batwoman Rebirth: only read the first 4 issues and it was a confusing read that didn't give me anything.

Once upon a time, DC Comics released something called Tangent Comics. I think this was a 90s thing. But basically, they took the names of famous superheroes, like the Flash, and created totally different, totally original superheroes as a sort of what if/elseworlds thing. Kind of like All-New, All-Different heroes were supposed to be to Marvel heroes, but they were never intended to be canon.

Well, I own 2 issues of Tangent's The Flash, and it is bad. Art is meh but passable, but the bad guy is such a caricature of a bad guy. He feels more like Dick Dastardly than a supervillain. The Flash herself is a space baby with light powers and a fashion model, and there is stereotypically not much in her head. I own them because I told someone that I liked the Flash and they found these, thinking this is what I was referring to. Imagine how I felt when I got this crap.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

Do Chick Tracts count?

 

[Yaoi Huntress Earth]

Do Chick Tracts count?

Not really since they're not comic books, but I'll let it slide.

 

[RealtreeByGod]

I read Trouble one time when it was story timed on /co/ because I apparently hate myself.

 

[The Colonel]

Countdown to Final Crisis and Final Crisis.

 

[Yaoi Huntress Earth]

Countdown to Final Crisis and Final Crisis.

I agree with Linkara that the whole thing was mean-spirited. Also, it cemented my hatred of Superman-Prime.

 

[admiral]

Midnighter was not good. It had promise but it read like edgy fanfiction and failed massively at being self aware. Midnighter and Apollo also sucks, though slightly less and I'd maybe read it again.

 

[MW 002]

Bitch Planet.

Good god, I couldn't make it past the first ten pages without cringing.

 

[ShittyRecolor]

Bitch Planet.

Good god, I couldn't make it past the first ten pages without cringing.

I feel your pain. I was eagerly anticipating issue one thinking it's gonna be some TROMA-esque transgressive stuff, but it was just self-indulgent, mean-spirited crap without the wit to make said mean-spiritedness enjoyable, and it also fails at its self-proclaimed goal of being a satire of today's Western society. I mean, sending housewifes to a prison planet because their husbands got bored of them? Really?

 

[RobotGentleman]

Angel Catbird. It has the distinction of being written by Margaret fucking Atwood, who at 77 years old decided to make a graphic novel featuring a "superhero" that would make deviantArt proud. Needless to say, it's pretty terrible.

 

[Yaoi Huntress Earth]

Angel Catbird. It has the distinction of being written by Margaret fucking Atwood, who at 77 years old decided to make a graphic novel featuring a "superhero" that would make deviantArt proud. Needless to say, it's pretty terrible.

What exactly is bad about it, story-wise?

I feel your pain. I was eagerly anticipating issue one thinking it's gonna be some TROMA-esque transgressive stuff, but it was just self-indulgent, mean-spirited crap without the wit to make said mean-spiritedness enjoyable, and it also fails at its self-proclaimed goal of being a satire of today's Western society. I mean, sending housewifes to a prison planet because their husbands got bored of them? Really?

I was in the same boat when I thought it was going to be a take on those chicks in prison movies with all that exploitation goodness.

 

[Morose_Obesity]

When I was young and stupid I bought nearly everything Image Comics put out (in their first year publishing) and the bulk of it was full on rancid , stinky shit.

 

[GentlemanFaggot]

Do Chick Tracts count?

Sure. They sell more copies than Marvel and DC.

 

[Van Darkholme]

Spider-Gwen.
It's pretty much everything you expect from SJW Marvel, getting through the first TPB was a chore.

 

[[Insert Meme Here]]

Spider-Gwen.
It's pretty much everything you expect from SJW Marvel, getting through the first TPB was a chore.

Spider-Gwen is still miles better than the Unbeatable Wasp.

Spider-Gwen's problem is that no one thought it through-it had a lot of great ideas that never go anywhere. It's fairly obvious that the writers are just making shit up as they go with only the vaguest of ideas of a plot. The only idea they can do consistently is having her travel to the main universe to pal around with Spiderwoman and Silk, as opposed to developing her own universe and character. She developed more character in that Spider-Women special than in her own book. And that was one short volume.

Matt Murdock as the head of an army of (presumably) Hand ninjas AND the bad guy? A great idea for an alternate universe! But then they try to make him everything and make him the Kingpin, too. Gwen's father losing his job as a police officer and getting arrested for obstruction of justice in NOT arresting his daughter? A great idea for conflict! But they don't focus on shit.

Personally, I think the first volume is tolerable, but in the second it just goes downhill so fast. She should have stuck as a one-off elseworld thing.