What Were They Thinking? Worst Comic Ideas.

[Alzrius]

There were a few good issues, but, mostly it was a terrible marketing gimmick. If they wanted to do a future of Marvel line, they should have taken a cue from DC and just did a single "Legion Of Superheroes"-type series.

The closest Marvel came to this was that after all the 2099 series had closed off, they released a trade paperback titled "2099 Finale" or something like that. The gist of it was that there was some sort of dome around the Earth separating it from the rest of the universe. They found the original Captain America in stasis, and he (using Thor's hammer) lead the attack to break it. It took the Watcher commiting suicide to bust it open though. Then there was some stuff were we see all the way ahead to 3099, and find that Cap is still around (he was apparently lost in space for a while), and is now heading to the frontier of space to bring justice there.

 

[Klaus]

Add "Guy Gardner is an alien" to the list of worst ideas ever...

 

[grigori776]

I must state the the absolute worst idea that I have ever come across was the Age of Apocalypse idea that Marvel decided to push through the X books in the early ninties.

The Age of Apocalypse was good in a kind of What If ... kind of way. Just think of it as a mini-series. Since only, I think at least, 3 characters came out of that universe into the marvel "standard" universe and next to no one remembered the event happening, those four issues may as well have been a imaginary tale. Although I understand you problems with the X-men, 4 years ago I got tired of changing writers not reading the previous writer's work, thus ignoring what had gone before. I just look at that series now and shake my head being thankful I got out when I did.

Man, Strikeforce: Morituri was COOL! They really need to put that series out in trade paperback.

I hearily second this. I have all of the series and the mini-series and I would still buy a TPB. Also, when these heroes died they stayed dead. They were lucky if they survived for 12 months. By the end of the series, the book was onto the third group of heroes. Which were the ones who received the cure and were in the mini.

Now my pick for worst comic book Ideals.
1. At the conculsion of the clone saga, MJ gave birth to a daughter. The child was stolen from her, and she was told that her daughter, May, had died. The nurse who help deliver May had taken the girl. A couple of issues later Joe Robertson was vacationing Europe, and had a contact who knew something important about May Parker. Joe mets the women. Surprise it's the nurse delivered May, only now she drops the revelation that Aunt May is alive, not mentioning the baby. Moments after Joe leaves the boat woman was (still?) in blows up. In following issues Aunt May is reunited with Pete and no mention is made of the baby. After this I could not read Spider-Man anymore and have not to this day, even going so far as to sell all my spideys off.

2. Right after everyone else went through the Siege Perilous and lost their memories Wolverine started going crazy. He saw and interacted with phantasmal versions of Nick Fury and Ms. Marvel. These hallucinations even helped him to free Psylocke from the Hand by shoting people. Psylocke used her psy-knife on Wolvie, making her able to see the phantoms. Jump about 15 issues into the future, the Shadow King has just been defeated and now Wolvie and Psylocke both are A ok. The King had nothing to do with their dementia, it just was not brought up again.

 

[Staffan]

The way I understood it, they didn't grow back, but rather, had been there all along; Apocalypse hadn't cut off his original wings and added metal ones in their place, but rather put a metal covering over his wings...which recently came off.

But he did lose his wings during the Mutant Massacre. He was captured by some Marauders, who had some fun with tearing holes in his wings. He was rescued by Thor (I think, I know Thor was involved a little anyway), but his wings had taken too much damage so they had to be amputated. This made him so depressed that he got into an airplane, flew off and blew it up (and was rescued by Apocalypse who gave him the metal wings).

 

[Turgenev]

I've ALWAYS liked Angel better...as...well, ANGEL and not the metal Archangel.

Yes! Give me the real Angel anyday over the Wolverine wannabe with wings.

Cheers,
Tim

 

[Taren Seeker]

Yes! Give me the real Angel anyday over the Wolverine wannabe with wings.

Cheers,
Tim

Eh...I always found Angel interesting as a character, but man he was pretty useless with the feather wings. They basically had to either make him a taxi service or add low powered opponents to enemy teams that he could tangle with.

He was good in the original team because he was the only real flyer. Once other mutants came in who could fly and, y'know, do other stuff Angel lost his spot.

 

[Turgenev]

Eh...I always found Angel interesting as a character, but man he was pretty useless with the feather wings. They basically had to either make him a taxi service or add low powered opponents to enemy teams that he could tangle with.

He was good in the original team because he was the only real flyer. Once other mutants came in who could fly and, y'know, do other stuff Angel lost his spot.

I can see where you are coming from, but Angel is only useless if you judge him by his powers alone. What about his financial resources, his contacts (business/political/superhero), his training as a team member (after all, the X-Men should fight as a team not as a bunch of individuals), etc?* For me, what makes a character interesting is not just what powers they have, but their personality/history/relationship with others/etc. I'm more interested in a more rounded character than someone wearing a flashy costume with cool powers. Course I also recognize the fact that one person's turd may be another's treasure... especially true when it comes to comics.

* Course all of these factors depend on which continuity you are talking about. I have no idea what the surrent status quo is for Angel, let alone most of Marvel mutant characters. I gave up on Marvel, and DC, a while ago. Don't get me wrong, I don't want Marvel to turn back the clock or anything like that. I wish them the best of luck with all of their endevours. I'm just not interested in what they are producing anymore (with the exception being the JLA vs. Avengers book - George Perez is a fantastic artist and Kurt Busiek is a decent writer also ).

Cheers,
Tim

 

[Vocenoctum]

* Course all of these factors depend on which continuity you are talking about. I have no idea what the surrent status quo is for Angel, let alone most of Marvel mutant characters. I gave up on Marvel, and DC, a while ago.

I looked at XMen in the store today, Angel's in there and it said he had "healing" power too... not sure what that is.

Can't say as I thought it was very well drawn, and they seem so much "thinner" than they were before, but maybe that's just childhood memories.

 

[Aaron L]

I looked at XMen in the store today, Angel's in there and it said he had "healing" power too... not sure what that is.

Apparently Angel really is an angel, and Nightcrawler really is a demon.

 

[Silver Moon]

Apparently Angel really is an angel, and Nightcrawler really is a demon.

And Beast really is an animal, and Pheonix really did rise from the ashes, and Cyclops really only has one eye in the center of his head.