What Were They Thinking? Worst Comic Ideas.

[garyh]

You were MOSTLY right.

You made 1 mistake tho.

Okay, then, where was I off?

 

[Vocenoctum]

Okay, then, where was I off?

He identified the Hard Master as Snake Eyes, so shot the Hard Master. He did it with a big microphone on a bow IIRC.

 

[garyh]

He identified the Hard Master as Snake Eyes, so shot the Hard Master. He did it with a big microphone on a bow IIRC.

Big microphone could be. I just remember everything in that stretch of GI Joe being mystical and ninja-ish.

 

[stevelabny]

Still hating on Hal Jordan gone bad?

NEW interview with Ron Marz at CBR...

http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=3059

read the whole thing and see that even HE takes a snipe at John Byrne.

 

[WizarDru]

Lots of good points Wizardru, and thank you also for the picture. I had a lot of fun trying to guess what year it taken was based on the titles displayed. (I've now checked an Overstreet Guide to confirm). Any guesses?

Well, let's see here: there's an Airboy visible, so that means the late 40s/early 1950s, I'll guess. There's a Batman, too, and a TerryToons. TerryToons would put it later in the 1940s/50s, Roy Rogers comics, which was from 40s through to the 50s, at least. Several of the titles there appear to be from Marvel's precursor, Timely Comics. I don't see any signs of the CCA logo, either.

Real Clue Crime Stories looks to be there, Joe Palooka, and Buzzy. This was tough, but the presence of Marvel Comics and Tessie the Typist helped limit it down.

I'm going to guess that this image was from 1949.

 

[WayneLigon]

Still hating on Hal Jordan gone bad? NEW interview with Ron Marz at CBR...read the whole thing and see that even HE takes a snipe at John Byrne.

Good interview. I'm a huge, huge fan of Kyle as GL and it's good to see that Marz is going to bring him back to Earth. And I certainly don't mind seeing the Byrne sniping. I like almost everything Byrne's done, but that one thing was really just terrible. To utterly change a character's entire life and direction in a single phonecall (And after the thing with Terry, I doubt Kyle will ever take a phonecall at his Mom's house again...) was just... eh, unappealing, and all because he wanted to use the character.

 

[Taren Seeker]

Big microphone could be.

Ding!

I didn't mean to leave you hanging this long, but then the boards went away

 

[Taren Seeker]

Good interview. I'm a huge, huge fan of Kyle as GL and it's good to see that Marz is going to bring him back to Earth. And I certainly don't mind seeing the Byrne sniping. I like almost everything Byrne's done, but that one thing was really just terrible. To utterly change a character's entire life and direction in a single phonecall (And after the thing with Terry, I doubt Kyle will ever take a phonecall at his Mom's house again...) was just... eh, unappealing, and all because he wanted to use the character.

would someone be able to give a little more detail on this?

 

[stevelabny]

would someone be able to give a little more detail on this?

Donna Troy aka WonderGirl aka Troia aka one of the Darkstars had spent time floundering around the DC Universe mostly with the various incarnations of the Titans, somehow she had become the "motherly" figure with the Titans and lost her appeal as a character.
Marz (or his editor) looked around the DCU for a hot interesting chick to use as new Green Lantern Kyle Rayner's love interest and chose Donna. The relationship with Donna and Kyle was built up pretty normally (for a soap opera, or insanely well for a comic book) and they did numerous cute comic-book romance things including Kyle giving her a necklace with a little green-lantern-powered charm so she would know if she ever left his mind (because it would disappear if part of him wasnt concentrating on it)

Then John Byrne got the job of destroying...sorry i mean WRITING Wonder Woman. He immediately threw his weight around the editorial offices to get Donna into HIS book. The editors of course let Byrne, the bigger name, get his way and just like that POOF Donna was out of GL. Completely underming the relationship that Marz had built up and leaving the GL offices scrambling.

Byrne has a huge problem doing things like this. He think "Byrne knows best" and will instantly destroy anything a previous writer has done that he disagrees with even if it doesnt make sense. He did the same thing when he returned to the Spidey books for a very short time and got his hands on the Sandman. Sandman had been a long-time Spidey villain who multiple writers had slowly walked down the path to becoming a good guy. He had joined forces with Silver Sable, with Spidey and even with the AVENGERS. (the epitome of good in the MU) But Byrne didnt like the idea of Sandman as a good guy and instantly reverting him back to a villain spoiling years of character development.
The man is insane and needs to be stopped.

 

[Villano]

Then John Byrne got the job to take destroying...sorry i mean WRITING Wonder Woman. He immediately threw his weight around the editorial offices to get Donna into HIS book. The editors of course let Byrne, the bigger name, get his way and just like that POOF Donna was out of GL. Completely underming the relationship that Marz had built up and leabing the GL offices scrambling.

I can't believe I forgot to include the Donna Troy stuff in my write up about WW at the beginning of the thread! I guess I subconsciously blocked this horror out.

Just to add to what stevelabny said, Byrne had Donna revealed to be WW's magical twin sister who was condemned to lead tragic lives across the multiverse or some such nonsense. Really terrible stuff. Byrne needs to stop doing comics.

And did Byrne kill off her ex-husband and kid or was that Marz?