What Were They Thinking? Worst Comic Ideas.

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

In Spider-Man a few issues back a dimensional portal opens up in Times Square and thousands of mindless ones start pouring out, and within 5 minutes Thor, Iron Man, Cyclops, the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man are there fighting them.
And Doctor Strange. Doctor Strange is RAD.

...Doctor Strange is my ALL TIME FAVORITE Marvel character.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Heyheyhey; what's wrong with Quasar???

Seriously? In my day, he was considered the definition of "craptacular". Now I haven't read a comic in a while; maybe today's Quasar is the new Wolverine.

But I felt it was more a statement on the New Universe than on Quasar. I mean, the New Universe sucked so bad that the Living Tribunal had to seal it off from the Marvel Universe-at-large to keep its suckiness from infecting everthing else.

Incidentally, have they ever tried to bring NU back? I know the only rule in Marvel for a long time was "Only Bucky stays dead" but writers past and present have found all kinds of stupid ways around that. But I haven't heard any clamor to find out what Spitfire or DP7 have been up to all this time. So maybe the new rule should be "Please do not feed the New Universe".

 

[Villano]

I'd have to say the worst I have heard about is the origin story they gave Wolverine. Talk about lame.

Oh, what is it? I've heard they gave him a definitive origin, but I stopped collecting Marvel by this point. Is it the "Sabretooth is his father in the old west" thing? Or the "Raised by wolverines" one?

Boy, that speaks volumes about the problems with Marvel right there, doesn't it?

 

[LightPhoenix]

...Doctor Strange is my ALL TIME FAVORITE Marvel character.

Doctor Strange is the best!

And yeah, the whole Malibu/Marvel thing totally blew. I stopped collecting seriously a long time ago, but when I heard that I just shook my head.

 

[d4]

well, i don't have anything pertinent on comics to add, but this thread has definitely helped me know what to stay away from when i'm working on my Mutants & Masterminds campaign!

[OT] hey Villano, you're in Mansfield? i went to college there for a few years long time ago. nice little town, if a bit isolated...

 

[Aaron L]

Is it the "Sabretooth is his father in the old west" thing? Or the "Raised by wolverines" one?

You wish the origin was that good

This sums it up better than I can.

http://www.lostsoulwolverine.com/origin.htm

A lot of people seem to like it.

I don't.

Of course, I think the idea that his claws are natural is a joke, and thought that when he had the adamantium ripped from his body was the worst kind of ratings plea. Thats right about when I stopped reading comics. Didn't start again til this year, but now all the X-books suck.

 

[WayneLigon]

I read an interview with the guy who wrote this "origin" and in it he said he wasn't a fan of the character, didn't know anything about him, and that he didn't care what character he wrote about. Sounds like a great guy to put in charge of an origin story to me.

Ah, sounds like the old 'I have a story I want to write and I'll shoehorn it into the next thing I can get a contract on' ploy.

Seriously, how do people that make statements like that in interviews stay employed? Or ever get offered a second job?

 

[danzig138]

who was teaching Snake-Eyes a mystic ninja technique of altering one's heartbeat and breathing to sound like another person!

And at the time, I thought that was the absolute coolest plotline in a comic. I was like "No! He killed the cool old guy who took the street thug's gun apart in the blink of an eye to demonstrate that you didn't need violence once you mastered violence!" Whenever I see that part in Lethal Weapon 4 where he disables the gun, I think of that issue of G.I. Joe.

 

[danzig138]

I can't believe no one's mentioned Marvel's New Universe! Kickers Inc.? StarBrand? Pittsburgh blown off the map? The big MU crossover with everyone's favorite hero, Quasar?

I can't go there with you. Yeah, Kickers Inc and Spitfire sucked big time, but I loved DP7, Nightmask, Justice, and Star Brand. Unfortunately, I went broke and had to quit collecting them, and then I had to sell my comic collection, but I've been slowly trying to get all the New U again (on the cheap). I don't know about the Marvel crossover; I've seen some things about it, but I never read it.

 

[Psychotic Dreamer]

I can't go there with you. Yeah, Kickers Inc and Spitfire sucked big time, but I loved DP7, Nightmask, Justice, and Star Brand. Unfortunately, I went broke and had to quit collecting them, and then I had to sell my comic collection, but I've been slowly trying to get all the New U again (on the cheap). I don't know about the Marvel crossover; I've seen some things about it, but I never read it.

I gotta agree with you on some of that. DP7, Starbrand (early issues) and Psi-Force were some great comics. Interesting characters and in a hell of a setting. And Pittsburg getting blown to kingdome come... Wonderful. The fact it carried over through all the comics? Even better. It's amazing how the New Universe had some of the best and some of the worst comics.