What Were They Thinking? Worst Comic Ideas.

[TiQuinn]

1) Wolverine has all the metal ripped from his body only to reveal that he has, GASP......bone claws? LAME-O. I stopped reading X-Men and comics in general shortly thereafter.

2) Crisis on Infinite Earths. The story made no sense, and was born out of some overriding need to explain why there's a golden age Flash and a silver age Flash, golden age Superman and silver age Superman, etc., etc. The end result? Huh? Who cares? John Byrne comes along and rewrites the history of Superman anyways so the whole point is moot.

3) Annual crossover stories at Marvel. It's not like they could write decent story arcs in the 9 other months of the year, but every summer Marvel would crank out a massive story arc that spanned every comic it had.

Acts of Vengeance, Secret Wars II, Evolutionary War, Atlantis Attacks, Infinity War, Infinity Crusade, and on and on and on.

All of them, pretty horrible.

Of course, the X-Men always had to have their little party that would be billed as the biggest fight of all time..Mutant Massacre (actually pretty cool), Inferno, X-Tinction Agenda, X-cutioners Song, etc., etc.

In the end, they were all mostly confusing messes that just mucked up everyone's stories for the sake of having something "BIG" happen.

 

[Macbeth]

(I think Crisis was great, same for Morrison's JLA, and Origin. Just my two bits.)

Worst Comic Idea EVER:
Not a story idea, but a general comic idea: Multiple Alternate Super Shiny Metallic Platinum Limited Edition Collect-Me-Or-Die Covers. 'Nuf Said.

 

[TiQuinn]

(I think Crisis was great, same for Morrison's JLA, and Origin. Just my two bits.)

Worst Comic Idea EVER:
Not a story idea, but a general comic idea: Multiple Alternate Super Shiny Metallic Platinum Limited Edition Collect-Me-Or-Die Covers. 'Nuf Said.

Not to mention special bagged first issues.

DON'T OPEN IT! DON'T OPEN IT! It won't be worth anything if you open it!

Along these lines:

The Death of Superman....granted, DC didn't know it was going to spark a frenzy of wannabe baby-boomer collectors paying $30 each to get the book, but they knew exactly what they were doing when less than a year later came The Return of Superman.

Image comics. The whole stinking line.

On the flip side...Valiant Comics aka good writers....what's an artist?

 

[MarauderX]

Cynical Man anyone?

How about any of those other starving-artist comics out there?

 

[Macbeth]

How about any of those other starving-artist comics out there?

Except some of those are good. take a look at Generic Comicbook. Or "So you Want to be a Supervillan..." Just because the are starving dosen't mean the work isn't good, it just means its not mass media friendly.

 

[WizarDru]

Image comics. The whole stinking line.

Baby. Bathwater.

Or to put it another way: 3 Geeks. Powers. Rising Stars. Bone. Astro City. Age of Bronze. Planetary. The Authority. Ellis' Stormwatch. Barry Ween.


They still put out tons of drek, but they did grow up some.

 

[Macbeth]

Planetary. The Authority. Ellis' Stormwatch.

Unless I'm missing something, these are from Wildstorm, which has nothing to do with Image, but is related to DC in some way (as a imprint I believe)

 

[Numion]

I don't read comics, but this thread makes me thank god (or the producers) they've not stayed too true to the source materials when making the movies X-men 2 and spider-man. While I don't read the comics, I'm a huge fan of the movies, especially those two.

 

[WizarDru]

Unless I'm missing something, these are from Wildstorm, which has nothing to do with Image, but is related to DC in some way (as a Imprint I believe)

You missed something. Wildstorm used to be a part of Image, before they had various fallouts. DC eventually picked Wildstorm up, but they were originally a part of Image.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

This all makes me think I haven't missed much since giving up comics 6-7 years ago. I don't think I would have the slightest clue as to what was what if I picked up a title today. I kind of liked The Dark Knight II series, but I only read that becuase I loved DK1 way back when.

So Image Comics broke up? Some good art, some horrible art, and almost universally horrible storytelling.

Is the Legend crew still doing non-mainstream stuff? Or are they all back on Marvel and DC titles? Miller, Byrne, Chadwick, Mignolia, and Adams were the members If I remember. Next Men was a great book and too bad nothing else ever came out of it.