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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Holy Bovine" data-source="post: 1242842" data-attributes="member: 203">Coming in late on this (and no I haven't read all 6 pages of the thread but I want to play too!) but my least favourite comic book moment was the ill-fated 'New Universe' put out by marvel in the mid-80's.  About a dozen titles were launched simutaneously and some many of them were complete crap.  Only 2 ever stood out to me as somewhat impressive;  Star Brand (a man is given a powerful weapon in the form of a tattoo from a dying alien - the weapon gives him super strength, flight but now other aliens want it for a great war - actually better than I'm making is sound here)DP-7  (Stands for Displaced Paranormals - 7) a group of average people suddenly find themselves developing strange abilites after a 'White Event' in which the entire earth is bathed in a white light for a brief moment.  The powers were interesting in that they all had real drawbacks.  The 'speedster' of the group had to eat constantly as his accelerated metobolism put a tremendous drain on his body.  The 'muscle' guy was occasionally wracked by pain as new muscles suddenly grew in.  I liked it and it lasted the longest at 36 or so issues.Some of the crap included;Kickers Inc - ex-football players go around beating up computer hackers.  Bland, boring and poorly drawn & written.Marc Hazzerd - Merc - ex-football player turned mercenary (actually I'm not sure if he was a football player but everything I said about Kickers goes double for this)Spitfire & the Troubleshooters - the true dregs.  Big, crappy robot designed by a high school cheerleader's dad before he is killed in the first issue is almost stolen but fortunately the 'Troubleshooters' save the day (and the big, clumsy, crappy robot that sinks 2 feet into soft ground when it moves - whoops guess daddy wasn't quite the genius he's made out to be!).  The TS are more high school computer geeks (maybe they were the same ones Marc Hazzerd was going after?).  Another, more recent, crappy comic is Dark Knight 2.  Now I love Frank Miller's work.  Art, writing, characterization - he does have talent.  So what happened here?  The story is all over the road - fashion as the 'weapon'? Batman's having an affair with a 16 year-old?  Horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE art!  Gah!  I actually bought all three issues of this (because I'm either stupid or a glutton for punishment) hoping, praying it would get better.It didn't.</blockquote>

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