Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities What's the Worst Comic Out There That You Made the Mistake of Buying

For me, it's got to be the new "Challengers of the Unknown" limited series. Horrible amateurish art, incomprehensible plot. Jack Kirby would roll over in his grave at seeing this piece of junk. (And to make matters worse, I have 4 issues so far, because I keep forgetting to tell my CBS that I don't want it anymore.)

Marvel did a limited series in the 90's called STARBLAST.

Not even my love for Adam Warlock could get me to buy more than the first issue. The art was by veteran Herb Trimpe in that Liefeld-esque style he adopted towards the end of his career in an attempt to keep "current", and thus keep working.

Sad, sad, sad. And I couldn't tell you anything about the story.

The 90s is full of absolute CRAP Marvel stuff.

Semi, I dropped that CHALLS mini after the first horrible issue. I was actually taken aback by how bad it was.

It does, in fact, read like a crappy mid-90s comics.

Lash, I'd be glad to send you the other issues. I need someone to share the pain with.

The current Doom Patrol!

I love the current Doom Patrol. That four armed monkey man "Grunt" is a work of genius!

I have the entire run of "The Titans". I don't think there is a single not-awful issue in the entire run yet I never stopped buying it.

When a local comic shop closed in the 90s I got three long boxes for $20 or something like that. But to fill the long boxes I chose a lot of questionable drek that I'm blanking on. Thankfully...

OUUUCH!

Two Words: Alpha Flight.

As a canuck I had to try the new series. Man was it ever bad. I have not even been sucessful in my attempts to give the damn thing away. I'd light it on fire but I doubt it would even burn right!

X-Men around 98 or 99. I won't touch another X-Men comic ever it was that bad. Age of Apocolypse story line or something like that.

I found The Wanderers to be pretty boring. I can't say that I was all that happy with the five year gap stuff either.

Caveat: I haven't bought too much stuff outside of The Legion since the X-Men excursion so I don't have alot of titles to choose from.

I'll echo the sentiments on Challengers. I actually dropped it after issue one, although I had already pre-ordered #2.

I also never bothered to order the final issue of Seaguy. What an incomprehnsible mess that one was. And worse, I see Morrison chastising fans in the press for not "getting it."

Actually I've rather gotten into Alpha Flight this time and have enjoyed every issue thus far. It isn't as funny as SHE-HULK but it has at least one or two chuckle-y moments per issue, for me.

Yeah, Lobdell's AF isn't anywhere near that bad.

For me: Crapuation Day. Awful art, nonsensical story, everyone out of character and Winick couldn't even get the frelling LINEUPS of the teams he was destroying right.

And, although I was given it rather than paid for it, I have to agree with Pov that Starblast was awful and wrecked the tail-end of Quasar.

Challengers of the Unknown is horrible. Semi is right, Kirby is rolling over in his grave.

The final issues of Superboy were absolute crap. Terrible.

Lots of shitty DC/Marvel titles in the 90's: Firebrand, Manhunter, Fate, Forceworks, and so many others. Who could forget the twenty Ghost Rider/Punisher/Spider-Man/Wolverine comics and mini's that would be out every month in the early 90's. And most of them were utter crap!

The worst comic run that I think I've ever read however, *has* to be the first 12 issues of the current Aquaman series. It's just that bad.

I recently bought a bunch of dollar-bin AVENGERS from the mid-nineties involving "The Crossing" cross-over event.
I think my eye balls have cancer now.

And I must say that I thought the Wanderers series from the late eighties was pretty bad. I really tried to get into it, but found it utterly boring.

Avengers "The Crossing"...ugh...such utter crap...

Some of these send chills down the spine with bad memories!

My worst purchase was the entire set of The Invisibles, of which I'd read heaps of accolades. When I saw it on eBay, I went for it - and will never again buy that much stuff unseen. I know some people just loved it, but I thought it was unreadable - and I compounded the error by getting Anarchy for the Masses, which was supposed to explain the whole thing, and which just pissed me off.

I kinda liked Seaguy - but I really don't think it was very good.

I echo everyone here and name "Challengers" as the most sucky recent thing to come along in quite some time.

I also really hated the recent Catwoman/Batman Trail of A Gun thing from Ann Nocenti... absolutely terrible b/c it wasn't a story, it was a polemic, and not a particularly good one at that... and I pre-ordered BOTH crappy-ass prestige-format issues... AND she was preachin' to the choir to me b/c of my own experience with guns... couldn't they have at least marketed the story for what it was?.. yuck yuck yuck

Has anyone mentioned the Larsen/Busiek DEFENDERS fiasco?

I still can't figure out how it got up to twelve issues. I managed to get up to number 8 before I finally had to throw in the towel.

I love the characters and the concept, and usually love Busiek's writing, so I gave this a chance to grow on me... it never did. Awful, awful, awful. Not even Carlos Pacheco's artwork on the follow-up(replacement?) series The Order could brng me back in for even a look.

You DO have to give 'em points for chutzpah, though... they apparently revelled in their shittiness. The blurb over the title on the cover of #8 reads: " 'The worst comic ever produced'--The Comic Journal"

It would've been funnier if it hadn't been so damn true!

I loved the Invisibles. to each their own...

My list generally dates to the 80s (as I was more selective by the 90s):
Sectaurs
the Thing
ROM
Captain America
Alter Ego
All-Star Squadron (post-Ordway)

I am now officially happy I passed on this.

For me, the most sucky recent thing to come along are Devin Grayson's recent issues of Nightwing, but I'm not buying that anymore, so maybe that doesn't count.

I'm finding it hard to think of anything I've ever hated as much as Graduation Day!

A truly, truly horrid pile of sh!t that failed (and worse) on every single level! And I'm not even that much of a Donna Troy fan - it was just honestly THAT bad.

After that (and for pissing all over all the good work that Brad Meltzer and Kevin Smith did on Green Arrow) Judd Winnick officially became the first and only writer on my "Never Buy Anything By Again" list.

actually, Blacula indirectly reminded me of Another Nail, the most recent won't-flush-down I've picked up lately.

So... what's done nothing for you lately?