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Post by MDG on Jan 10, 2015 17:41:12 GMT -5
Sonic Disruptors was a weird mini-series that got cancelled 2/3 of the way through the book, which was pretty unusual for the 80s. I read that one and remember it being pretty strange and not making a whole lot of sense. The writer once joked that DC decided it would be cheaper to fly him around the country to tell the ending to the few people buying it. |
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Post by foxley on Jan 10, 2015 17:52:36 GMT -5
Batman: The Widening Gyre. A huge steaming pile of drek that completely derailed the character of Silver St. Cloud, and then killed her. But, even worse, it wasn't even a complete story. It 'ended' with the revelation of who the bad guy was. No resolution, no nothing. I guess one reason to be grateful for the New 52 is that we can assume this was wiped from continuity, and we will never the see Widening Gyre II, i.e. the second half of the story (assuming that Kevein Smith ever actually planned on finishing it).
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 10, 2015 18:02:02 GMT -5
War of the Gods was pretty lousy. I get mad at the thought that George Perez left Infinity Gauntlet to do this piece of S#$T. 
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Post by Action Ace on Jan 10, 2015 21:43:44 GMT -5
Dark Knight Strikes Again
Superman/ Wonder Woman: Whom Gods Destroy
Millennium
John Byrne's Genesis
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 10, 2015 22:20:35 GMT -5
I didn't finish (or even start) many of them, but 90s Marvel had a TON of minis for characters that probably didn't need them... Cyclops, Beast, Shatterstar, Domino, a couple for Nightcrawler, etc. They were almost always a 2nd or third rate artist, and were usually ripped off by the main series writer in their spare time (or so it seems). I'd imagine a couple of those would qualify.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jan 10, 2015 23:23:56 GMT -5
Dark Knight Strikes Again For the defense: I loved Strikes Again, read it as almost a cubist rendering of superheroes-in-their-simplest form with every-element-of-life rendered in a slightly darker variant of Kirby bombast, and I was thrilled that it was nothing like it's predecessor. Probably my favorite DC superhero comics of the '00s. (Well, up to the heavily rewritten third issue.) |
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Post by hondobrode on Jan 11, 2015 3:30:18 GMT -5
Agreed.
It was different, but Miller was having fun with it, pushing the envelope.
Genesis was a pretty big let down.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 11, 2015 12:30:07 GMT -5
Here's another vote defending "Dark Knight Strikes Again." I thought it was a lot of fun. Far far far from the worst limited series ever.
If we're going to pick on bad Batman-related limited series, how about "When in Rome"? Not the worst limited series ever, but pretty bad.
I've never read "Widening Gyre" because I heard so many bad things about it. Like Silver's nickname for Bruce. Is this the one where Batman pisses his pants?
I've also purposely avoided All-Star Batman and Robin. Linkara's review of the first issue is hilarious! It's possibly my favorite Linkara review.
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Post by fanboystranger on Jan 11, 2015 12:53:37 GMT -5
Dark Knight Strikes Again For the defense: I loved Strikes Again, read it as almost a cubist rendering of superheroes-in-their-simplest form with every-element-of-life rendered in a slightly darker variant of Kirby bombast, and I was thrilled that it was nothing like it's predecessor. Probably my favorite DC superhero comics of the '00s. (Well, up to the heavily rewritten third issue.) I'm a big fan of DKSA, too. It's a crazy comic filled with wild ideas. It also featured the best Atom story in about 20 years in its first few pages. Plus, the Luthor/Brainiac team berating and threatening Captain Marvel, to which he responds, "You bum." (Which is both incredibly funny to me and seems a quintessential Capt Marvel moment.) My only problem is with the coloring, which did seem way behind the times (and not in an "we're trying to be intentionally retro" sort of way). I think it catches so much heat simply because it's so radically different in tone to DKR and some people have this bizarre thing for Dick Grayson.
All-Star, on the other hand, is kind of a mess. I like the idea of it, but I think they made a severe mistake in having Jim Lee illustrate it as he made it look like any other superhero comic. I think if they approached, say, Sergio Aragones, we'd be praising it as a classic... and it might actually be completed. That issue where they meet Green Lantern and paint the entire interior of the house yellow is a blast, though.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2015 17:35:52 GMT -5
One of the worst series ever!  I think it had only 2 issues before it was cancelled. I've might be wrong here. Revived in the NEW 52 ... ran for 8 issues before it was cancelled in January 2014.  |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 11, 2015 17:42:23 GMT -5
I had no idea the Green Team was a revival.. heck, even CBR refers to it as one of the few original concepts from the group.
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Post by Dizzy D on Jan 11, 2015 18:11:39 GMT -5
You're probably confusing it with The Movement, which was an original series (apart from Rainmaker). Not that it was any better.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jan 11, 2015 18:16:07 GMT -5
The Green Team is great. I'm pretty much on board with anything Joe Simon wrote in the 60's and 70's. The guy was some kind of post-modern, dadaist genius. He was 40 years ahead of his time with this stuff.
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Post by DubipR on Jan 11, 2015 18:21:42 GMT -5
- Identity Disc (Marvel)
- Identity Crisis (DC)
- Infinite Crisis (DC)
- Genesis (DC)
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 11, 2015 19:22:10 GMT -5
- Identity Disc (Marvel) - Identity Crisis (DC) - Infinite Crisis (DC) - Genesis (DC) I especially disliked what Infinte Crisis did to the awesome COIE. But apon rereading it , I realized that it didn't read well on it's own. You needed to know what going on in half a dozen books to understand it. |
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