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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 19, 2016 7:40:21 GMT -5
It's the nature of Comic books for the hero to win. Can you name an issue to time when your favorite hero , or any hero really got beat badly ?
I bring this question up because , I just bought Badger #1. Nobert Sykes , the Badger suffers from multiple personalities and he can turn to them at the most unfortunate times.
I remember when he was fighting a few guys in the older series and he reverted to one of his personalities of a little girl. He was just beat badly.
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Post by Mormel on Feb 19, 2016 7:58:11 GMT -5
I am re-reading Claremont's late 70s X-Men, and there was this glorious fight against Magneto in #104... in which the new X-Men totally get stomped.  The cover is a homage to the very first issue of X-Men, but where in that issue the original X-Men fight Mags to a standstill and he just sort of gets tired of the fight and floats off, here the new team get totally overconfident, which Magneto takes brilliant advantage of. It doesn't help that two of their members are laced with metal, so all Magneto has to do to beat Colossus and Wolverine is flick his wrist and awayyyyy they go! It was an excellent story to put the X-Men in their place a bit after a string of hard-earned victories against the likes of the Sentinels and the Juggernaut. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 19, 2016 9:23:27 GMT -5
Sometimes a cover promises an event of great importance and delivers very little: "this issue everything CHANGES! Nothing will ever be the same again!"... except that in the end, everything is still the same as before.
But some other times, the promise is kept. One such instance was Micronauts #50, "Sometimes the good guys lose!"
"Sound the funeral dirge", says a caption... "Baron Karza is back!"
The long-dead arch-villain from the Microverse returns to the living by consuming the body of a major character, who dies for good.
He then uses of of his detachable hands to choke another major character to death. A third major character attacks the baron in retaliation and is instantly killed by a force bolt. A fourth major character dies of a heart attack as all this is happening. The Micronauts have to run for their lives, their tail between their legs!
HOLY CRAP! Now that's a way to make an entrance!!!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 19, 2016 9:58:10 GMT -5
A great feel-bad story is Daredevil #260, in which several of Hornhead's enemies gang up on him. Just as Matt Murdoch was starting to feel happy in his new life as a penniless disbarred lawyer, Ammo, Bullet, the wildboys, Bushwacker and Typhoid Mary show up one after the other to beat the crap out of him and drop him off a bridge.
This physical destruction would be followed by a mental and a spiritual breakdown as Inferno raged through New York, causing DD to abandon his city and roam the US for many months in a state of shock.
One of Ann Nocenti's great runs in comics!
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Post by MDG on Feb 19, 2016 10:05:43 GMT -5
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 19, 2016 10:35:45 GMT -5
There's that time in Spawn: The Undead #1, when God really gets his "clock cleaned" :/  "Tom Sloan is a man alone in the midst of a crowded city. Too much alcohol has led him to this moment of desperation that now engulfs him. He looks back with regret upon his life, and so plans to end it by jumping off a bridge. A stranger stops him, and asks to hear his hard luck story, after which the stranger tries to convince him that God cares about his soul. Spawn appears and tells him it was trickery, and salvation comes only through redemption. But Tom Sloan decides for himself the direction his life will take." I remember reading it off the stands because of Jenkins, and man did this deliver. The ar was mostly ugly, but the story was a punch in the stomach, something really unexpected from a best selling comic aimed at teenagers. Suffice to say Tom's decision isn't a hopefull one. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2016 11:28:28 GMT -5
Avengers 161  Ultron tears through the Avengers leaving most incapacitated. Vision is knocked out of action for several issues, Cap and Wanda are seen being wheeled off into an ambulance on a gurney at the start of the next issue, Wasp is captured, etc. leaving only 3 Avengers capable of carrying on the fight the next issue, though Thor arrives at the start of the next issue. -M PS though I am sure every issue with Jarvis in it has a potential for a clock being cleaned somewhere in the Mansion.  |
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Post by Mormel on Feb 19, 2016 12:19:17 GMT -5
Avengers 161 Ultron tears through the Avengers leaving most incapacitated. Vision is knocked out of action for several issues, Cap and Wanda are seen being wheeled off into an ambulance on a gurney at the start of the next issue, Wasp is captured, etc. leaving only 3 Avengers capable of carrying on the fight the next issue, though Thor arrives at the start of the next issue. -M PS though I am sure every issue with Jarvis in it has a potential for a clock being cleaned somewhere in the Mansion. I love the bit in this issue where a brainwashed Hank Pym attacks the team (as pictured on the cover) and he shrinks to ant-size, and Wonder Man is all like "Well, at least he can't hurt me!" and Hank just grabs the sole of Wondy's boot and flips him over on his chin. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 19, 2016 16:24:39 GMT -5
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 19, 2016 16:25:51 GMT -5
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 19, 2016 16:33:19 GMT -5
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 19, 2016 17:11:46 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2016 17:22:10 GMT -5
Here's the obvious Superman one...  |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Feb 19, 2016 18:34:40 GMT -5
Any superhero comic from the '70s? Really, it was right around 1980 that creators started putting a narrative premium on showing how "badass" their main characters were. (And I think this was taken to a whole 'nother level after Dark Knight Returns.) But any Marvel or DC book from 1973 will probably have the lead character receiving a beatdown.
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 19, 2016 19:17:25 GMT -5
I was looking for examples from INSIDE the comics. Covers many times, are misleading. Here's Batman taking a beating from Deathstroke in his first series. I want to say #8 ?   |
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