|
|
Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 10, 2015 18:12:06 GMT -5
Agreed! Decathlon is at least three times the character he is!  |
|
|
|
Post by spoon on Jan 10, 2015 18:31:46 GMT -5
I don't know if there's any character in comicdom that is universally panned. Even Ben Reilly has fans. But as for characters that, quite simply, no one cares about, how about Rob Liefeld's Feral:  While most of the completely unoriginal characters he shoved into the final issues of New Mutants in order to earn some royalties were pretty forgettable, Feral strikes me as having been the most thoroughly useless, especially since the New Mutants already had a half-wolf girl. Yes, you picked the winner. Liefeld & Nicieza created a new "hero" only to make her incredibly loathsome within a few issues. Might as well just lock the thread now. |
|
|
|
Post by foxley on Jan 10, 2015 18:35:50 GMT -5
Yeah, he was pretty bad... the spot that wouldn't come out of the otherwise stellar Busiek Avengers run. That he was a token minority made it even worse. Doesn't the Avengers have a track record of this? I thought the Falcon was specifically added to the team so they would have a member of a minority group. |
|
|
|
Post by Cei-U! on Jan 10, 2015 18:40:38 GMT -5
I must be the only comics fan out there who actually liked Triathlon (or at least I appreciated the narrative function he was intended to fill). I can think of lots of characters worse than poor Delroy.
Cei-U!
I summon the track shoes!
|
|
|
|
Post by Icctrombone on Jan 10, 2015 18:45:46 GMT -5
I must be the only comics fan out there who actually liked Triathlon (or at least I appreciated the narrative function he was intended to fill). I can think of lots of characters worse than poor Delroy. I can't. |
|
|
|
Post by Cei-U! on Jan 10, 2015 18:52:29 GMT -5
Then you need to read more. Try Dell's Frankenstein, Dracula or Werewolf.
Cei-U!
I summon the anti-recommendation!
|
|
|
|
Post by Icctrombone on Jan 10, 2015 18:58:03 GMT -5
Then you need to read more. Try Dell's Frankenstein, Dracula or Werewolf. Cei-U! I summon the anti-recommendation! Cei-U , I intentionally stay away from drek. That's why I didn't like Delroy thrust into my Enjoyment of the Busiek/Perez run. |
|
|
|
Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 10, 2015 20:08:36 GMT -5
Ima thinkin Vibe n Gypsy suck too, Marvel aint got dibs on dis one(but Triathlon was high on the suckage list too).
|
|
Crimebuster
CCF Podcast Guru
Making comics!
Posts: 3,958 
|
Post by Crimebuster on Jan 10, 2015 20:09:33 GMT -5
I didn't think Triathlon was that bad. Maybe a bit one dimensional.
...see what I did there?
|
|
|
|
Post by Hoosier X on Jan 10, 2015 20:39:52 GMT -5
Ima thinkin Vibe n Gypsy suck too, Marvel aint got dibs on dis one(but Triathlon was high on the suckage list too). I wondered when the conversation was going to drift to the Detroit League.
I liked the Detroit League. The storyline where they fought Amazo was the best Amazo story I ever read. It got pretty bad at the end though, but it was never as bad as the scoffers said it was.
|
|
|
|
Post by Action Ace on Jan 10, 2015 21:21:45 GMT -5
I must be the only comics fan out there who actually liked Triathlon (or at least I appreciated the narrative function he was intended to fill). I can think of lots of characters worse than poor Delroy. Cei-U! I summon the track shoes! I didn't mind Triathlon. That probably puts him ahead of 3/4 of all Marvel characters for me.  |
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2015 21:45:56 GMT -5
I can't think of a specific character but it would probably be a random LoSH or X-Men character...
|
|
|
|
Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 10, 2015 22:27:47 GMT -5
I can't think of a specific character but it would probably be a random LoSH or X-Men character... That's were I got Mind Meld from (X-Force). I think alot of the others people have mentioned were at least strong enough to come back... hek, Triathlon even came back to be useful during Civil War. I'm not a Legion expert, but Comet Queen's easily my least favorite... the dialogue (which, accoring to the letters page was 'approved' by Keith Giffen's daughter as hip or whatever) give the 60s Titans a run for their money.  |
|
|
|
Post by fanboystranger on Jan 10, 2015 23:48:20 GMT -5
I must be the only comics fan out there who actually liked Triathlon (or at least I appreciated the narrative function he was intended to fill). I can think of lots of characters worse than poor Delroy. Cei-U! I summon the track shoes! I liked Triathlon, too. The costume was kind of a disaster, but I thought Delroy was an interesting character-- a guy looking for redemption who threw in with a sketchy self-help movement. He was meant to be flawed, but his flaws were relatable. |
|
|
|
Post by starscape on Jan 11, 2015 13:47:15 GMT -5
I'd go for Rage of (incredibly) Avengers and New Warriors 'fame'. What was the point of him? Boring origin - gets hit on the head by radioactive gunk. Boring powers - super strong and...well, that's about it! How long did that take to think up? Terrible costume. Just a bad wrestler. Completely derivative and totally, utterly pointless.  |
|
