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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 10, 2015 7:04:30 GMT -5
Dc has come out with many poor limited series since Camelot 3000 ( which was great). I nominate this confusing series as one of the worst.  Bad art, bad new characters and they dragged the reader into other titles that they didn't want to buy. And it hasn't been mentioned again in the DC universe. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 10, 2015 10:06:53 GMT -5
Is millemium the one with Harbringer, and where they took random 'regular' people (including a bunch on non-powered supporting characters), and turn them into the new guardians of the universe? That was pretty bad. Sadly, it's not anywhere near as bad as today's 'events' (though Marvel is worse than DC).
I mean they had all the big hype for the 'Justice League War' or whatever it was called, and then ran a 4 month crossover, and it was literally nothing by prologue to Forever Evil.
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Post by MDG on Jan 10, 2015 10:22:46 GMT -5
Yeah. I'm a big fan of both Englehart and Staton, but Millenium didn't work for me at all.i get the feeling that Englehart was interested in the concept, but couldn't really get a compelling story out of it.
Anyone know about the process at DC for picking their big crossover events after Crisis? Millenium, Legends, Invasion were all pretty lackluster.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 10, 2015 10:26:48 GMT -5
I have read only one issue of War of the gods, but that was enough for me to consider it one of the worst things ever published in comics... despite having nice art by no less than George Perez! A prime example of a publisher screwing up its own continuity and setting up many problems for the sake of a completely forgettable "event".
Does Rise of the midnight sons count as some kind of limited series? I can't quite recall if it was an ongoing, a limited series tied with the launch of a new line or just a banner across a few titles... but anyway, the one issue I have was astonishingly crappy.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 10, 2015 10:28:22 GMT -5
Yeah. I'm a big fan of both Englehart and Staton, but Millenium didn't work for me at all.i get the feeling that Englehart was interested in the concept, but couldn't really get a compelling story out of it. Anyone know about the process at DC for picking their big crossover events after Crisis? Millenium, Legends, Invasion were all pretty lackluster. Invasion had one redeeming quality: it had a lot of pages in each issue and had the zany feel of a 50s sci-fi movie. Which I suppose are two qualitites. |
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Post by The Captain on Jan 10, 2015 10:43:37 GMT -5
I have read only one issue of War of the gods, but that was enough for me to consider it one of the worst things ever published in comics... despite having nice art by no less than George Perez! A prime example of a publisher screwing up its own continuity and setting up many problems for the sake of a completely forgettable "event". Does Rise of the midnight sons count as some kind of limited series? I can't quite recall if it was an ongoing, a limited series tied with the launch of a new line or just a banner across a few titles... but anyway, the one issue I have was astonishingly crappy. "Rise of the Midnight Sons" was a storyline that was bookended by two issues of Ghost Rider (#28 and 31) and had the debut issues of Nightstalkers, Morbius, Darkhold, and Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance in the middle. Each book was polybagged and came with 1/6 of a poster that, when put together, made one entire image.
So, no, not a limited series but rather a banner tied to the launch of new titles.
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Post by hondobrode on Jan 10, 2015 13:22:17 GMT -5
Millenium was Shakespeare compared to this steaming pile of dreck. Honestly, I'd give this the lowest score possible. It was so bad I think I literally threw it away. I read it desperately looking for any redeeming value and a fan of the original Hulk mini it was modeled after.    Honestly, Angel Medina, Brad Vancata, Ivan Velez Jr, and Bobbie Chase should all be ashamed of themselves. This is seriously not only the worst mini I've ever read, but easily the 3 worst comics I've ever read. Ever |
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Post by Pharozonk on Jan 10, 2015 13:24:30 GMT -5
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Post by earl on Jan 10, 2015 13:26:27 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.
With big super hero crossover mini-series it is usually just easier to list ones that are worth reading, as so many of them range from at least disappointing to flat out terrible. At least for story cohesiveness, they get it wrong much more often than they get it right.
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Post by fanboystranger on Jan 10, 2015 14:40:35 GMT -5
I picked up Mephisto vs... limited series for $2 a few weeks ago, and I've been slowing working my way through it. Too say that it's not good is an understatement. If it didn't have John Buscema art, I'd say it would be unreadable. Just terrible.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 10, 2015 14:47:57 GMT -5
I'm tempted not to offer up any candidates for worst limited series because I'm not sure I've read anything bad enough to compete with some of the suggestions already offered. They sound really awful. (And I remember some of the Millennium cross-over issues. Pretty bad. More on that in a moment.) But then I remember that I bought all four issues of this on a whim:  Is Blood Pack as bad as I remember? |
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Post by Pharozonk on Jan 10, 2015 14:48:35 GMT -5
I'm tempted not to offer up any candidates for worst limited series because I'm not sure I've read anything bad enough to compete with some of the suggestions already offered. They sound really awful. (And I remember some of the Millennium cross-over issues. Pretty bad. More on that in a moment.) But then I remember that I bought all four issues of this on a whim: Is Blood Pack as bad as I remember? Linkara did a pretty good review on Bloodpack #1. It's weird seeing an otherwise good writer like Andy Lanning on a book like that. |
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Post by Dizzy D on Jan 10, 2015 14:59:14 GMT -5
That Abominitions series, I had never even heard of it.
Worst limited I've read was Image's Shattered Image, which was a real shame because it had Kurt Busiek writing and Karl Kesel on art, so that's quite the pedigry. I haven't read it since it came out though, so it might be better than I thought back then.
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Post by fanboystranger on Jan 10, 2015 15:00:07 GMT -5
I'm tempted not to offer up any candidates for worst limited series because I'm not sure I've read anything bad enough to compete with some of the suggestions already offered. They sound really awful. (And I remember some of the Millennium cross-over issues. Pretty bad. More on that in a moment.) But then I remember that I bought all four issues of this on a whim: Is Blood Pack as bad as I remember? Linkara did a pretty good review on Bloodpack #1. It's weird seeing an otherwise good writer like Andy Lanning on a book like that. Andy was just the inker on that book. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 10, 2015 15:00:51 GMT -5
Is Blood Pack as bad as I remember? Linkara did a pretty good review on Bloodpack #1. It's weird seeing an otherwise good writer like Andy Lanning on a book like that. Linkara is pretty awesome. I like it that he can recognize the difference between truly bad comics and comics that don't appeal to him. When he makes a choice for a review, you can count on hearing about a bad comic and not just about something that has angered an easily-angered fanboy.
I don't think I ever saw the Blood Pack review. I'll have to look for it.
And mentioning Linkara reminds me of another candidate for worst limited series: Kamandi at World's End. So bad. I got it cheap without knowing much about it. I sometimes think about throwing it in the trash lest it corrupt other comics in my collection and bestow some of its major suckitude upon them. (It has so much to spare.)
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