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Post by foxley on Jun 14, 2014 3:54:31 GMT -5
I liked the Action Weekly incarnation of the Secret Six. It was my first exposure to the team (outside of Who's Who) and I'm a big Mission: Impossible fan (the real MI, not the crap they try to peddle in the movies) and I was thrilled to see the concept explored in comics.
I really should seek out the original 60s versions, if I can ever find the comics at a reasonable price.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 14, 2014 9:30:49 GMT -5
I one that comes to mind for me was the Venom 2099 reveal... and really the end of 2099 in general, with the FF coming from the past and the stupid flood thing (alot like Ultimatum, if you thing about it). This was the one I was going to post too. In fact Spider-Man 2099 #29 and X-Men 2099 #17 were two of my first comics in a gas station spinner rack. (though I think the 90s clone saga is worse but at least it gave us the gem of Amazing Spider-Man 400. Though retcons have spit on that). I didn't think the Venom 2099 was so bad as just the cluster ____ attempt to wrap it up. It would have been better cancelled before they published FF 2099 and 2099 World of Tomorrow. What did you think of Manifest Destiny trying to wrap up the loose ends Wildfire? I really like 2099 and most everything except Ravage, but MD came off as to little too late. Or better done with it right the first time. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 14, 2014 12:36:20 GMT -5
I never read it... the editing/FF/flood/X-Nation fiasco made me too bitter.
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Post by the4thpip on Jun 14, 2014 16:47:11 GMT -5
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Post by travishedgecoke on Jun 16, 2014 6:06:36 GMT -5
I one that comes to mind for me was the Venom 2099 reveal... and really the end of 2099 in general, with the FF coming from the past and the stupid flood thing (alot like Ultimatum, if you thing about it). That was a change in editors and just a total mess, as I recall. Punisher 2099 was building up to epic proportions of "what can this guy get away with" and suddenly he's America's top cop and then, with a change in talent, he's just Frank Castle with laser guns. A couple years earlier, Druid, by becoming a mini and ending with Druid's death is either a big payoff or, if you're like me, a good payoff that's hurt by knowing it shouldn't have been the end, but part of growth into something bigger and better. The Pat Mills comic where Stan Lee and some guys go to an alternate Earth full of monstrosities and then, at the end, just walk home to their Earth. That was pretty disappointing. And, painfully, CLAMP's epic X (aka X/1999) will never finish, despite battles getting bigger, the stakes getting higher, the mysteries and tragedies deeper, because of an earthquake and some very personal events in the authors' lives. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 13:45:59 GMT -5
The biggest one of all... Watchmen. 10 issues of tense build up, one issue of (SPOILER ALERT!) fake alien psycho-octopus.
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Post by foxley on Jun 16, 2014 16:35:00 GMT -5
The fake alien psycho-octopus was awesome!
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jun 16, 2014 17:21:40 GMT -5
The fake alien psycho-octopus was awesome! That was, like, pages and pages of giant dead octopus destruction. It was nice to see, after hundreds of pages of claustrophobic little panels, Gibbons just totally go and get his Kirby on. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 16, 2014 17:27:10 GMT -5
The biggest one of all... Watchmen. 10 issues of tense build up, one issue of (SPOILER ALERT!) fake alien psycho-octopus. I actually agree with this. Watchmen is absolutely brilliant. Until the reveal. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 16, 2014 19:07:20 GMT -5
Rick Jones becomes magic and wills the Kree-Skrull War over. Cei-U! I summon the letdown! Kurt, Kurt, Kurt. If you couldn't see the absolute pathos and gut wrenching sacrifice that Rick Jones made by blowing his mind and body out by using his mental potential to stop a war only to lie at deaths door ONLY for Captain Marvel to give up HIS life essence in order for Jones to live, Then, I just don't know what... |
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Post by berkley on Jun 16, 2014 22:47:43 GMT -5
The biggest one of all... Watchmen. 10 issues of tense build up, one issue of (SPOILER ALERT!) fake alien psycho-octopus. I actually agree with this. Watchmen is absolutely brilliant. Until the reveal. The details of Ozymandias's actual plan were a little weak, I agree, but everything else about the ending was really well done, I thought - Ozymandias's personality, the confrontation with Rorshach, etc, etc. |
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Post by paulie on Jun 17, 2014 9:49:23 GMT -5
Omega the Unknown is at the top of my list.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Starlin's Warlock.
Starts off with the Magus Saga which is certainly in my Top 20 of all-time. But then it has the comic relief issue with Pip and Starfox. Then you have the two-issues of the Star Thief which was kind of underwhelming in the face of the Magus saga. Finally things pick up again in issue 15 but are then rushed to a quick conclusion in Avengers Annual 7 and Marvel Two In One Annual 2.
I call that disappointment.
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Post by Randle-El on Jun 17, 2014 22:55:33 GMT -5
It's not a classic comic, but I have to say that Daredevil: End of Days by Bendis definitely fits that bill. For those who haven't read it, it's basically a riff on/homage to Citizen Kane -- Daredevil is beaten to death by Bullseye, and his last word is "Mapone". Ben Urich spends the rest of the story trying to discover the meaning of "Mapone". Except that when the meaning is finally revealed, the story's logic completely falls apart. "Mapone" and "Rosebud" were both McGuffins, but at least in Citizen Kane "Rosebud" makes sense.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jun 19, 2014 14:38:56 GMT -5
Omega the Unknown is at the top of my list. To me, Omega deserves an exemption from this category. Had Gerber and Skrenes been able to bring the series to a conclusion, I'm betting it would have been awesome. The lame ending they crammed onto it in the Defenders shouldn't even be considered part of it. I'd rather think of Omega as "unfinished" |
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Post by Icctrombone on Dec 10, 2017 9:26:54 GMT -5
Tell us about those comic epics whose stakes were huge,where all seemed lost and the resolution was, well, underwhelming A classic example would be the original Galactus trilogy where nothing would stop Galactus from devouring the earth,not even his servant The Silver Surfer turning against him.Nothing in the universe ever stopped Galactus in cosmic history-except something that looked like a can-opener called the Ultimate Nullifier that Reed Richards stole out of Galactus' kitchen It was more. He might have left because of that gadget but now the Marvel Universe was aware of his presence and nothing could ever be the same again. |
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