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Post by Warmonger on Sept 2, 2017 11:07:01 GMT -5
I hate: Anything by Liefield Campy 50s Batman Green Lantern Superman (sacrelige, I know) This Almost every bit of Green Lantern and Superman that I've sampled (Byrne's run on Superman aside) has been as interesting as wet cardboard. At least the Hal Jordan persona that I'm familiar with has always been a bore and Superman has always been the virtually invincible Boy Scout. That was the main reason that I liked Byrne's run. When he toned back some of the ridiculousness and humanized Supes a bit to where he couldn't wait to finish kicking Metallo's ass so he could jet back to Kansas and have a nice, quiet supper with Ma and Pa Kent. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Sept 2, 2017 11:12:42 GMT -5
I'm with you guys on Thanos.. it especially annoys me that his first appearance is in Iron Man. I didn't use to hate Lobo... I was fine with him as Wolverine Parody... but not that he's being played straight on a JLA team with Batman, I really really can't stand him.
I agree 100% with Cei-U on Mantis... she bugs the crap out of me. There's just no reason for her to be so important.
The one I really hate that no one has mentioned yet is Psylocke. She is everything bad about comic book stereotypes to me, and her existence makes me angry.
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Post by batusi on Sept 2, 2017 12:04:03 GMT -5
Speaking of Psylocke and the X-Men...I never cared for Gambit, what exactly is his appeal? Although if we get on the subject of Mutants I can name quite a lot that I really have no use for!
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Sept 2, 2017 12:37:20 GMT -5
Deadpool
Gwenpool
Martian Manhunter
New Superman (the chinese one)
Lobo (everything other than the Bisley stuff)
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 2, 2017 12:47:21 GMT -5
Deadpool Gwenpool M artian ManhunterNew Superman (the chinese one) Lobo (everything other than the Bisley stuff) Now take that back. How can you hate the poignance...  the power...  the pal?  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2017 13:12:51 GMT -5
When comic books try & be too "realistic". Really? Realism in a medium where people dress up in costumes to fight evil? I read comics for escapism. If I want "realism" I can watch the news. There's a difference between realism and verisimilitude. Realism I can take or leave, but I have trouble getting through books that lack a certain level of verisimilitude, even if it is escapist fantasy. And even escapist stories should have some kind of thematic underpinning so that it can be experienced at multiple levels by different readers. -M |
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Sept 2, 2017 13:49:48 GMT -5
Never read a Martian Manhunt story where he wasn't a B grade Superman
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2017 14:01:21 GMT -5
Never read a Martian Manhunt story where he wasn't a B grade Superman Read the 3 issue prestige mini Martian Manhunter: American Secrets...  no B grade Superman story here... -M |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 2, 2017 14:02:21 GMT -5
Never read a Martian Manhunt story where he wasn't a B grade Superman Try Martian Manhunter: American Secrets by Gerard Jones and Ed Barretto. It's set in the 1950s and has a noir/SF sensibility. Very fun. Also the Martian Manhunter series from 1998 by Ostrander and Mandrake. Not as good as their Spectre series, but I don't think those two could make a bad comic if they tried. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2017 14:08:19 GMT -5
Never read a Martian Manhunt story where he wasn't a B grade Superman Try Martian Manhunter: American Secrets by Gerard Jones and Ed Barretto. It's set in the 1950s and has a noir/SF sensibility. Very fun. Also the Martian Manhunter series from 1998 by Ostrander and Mandrake. Not as good as their Spectre series, but I don't think those two could make a bad comic if they tried. jinx you owe me a Coke!  -M |
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Post by The Captain on Sept 2, 2017 14:18:08 GMT -5
I'll repeat the same thing I write every time one of these type of threads/questions come up:
I hate Rick Jones. He's a useless pile of garbage who has infected nearly every corner of the MU at one point in time or another with his inanity. Bruce Banner should have let the little twerp get atomized, and while that would have deprived the world of the Hulk, it would also have prevented this crapweasel from being foisted upon us.
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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 2, 2017 16:44:48 GMT -5
When comic books try & be too "realistic". Really? Realism in a medium where people dress up in costumes to fight evil? I read comics for escapism. If I want "realism" I can watch the news. There's a difference between realism and verisimilitude. Realism I can take or leave, but I have trouble getting through books that lack a certain level of verisimilitude, even if it is escapist fantasy. And even escapist stories should have some kind of thematic underpinning so that it can be experienced at multiple levels by different readers. -M I've always maintained that if you ground your story in emotional reality, your audience with go along with the farthest-out fantasy touches. Cei-U! I summon the words to write by! |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Sept 2, 2017 16:53:13 GMT -5
This is an easy one, but I can't stand Deadpool in the comics or any of his mind-numbingly annoying spin-off series. Gwenpool might be the most annoying to me. It still chaps my behind that I liked the Deadpool movie as much as I did. Ugh!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Sept 2, 2017 17:08:42 GMT -5
The one I really hate that no one has mentioned yet is Psylocke. She is everything bad about comic book stereotypes to me, and her existence makes me angry. As far as I am concerned, you just won the internet for the day! |
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 2, 2017 17:22:34 GMT -5
Never read a Martian Manhunt story where he wasn't a B grade Superman Read the 3 issue prestige mini Martian Manhunter: American Secrets... no B grade Superman story here... -M Oh, there was one in the 50's, too? |
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