There' also the riff of fighting the same enemy every month is tiresome. The Original Battlestar Galactica had the same problem.Getting top talent to draw the covers is a sign that the series needs something more. 

At 12-15 I liked Rom a lot and bought it every month, and to a lesser length the same was true of Dazzler. I also liked the Sal Buscema Hulk while one Golden drawn Micronauts story had me totally confused trying to read it, and it was a half year and a different artist before I tried the title again. I could read Buscema and Frank Springer comics. Also those 'layouts by Chaykin' comics that could be a bit disappointing or uneven in terms of art. There's something to be said for age appropriate comics. I have no desire to get even one Rom or Dazzler again though while I was getting back various comics I had once had and found myself nostalgic for.

I've never tried Starman, though I've heard about it a fair bit, but I have #1-3 of the 1991 Black Canary with #4 on the way... looks like it will be a solid read. DC seemed better than Marvel somehow in this late late '80s and early '90s window. Marvel had some real bare bones art direction and coloring, the house ads were very plain and dull, and some of the logos created then were equally clumsy. I wonder if that plays into my impression? I tried their Black Cat and Black Knight miniseries and they are not very good, more poor art than story. The Invaders mini was alright, and a keeper, but not as good as the two Justice Society runs (of eight and then ten issues respectively). Later, in the late late '90s, The Invaders in Marvel Universe is great and wanted more!

I did like Mr Zsasz who got introduced in Batman: Shadow of the Bat #1. Also the Knightfall storyline.

I didn't like Marvel at the time...at all. 30 years later I still don't care for McFarlane Spidey. Don't own anything by Rob Liefeld. If comics are a visual medium, his artwork burnt the skin from my eyes.

I'm pretty sure codystarbuck did an overview of them in his Other Guys thread on publishers outside Marvel and DC if you want a more in depth analysis of them. It's hard to generalize about Malibu as they were hardly a monolithic entity in the 90s, and had several imprints they published under. The Ultraverse stuff was a different animal than a lot of their other stuff. Bravura was a creator-owned line that pulled in some heavyweight creators and it too was a different animal than their other lines. Eternity, Aircel and Adventure Comics were all under the Malibu umbrella at different points in the 80s and 90s and each one was a different animal from the other lines as they had different focus and creator pools that they worked with. Most people think only of the shared universe stuff from the Ultraverse line, or are only interested in that, but it is hardly representative of the rest of their output. None of the other stuff was really a unified line of books, as some was done more in the eastern/Manga style, some resembled more self-published/underground stuff in content and quality, some did adaptations of licensed properties, etc. You really have to evaluate it book by book rather than as a whole.

I liked a lot of the Bravura stuff, the Ultraverse was a mixed bag with some strong books, some that were strong ideas poorly executed, some were mediocre concepts with strong creative teams, and some just meh to bad. I liked some of the Cthulhu/Lovecraft books they did under the Adventure imprint, but thought the Lovecraft stuff by Millennium around the same timeframe was better. Some of the Eternity Sherlock Holmes stuff was interesting as were the Crime Comics featuring the Shadow, but by and large the bulk of the output form the sub-imprints of Malibu wasn't stuff I was interested in.

-M

I really liked Firearm at the time, and have a full run still. I used to have a full run of Protectors but I don't remember too much about it either than I wanted it to be a little better than it was. It had promise but never really fulfilled it.

I would give these three unequivocal recommendations.

Age of Bronze is glorious, A Distant Soil is Doran's most interesting and perhaps best work, and Bone is the one comics I would pick if I could only ever read one series over and over again. It is simply delightful and offers something new every time I read it.

-M