What's the worst single issue?
Added 2021-01-14 00:13:25 +0000 UTCTell us what one of the worst single issues of a mainstream comic book you've ever read was and why!
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Batman Incorporated (Vol 1, Pre New 52) #8. I actually felt like I wasted my money. There was a lot of talking, but nothing of substance besides some dick-measuring. There was talk about business and artificial reality, but in a way where it seemed like Morrison only had a cursory idea of either, at best. The artificial reality would've been interesting, but it only came off as The Matrix if the Matrix was designed by the guy who made Doom while he was drunk. I am a filthy, filthy purist. I like 2D art in my media, ESPECIALLY when the cover promises 2D art. Instead we got some ugly CG art. Uuuuuuuuuugly CG art.
Just Some Guy with a Mustache
2021-01-18 01:50:03 +0000 UTCAstonishing X-Men Xenogenesis - It's like they put a heat lamp over wax over-exaggerated replicas of the characters and then tried to animate them. The dialogue was also cringe-worthy to the extreme, and not in a 90s so bad it's hilarious way.
3 Cat Day
2021-01-14 16:16:21 +0000 UTCHow could I forget that horror. Both my favorite and least favorite comics of all time tend to be Spider-man comics. He is my favorite character and he has a ton of books, so that makes sense.
Christopher Wolf
2021-01-14 14:32:26 +0000 UTCAvengers number 200. Cringe and god awful which was written by some comic legends.
Joseph Houlihan
2021-01-14 14:12:10 +0000 UTCThe final issue of Batman Eternal was agonizing. The series, on the whole, wasn't absolutely terrible, despite its pacing issues (this was likely helped because I read it in trade, rather than week to week), but what could have been a fun moment in the sun for Batman's lower tier villains like Signal Man and Cluemaster just gets hijacked so that Lincoln March can get some cheap cred. The pseudo Owl Man fight against him was the worst part of Court of Owls, and the second one here was the worst part of that weekly book. It's just such a shame, because there were parts of that story I quite enjoyed, including the reintroduction of Stephanie Brown. But Snyder just had to make March a thing.
Blinky
2021-01-14 06:04:29 +0000 UTCSuperman 16 by Bendis without a doubt. It was a sick reminder that DC threw away its best New Thing and for what? Like who was that issue even for because no self-respecting Super Sons fan bought it? DC and Bendis knew the decision to age up Jon was unpopular and it would do nothing for nobody and yet they went ahead with it and even went out of their way to remind fans that the Super Sons are not coming back in any meaningful way by publishing this issue. I hated the issue even more for wasting the work of a talented artist like David Lafuente. Just imagine him doing an arc or an annual for Super Sons. His style is so full of youth and exuberance it would've been a perfect fit the same way Jorge Jimenez was. So much wasted potential.
Blackagar
2021-01-14 03:37:54 +0000 UTCThe final issue of One More Day. It starts out actually as a fairly poignant story about grief and coming to terms with loss, then that last issue comes along and derails it all so he instead throws it all away and makes a deal with the devil. Way to squander a good story about loss and grieving on stupid editorial needs
Patches
2021-01-14 02:30:48 +0000 UTCIn the past, just spin a dial and pick a random issue of the Clone Saga. Dear lord. I quit comics over it, for years. In modern times, and I am sure I am alone on this, Dark Nights Metal #1. For some reason I could just not accept that the Justice League started out in media res captured and how this happened was never explained. I am convinced the Snyder is better at street level stories than big cosmic events, but that is what he has been doing for the past few years.
Christopher Wolf
2021-01-14 02:22:14 +0000 UTCI've been lucky. As a relatively new reader, I've been catching up and have never followed a series month to month. So I've only read stuff that people say is good. But, that being said, I, for some unknown reason, decided to read Ultimatum, even though I didn't need to because I wasn't really following the ultimate universe other than Spider-Man. I couldn't tell you what happened in it as I have apparently blocked my memory of any and all plot points, presumably done in pity by my brain so that I will never have to recall it. All I remember is my desire to read another comicbook ever again slipping away, yet I still soldiered on. Anyway, I can't answer the question because my memory of it is a big blob of nothing (no pun intended). I don't even remember how many issues there were. But, pick any issue from it and it can probably be my answer. Time for a re-read? Hopefully not.
Emmie
2021-01-14 00:45:03 +0000 UTCRed Hood and the Outlaws #1 (2011) Despite the new 52’s problems it’s what got me into comics, I bought the first issue of Batman, Wonder Woman, Nightwing and Red Hood and the Outlaws, I read the latter first and thought I’d made a huge mistake. Wasn’t until I eventually picked the others up and read Batman that I was like “okay, okay, what’s next” and the rest is history. That red hood issue was so bad I almost stopped before I started.
Gabe Simmons
2021-01-14 00:17:23 +0000 UTC
