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If there are any other x-men fans that hate Chuck Austen (the writer that gave us such stinkers as The Draco, Holy War, and Dominant Species) go to www.thexaxis.com/uncannyxmen/uncannyxmen433.htm
Absolutely hilarious
I can't point to a single issue, but the worst story for me was the Millenium crossover "event" from DC. It hijacked the entire DCU for monthes and destroyed at least one supporting character in every book it touched, all to introduce a new team book that fizzled after 6 issues or so. I pretty much stopped buying comics after that until Heroclix dragged me kicking and screaming back into the mainstream.
Secret Wars 2 was a close second. Look, the Beyond is learning how to speak jive!
"Blowing up the moon was a plot point. Blowing up the earth was a tempter tantrum" -- Keith Giffen
Nonono I got ya'll on this. The worst issue was uncanny x-men
424. They had already spent issue 400 with teasers about the church of humanity's leader and how scary and bad ### he is. Then we get a new writer, Chuck Austen.
"Austen jettisons Casey's origin story for the Church of Humanity's Supreme Pontiff - which was about the only interesting thing in the original story - and replaces him with a disillusioned Catholic nun who's been, you guessed it, the victim of sexual abuse in the Catholic church." (found that quote while looking for the exact issue number and i think it says it better than I could)
Their evil plot to take over the world? They somehow will get nightcrawler to be the pope and destroy his image inducer on public tv or something, making him look like the antichrist. Soon after, they use murderous, disintegrating communion wafers so that when catholics the world over take communion, they will all disappear. The emergence of the antichrist and the rapture (nevermind the fact that catholics don't believe in the rapture) will make everyone think the end of the world is coming and somehow the church of humanity takes power from there.
Even the cover sucks, as the cover artists of this time said to themeselves. "Hey, I got a great idea. Lets make every cover just be the team or one member of the team (who doesn't even have to be in the issue, I am not joking) in a cool pose. That way, people will look at the covers and not be able to find the back issue they were looking for because all the covers look the same! MUHUHUHHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
Even being a lame story, with a lame plot twist that wouldn't work even after we have suspended our belief to the point where we believe the rest of whats going on in the x-universe, with a stereotypical villain, it still wouldn't have been the worst issue ever. But lets combine that with the fact that we entirely wasted the 400th issue of a series by making it seem like this was gonna be a great story and throw in the ugly mutant slut Stacy X to annoy everyone to death, and this goes down in history for me as the worst issue ever.
My hat is off to you, good sir. That really does sounds like the most exquisite POS i've ever had the satisfaction of reading about.
Oh, someone asked about something truly awful by Bendis; try Daredevil Ninja. Another great nail in the coffin that is mini's.
Anything by Judd Winick or Jim Mahfood. I'm bored by Mahfood, but I hate Winick.
And seriously, what ever happened to Chuck Austen?! Anything he put his hands on was the worst comic ever. I believe that the amalgam of assistant editors, interns, and 'paid by the word hacks' that he actually was has disbanded.
hmm, everything on here sounds bad, except emerald twilight, which I thought was pretty good, I mean, how can you not love a GL electric chair?
I will nominate the house of M uncanny x-men TPB. It's pretty much
Captain britain: hey! I'm confused!
everyone else: captain britain, whaddaya talking about? things have always been this way!
Roma: I will destroy you all
and they stretched that into a whole bloody TPB
and they kept calling telekinesis "teke" what the hell is that?
I really despise the 5 issue arc of Captain America called 'Ice' with Jae Lee as artist.
It is the worst ever Cap story I have read, and the art is terrible. While the Cuba mission fiasco was rotten, this was worse. Good grief Marvel, didn't you learn ANYTHING from the Spiderman Clone mess? Why in the sam freakin' h-e-double hockey sticks would you ever pull that same carp with Cap?
"Un-fun Dad, un-fun Dad,
He's so bad, he mak'a me mad
Un-fun Dad, un-fun Dad
He's a real cad, Un-fun Dad"
okay how can anybody forget the '"worst stories ever" were the two Infinity sequals. Infinity Crusade and whatever the second POS was Infinity War? Infinity Guanlet was GREAT! I re-read almost as much as I reread V for Vendetta or Dark Knight. But the other two really forgetable with Crusade being really laughable. Infinty egg? What a joke!
okay how can anybody forget the '"worst stories ever" were the two Infinity sequals. Infinity Crusade and whatever the second POS was Infinity War? Infinity Guanlet was GREAT! I re-read almost as much as I reread V for Vendetta or Dark Knight. But the other two really forgetable with Crusade being really laughable. Infinty egg? What a joke!
Come on, dude. You have to admit, that egg would make one awesome omelet.
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okay how can anybody forget the '"worst stories ever" were the two Infinity sequals. Infinity Crusade and whatever the second POS was Infinity War? Infinity Guanlet was GREAT! I re-read almost as much as I reread V for Vendetta or Dark Knight. But the other two really forgetable with Crusade being really laughable. Infinty egg? What a joke!
I loved the V for Vendetta movie and I loved The Watchmen (Way to scrap the screenplay that even Alan "I won't even go see the watchmen movie if you make one" Moore says is "the closest anyone will ever come to The Watchmen" and then go and let a director who has only done one movie, a zombie flick no less, take control of this project, #######s). So of course I really want to read V for Vendetta. The fact that you read it at much as DKR makes me very excited about it.
hmm, everything on here sounds bad, except emerald twilight, which I thought was pretty good, I mean, how can you not love a GL electric chair?
I will nominate the house of M uncanny x-men TPB. It's pretty much
Captain britain: hey! I'm confused!
everyone else: captain britain, whaddaya talking about? things have always been this way!
Roma: I will destroy you all
and they stretched that into a whole bloody TPB
and they kept calling telekinesis "teke" what the hell is that?
I agree the Uncanny X-men HoM stuff sucked. It didn't help that they used a bunch of Xcaliber only characters that I knew nothing about that were only in the book for those few issues. Its like they decided the story needed to be told and looked for a book that wasn't doing anything interesting anyways.....Uncanny X-Men (suprise!) looks like its not doing anything interesting. Lets use that.
I really despise the 5 issue arc of Captain America called 'Ice' with Jae Lee as artist.
Jae Lee is the only artist, whose art could damn near wreck any story, The guy's art is worst than anyone out their. If he ever did anything with Chuck Austen.............it might signal the coming of the end.
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