I can think of several, but one tops them all-- Emerald Twighlight. I stopped reading GL cold at that point, and it soured me on mainstream comics quite a bit, as well. I was down to only a few super-hero comics after that.

Others, many GL related:

The ACW story where Hal's lack of fear is revealed to be a mistaken side-effect of the ring. Bleah.

Emerald Dawn, where Hal is turned into an alcoholic @$$hole, as well as messing with Sinestro.

The GL v 1 story where it is "revealed" that the Guardians made the yellow weakness on purpose, there's a civil war among the corps, and (if I remember correctly) Hal becomes some sort of barbarian character breifly-- then it was all revealed to be a dream.

Others:

Secret Wars. I know a lot of people love this, but it messed with comics I was reading, was itself a poor story, and set the standard for crossovers to be thrown-together messes with weak plots and "events."

Death of Superman. Did anybody *like* this pointless story? Was there any draw *except* to see Superman die? The 1960's imaginary Death of Superman is 1000x better.

I think that's enough for now.

Oh yeah-- and Anvengers Disassembled. Worse for the fact that it came from Bendis, who I generally like.

There's a trick to reading Emerald Twilight. Don't look at it as the story that ruined Hal Jordan. Don't look at it as destroying a Silver Age icon. Look at it as a modern day Greek Tragedy. That's how I stomached it. The only good thing to come out of Emerald Twilight was Kyle. You should also note that this trick also works with Metallica - St. Anger.

In its defense, Secret Wars was done solely to draw attention and market Marvel's new toyline of figures. That was its primary purpose.

I agree wholeheartedly. This event was one of a couple reasons I gave up on DC comics as a whole for 10+ years.

The other was that whole Hal Jordan/Parallax/Spectre debacle.

Now for my worst comic of all time.

Spider-Man - Maximum Clonage Omega

Remember this? In my opinion, this is where the Clone Saga not only jumped the shark, but did a barrel roll and ate a monkey whole as well. They could have ended the original Clone Saga there, but they didn't. Hell, the original plan was to end the Clone Saga at ASM #400. But we all know that didn't happen. We know that is dragged out and dragged out and dragged out (mostly due to editorial changes and marketing "input") and didn't end until PP:SM #75 where Ben Reilly died. Personally, I thought Ben Reilly was a great character. They could have done so much outside of what Peter normally did with Ben and had it still feel like Spider-Man.

I'm sure we could raise enough money to make this happen, fairly easily.

If he stomps Bendis in the head, in the process, show me were I can make a donation.

Ok, I might get thrashed for this, but I really don't see what's so wrong with Bendis. Granted, that the only work of his that I read is Ultimate Spidey and the New Avengers. Which are both good, with an exception of a few issues. I also read House of M, which I thought was great, though that is where I started reading comics in the main 616 universe(Even though that was in a different reality, or w.e they want to call it) so what books has he written that are just terrible?

I liked it, for reasons other than seeing Superman die. I liked it for the way Superman cut loose, for the introduction of Doomsday-an unstoppable force, I like it for spawning Steel, and I like it for Superman making the ultimate sacrafice to stop Doomsday. So yes, I liked it for everything but the death.

I liked the Death of Supes trilogy. It got me to read Superman back when I was a total Marvelite.

Anyway, as for the worst comic I ever read, it has to be Brigade, or Bloodstrike, or anything from Image's Extreme Studios back in the 90's. I liked the Wildstorm, Top Cow and Mcfarlane stuff, but the titles from Extreme really sucked IMO.

I see lots of $1 bins filled with those titles. Almost everywhere I look, so you must be onto something.

Which one are you referring to? If you are talking about MSH Secret Wars, I thought that was enjoyable. If you are talking about Secret Wars II, that was the worst PoS ever. I hate you, Jim Shooter.

For me, the worst, rank, PoS ever devised by human brain and hand:


Stormwatch #1 hands down.

I paid for the book with my weekly usuals back then and figured I had liked Spawn ok so I figured I'd try this.

I read it outside the store and literally crumpled it up and threw it in a neighboring trash can. I don't think it even deserved to be taken care of that nicely. If I had a SuperIncinerator 5000, maybe then that foul comic book wouldn't taint the graces of this good Earth.

Maybe.....

Everyone who hate civil war spider-man don't worry because i am betting all my money that someone (cough cough scarlet witch) Slaps the #### out of the whole story line with some BS "o i warped everyones mind so they don't remeber this"!

And wtf wasn't Johnah's expressiong like HOLY ####!!!

Sorry for all the cursing usually i don't use french ( ) but seriousy i hate it when they kill a good story that that!

-Eric Hutt

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.