I'm trying to compile a list of the worst comic book arcs ever. So far, ranking high on my personal list, is:

Spider-Man: One More Day
Nightwing: Brothers in Blood
Punisher: Purgatory
Batman: Hush Returns
Spider-Man: Sins Past
Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again

I figured this was as good a place as any to ask what others think. So, in a completely opinion based way, what do YOU, personally, think were the worst comic book storylines/arcs ever?

I don't know about an arc, but as a whole NFL Superpro was pretty dreadful.

Marvel Team-Up #28: Hercules tows Manhattan Island back into place after it was severed by earthquake-generating super-villains.

Superboy #192: The whole premise of this story is that Superboy knew in advance that Bruce Wayne's parents would be murdered, and allowed it to happen.

World's Finest #207: Dr. Light discovers that he can take over Superman's mind and control his actions. What does he order the Man of Steel to do? Destroy his Justice League comrades? Fly into the heart of a red sun? Expose his secret identity to the world? No...he has Superman, in his civilian identity, hire some goons to attack Superman using a "magical light" weapon that Dr. Light himself hid inside a mountain and then had Superman dig out.

JLA #5: The newly-reformed JLA has a recruitment drive. Hitman shows up, tells the World's Greatest Super-Heroes that he is a paid assassin, then walks out. Scot free. They let him. After that, they dismiss the applications of such heroes as Guy Gardner and Supergirl. Finally, Tomorrow Woman (whom nobody has ever heard of and has no reputation behind her) arrives. She's in! Alas, she is an android (which the heroes, with their telepathy and X-ray vision, somehow couldn't tell) built by T.O. Morrow and Professor Ivo to betray them. All the while, the League has been battling a strange creature called IF. They know nothing about it; what it is, where it comes from, what it wants. All they know about it, somehow, is its name. Even though it can't speak.

Aw, I thought this was the meeting place for the Chuck Austen Fan Club!

While I'm here, I may as well nominate Identity Crisis and Countdown to Infinite Crisis.

Why? Because I was a Blue Beetle fan. Not to mention Sue Dibny. Even if she didn't have powers or a suit or an arch-nemesis, she was too good a character for what they had happen to her.

Well, in his defense, maybe this was after the mind-wipe.

No, can't have been. WF #207 came out in 1971, before Zatanna or even Elongated Man were JLA members.

I'm a Blue Beetle fan.

I think Countdown to Infinite Crisis was one of the better Blue Beetle stories written. Certainly it was one of the few to take him seriously ever since he was in the JLI - and what surge in popularity Ted enjoys now is due strongly in part to the story.

And while Identity Crisis was horrific on a number of levels, I'd hardly consider it one of the worst comics, either. It also helped set-up 52 - which is one of the best series of the past two years - which gave a happy ending to Ralph and Sue.

Bad things happening to good people does not a bad story make.

As for my nomination, I'll just nominate every superhero comic with Judd Winick's name on it. The man's a hack. Barry Ween's decent, but slap a cape on the character and watch everything turn to trash.

Maybe not, but the rape and/or murder of minor characters for drama's sake does not make a good story.

These stories weren't grim, weren't gritty. They were just bleak and depressing.

Superman: At Earth's End

it's from 1995, it's an elseworlds, and it's the WORST COMIC BOOK EVER MADE !

That's a strong accusation considering One More Day is out there. Could I convince you to maybe give us the plot?

NFL SuperPro was the worst comic idea ever. But, I am not sure it should qualify for worst comic book ever.

The only time I ever asked for my money back from a comic book store was the last issue of Identity Crisis. Man, that thing sucked.

Anyone remember The Generic Comic Book?

I'm going to have to second Hush Returns.

The original Batman: Hush was phenomenal, but the sequel smudged Hush as a character, and fell lightyears short of its predecessor.

No one's ever come across Kickers, Inc.? Or how about the Spidey Super Stories (guest starring the Electric Company!)?

Hey now. Spidey Super Stories were written for a younger audience, at a time when comic books were just starting to be written for an older one. Something like SSS would be welcome now, as I would never let my children read today's comics.