"they did what?" comic book runs

[JoeZhang]

The mirror universe version of the "classic runs" thread - runs where you thought "what the hell?"


(don't worry if you cannot remember the author)

The Punisher - Ostrander - A fantastic writer but the punisher becomes a mob boss? em.... no.

The Punisher - ??????? - The punisher dies and becomes an angel who can summon magic weapons out of thin air...

 

[Hermiod]

Anything Chuck Austen ever wrote with "X-Men" in the title.

 

[Christopher]

I figure "One More Day" is too obvious a target...

 

[JoeZhang]

I figure "One More Day" is too obvious a target...

I think it was a great idea for (the Satanic) Spider-man to do a deal with a Satan like being .

It's so true to the character.

 

[Jack Bauer]

How about the time they turned the Punisher into an African-American for awhile? That was bizarre.

 

[CheapTrick]

How about the Sins of the Past storyline? Norman Osborn got Gwen Stacy knocked up...blech. JMS's weakest run on Spidey BY FAR.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Spider-Man's Clone Saga along with the return of Norman Osborn.

 

[captcalhoun]

i'm going with One More Day/Brand New Day, whatever the fuck it's called and i haven't even read it, i just read the wiki page to see what the fuss was about.

je-sus. if they ever do Ultimate One New Day, I will get on a plane and kill which ever dumbass made them do it. Even if i have to recoalesce from my ashes to do it.

 

[shivkala]

Superman Red/Superman Blue (aka the entire "Electric Blue Superman") storyline. This was back in the 90's, when the companies believed that changing a character (who the character is, their powers, etc.) was the way to improve sagging sales. They just didn't realize that it was the crap stories that drove away readers, and that the changes only had temporary sales bumps, until people realized the stories were just plain crap.

"For Tomorrow," where they gave the flagship Superman title to Brian Azzarello, who claims to hate super-heroes. It started out okay, but at the end, it was just a pile of crap.

 

[Professor Zoom]

Anything Chuck Austen ever wrote with "X-Men" in the title.

I think you can extend that to anything that has "written by Chuck Austen" on the book.

A truly awful writer.

 

[Kryton]

The whole "Electrical Superman" thing after he'd been killed. It never clicked, never made sense and I "GOT" the whole Red & Blue Superman reference, but in that incarnation it never worked for me. I still think of it as "imaginary" or "alt-U" as they say these days.

 

[CaptainCanada]

Why is this in General TV and Media?

Pretty much any DC superhero title written in the 50s and 60s is chock full of this kind of stuff.

The back-to-back Heinberg and Picoult arcs on Wonder Woman: just a trainwreck, from the moronic return of "Diana Prince" and the full realization of the Johnsian vision of Diana, to "Amazons Attack".

Jeph Loeb's recent "Evolution" story arc on Wolverine; makes a ludicrous hash of Logan's history.

 

[Yassim]

Walt Simonson's Thor was great... but who remembers the arc where Thor was turned into a frog, fighting with other frogs against the rats in the NYC sewers?

Secret Wars 2 + 857 cross-overs. Need I say more?

DK2 - painfully painful.

I know there are more...

 

[Cicero]

Anything Chuck Austen ever wrote with "X-Men" in the title.

I liked his stories about Sammy Pare and the Juggernaut, and the pre-Lorna Havok and Nurse Annie stories.

 

[Cicero]

The whole "Electrical Superman" thing after he'd been killed. It never clicked, never made sense and I "GOT" the whole Red & Blue Superman reference, but in that incarnation it never worked for me. I still think of it as "imaginary" or "alt-U" as they say these days.

I liked this one, too. It never felt like it was supposed to be permanent, only a fun story for awhile, like No Man's Land in the Batman titles.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Using Type-face as a villain against Spidey.

 

[CaptainCanada]

Walt Simonson's Thor was great... but who remembers the arc where Thor was turned into a frog, fighting with other frogs against the rats in the NYC sewers?

That was an hilarious arc.

 

[Mr Light]

I'll second Superman For Tomorrow; when I found out Jim Lee was doing Superman I got terribly excited when I found them in the dollar bin, but the story was just completely bizzare, out of character, non-linear, etc, etc.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Superman Red/Superman Blue (aka the entire "Electric Blue Superman") storyline.

There was a red one? I didn't know that. I only remember the blue one.

I do remember an 'imaginary' Superman story from the 60's where he uses a machine (powered by 4 different varieties of Kryptonite) to increase his intelligence, but it splits him into two identical copies except for color (one has a blue costume, the other red). Each of them marries one of "their" old girlfriends - one for Lois, the other for Lana - and one couple moves to a recreated Krypton.

 

[sidious618]

I'll second Superman For Tomorrow; when I found out Jim Lee was doing Superman I got terribly excited when I found them in the dollar bin, but the story was just completely bizzare, out of character, non-linear, etc, etc.

Yeah, that was a bad arc. I think I gave it up after the second issue.