"they did what?" comic book runs

[Radio Cicero Rockettes]

^ I really liked parts of that, too, such as when Superman threatened the elementals with the destruction of the Earth if they killed humanity. It was one of the most impressive Superman moments I'd seen in a long time. Really, aside from Eqqus, that story was beautiful.

 

[Captain Craig]

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

Yeah, I bought this despite my hesitations and quickly realized why I was hesitant. Believe in your gut, when it says "this is hurl worthy" believe it.

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

It is but its worth repeating over and over and over. I've read them all and its yet to get better.

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

This one I actually didn't mind as it was stated from the start it would be temporary. I viewed it as just another deep undercover story. Did it have a few cheese moments sure but overall I didn't mind this story.

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

Top 5 worst story arc in Spidey history. Makes "The Big Wheel" villian look good.

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

Clone Saga was alright and is only viewed as the mess it is because of the EiC change as CS was going to wrap. New EiC came in and wanted a reversal so CS had to be drawn out to get us back to status quo.
I had no issue with Norman being back.

 

[Mr Light]

Preacher's "Salvation" run I think it was called. The first 2/3 or half of the series is my all time fav comic, but this was just awful. We went from an apocalyptic battle between the Saint and the Grail and US military ending with a nuclear explosion... then we went to an amnesiac one eyed Jesse being a sheriff in a small town fighting neo-nazis. Wow. Not to mention a drugged up Tulip screwing Cassidy. Yikes.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Louise Simonson's run on New Mutants. These kids are on track to being the next X-Men and suddenly they're whiny, addle brained, hook up with a bird-man and get Doug killed pointlessly. Doug, who suddenly has a crush on Rahne, despite a year or more establishing Doug's psychic bond and love for Psylocke who reciprocated his feelings.

 

[Ben Sisko3]

The Ultimates Volume 3
Infinite Crisis

 

[Gojirob]

It was indicated in a later internal flashback by Psylocke that Doug wasn't quite as ready for an adult relationship as he seemed. However, I agree about the pointlessness of his death.

Bad aging on certain characters. Even using Marvel time, Julie Power should not be in college, and Jack Russell's sister Lisa should not be the mother of an 18-year old young woman. They go on and on about how certain things make Spidey too old. Well, I'd say a super-kid he met as a pre-teen *after* his marriage now attending college ages him and the FF. So if Julie's in college, say about 20, why is Franklin, only one year younger than her sister who was perhaps five years her junior at most, still only 7?

And I will add Spidey's OMD/BND not merely for the stories themselves, but for the hell-bent nature of the Quesadars 'WE ARRRRRE GOING TO DO THIS'. You have a feeling the current staff served on Red Squad?

 

[flandry84]

The "brokeback" re-imagining of The Rawhide kid.
No problem with the concept of a gay hero,but the kid had been a long-ago childhood favourite of mine.The whole thing reduced the whole western genre to a kind of (bad)joke.

 

[Kryton]

Sending western hero/anti-hero Jonah Hex into the future.

Though frankly, it worked nicely and they tied it up well and even the Justice League cartoon series shoehorned it into a fun time-travel story.

 

[Rudolph-Redshirt Reindeer]

Emerald Twilight and Zero Hour.

 

[Tomato]

Preacher's "Salvation" run I think it was called. The first 2/3 or half of the series is my all time fav comic, but this was just awful. We went from an apocalyptic battle between the Saint and the Grail and US military ending with a nuclear explosion... then we went to an amnesiac one eyed Jesse being a sheriff in a small town fighting neo-nazis. Wow. Not to mention a drugged up Tulip screwing Cassidy. Yikes.

I don't know I liked it.

 

[Timby]

Anything Jeph Loeb has ever done.

 

[TheBrew]

Anything Jeph Loeb has ever done.

Including "The Long Halloween?" His new stuff isn't very good, but I've liked his work with Tim Sale.

 

[Timby]

Anything Jeph Loeb has ever done.

Including "The Long Halloween?" His new stuff isn't very good, but I've liked his work with Tim Sale.

Loeb's been writing the same story for a long time, now -- an extended and gratuitous sequence of cameos from a character's entire rogues' gallery nonsensically dressed up as a murder mystery. The Long Halloween would be utter ass without Sale's art, as opposed to the decent art and utter ass of a story that it is now.

And now Marvel's letting him take a hatchet to the Ultimate Universe.

LOEB