What was the Worst Mini-Series Ever?

[Red Oak Kid]

OK I stole this question from Lone Ranger who posed it over on the long running Guess the Classic Cover Game.

But I thought it was a great question for everyone on this board.

I had stopped collecting just before the boom in mini series so I don't have a nominee.

LR says it may be "America Vs. The Justice Society".

What are some others we should look out for?

[MWGallaher]

I immediately think of two others that I disliked far more than that JSA mini:

ICEMAN by J. M. deMatteis and Alan Kupperburg. deMatteis at his psychobabbling worst takes Iceman into some kind of fantasy kingdom. The lettering throughout the series is teeny-tiny in order to fit in all the new age gobbledy-gook and introspective thought balloons. Virtually unreadable.

ARION THE IMMORTAL by Paul Kupperburg and Ron Wilson. I consider Paul K. to be one of the worst writers DC's ever employed, and that was before he took a vicious dig at one of my friends and colleagues in the text pages of this wretched miniseries. Peacemaker, Power Girl, and Phantom Stranger all suffered Paul K's scripting in miniseries of the era, but Arion was the worst, recasting the Atlanteans as modern-day New Yorkers living mundane lives. Why this should appeal to people that liked the more conventional fantasy of Arion is a mystery. Why it should appeal to a new audience is even more of one. Wilson's at his most pedestrian (I quite enjoyed some of his Marvel work, notably Super Boxers), and I don't think this disaster did much for his career; I don't recall ever seeing his work published again.

[JeffreyWKramer]

Geez, there are so many from which to choose.

Two contenders would be Phil Foglio's ANGEL AND THE APE miniseries from 1990, and the 2001 Vertigo ANGEL AND THE APE mini, written by Howard Chaykin and drawn by... someone else. Both suck bad, in different ways. The Foglio one may be the worse of the two, because the Vertigo one was bad in all the predictable ways, whereas the Foglio one could possibly have been good - but wasn't.

Another strong contender would be L.A.W. (LIVING ASSAULT WEAPON), a DC travesty featuring all the Charlton action hero characters. With those characters done by Layton and Giordano, you'd think maybe this would be pretty good. If so, you'd be thinking very, very wrong. It's hard to describe just how awful this book was, so I'll try just using adjectives. Boring, illogical, absolutely un-fun, wretched... I hope you get the idea. I love a lot of these characters, so at first I thought maybe that was why I hated this book so much, but I've been told people who never read about the characters before hated it every bit as much. It may say something that even DC's most anal, hardcore continuity geeks disown this thing.

Then there are the two CRISIS minis. I personally believe CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS was one of the worst mistakes in comics history, for various reasons. Really, though, given what it was and its goals, it was pretty well-done. On its own terms, it's not a bad book. In contrast, the more recent INFINITE CRISIS was a poorly-written piece of crap with ugly art, chock-full of all the ugly faux-mature elements of modern superhero comics. If you always wanted to see mainstream DC supeheroes getting skewered, dismembered and decapitated by Kryptonian punches, this just might be the book for you. If that sounds like a good idea, you may also want to consider talking to your doctor about antipsychotic medication.

Then there was ZERO HOUR, which fell between those two crap-fests chronologically, continued the DCU-desecrations which started with the first CRISIS and really made not an ounce of sense.

Over at Marvel, there was the 1998 Marvel Knights PUNISHER mini, which reframed Frank Castle as a mystic character, complete with magic machine gun, dispensing justice for Heaven.

I'm sure I can think of worse ones, and there are probably some real stinkers of which I'm completely unaware, but I assure you, all the ones I list make AMERICA vs. THE JUSTICE SOCIETY seem like Eisner by comparison.

[MDG]

Steve Englehart and Joe Staton are two of my favorite creators, but Millennium has to make the short list.

MDG

[MichikoS]

The 1988 4-issue mini titled THE WEIRD by Jim Starlin, Berni Wrightson and Dan Green. It's hard to believe such A-list talent produced such dreck. Incomprehensible garbage. It won't even sell out of the quarter bins!

Now Starlin has revived THE WEIRD in the new Mystery In Space. Why?

Michi

[Sir Tim Drake]

The original Brigade miniseries from Image. Even Rob Liefeld has admitted that this series is not up to snuff. It's a trite, unoriginal, poorly crafted crapfest, lacking in any kind of interest.

[JeffreyWKramer]

The original Brigade miniseries from Image. Even Rob Liefeld has admitted that this series is not up to snuff. It's a trite, unoriginal, poorly crafted crapfest, lacking in any kind of interest.

As opposed to those many Liefeld books that are deep and meaningful, stunningly original, exquisitely-crafted and completely captivating?

[shyguy]

I know that this is recent stuff and therefore fresh in my mind, but I hope I never live to see the day when I don't think that The OMAC Project and Rann/Thanagar War were pure, unmitigated garbage. Those minis along with the attrocious Infinite Crisis basically stopped me from buying any new mainstream superhero comics from DC other than All-Star Superman.

[JeffreyWKramer]

I know that this is recent stuff and therefore fresh in my mind, but I hope I never live to see the day when I don't think that The OMAC Project and Rann/Thanagar War were pure, unmitigated garbage. Those minis along with the attrocious Infinite Crisis basically stopped me from buying any new mainstream superhero comics from DC other than All-Star Superman.


Both were indeed pretty bad. No question there.

Now imagine this: L.A.W. makes both of them seem pretty good.

[fishtaco]

Origin was pretty bad. ;)

[Cei-U!]

Bad as America Vs. the Justice Society was, it pales to insignificance alongside Thomas and Mandrake's Shazam! The New Beginning.

Cei-U!
I summon the shudder!

[JeffreyWKramer]

Bad as America Vs. the Justice Society was, it pales to insignificance alongside Thomas and Mandrake's Shazam! The New Beginning.

I'd temporarily forgotten that mean-spirited, misguided, ugly poopfest. Yeah, it's definitely way up there among the stinkers.

[swinebread]

Come on, Deathmate has to be the worst. It was the nail in the coffen for the speculator boom it was so bad.

[shyguy]

Oh, I can't believe I actually forgot about my least-favorite miniseries of all time!

Superman, Day of Doom. It was a 10th anniversary event for the Death of Supes. Written and pencilled by Dan Jurgens, inked by Bill Siekiewicz.

Not only is the art more or less a mess (the styles of the two artists just do not mesh at all), the protagonist is incredibly unlikeable (some outdated-at-the-time new-agey stereotype with a goatee and an earring), Superman acts like a complete and utter imbicile, and the story just meanders along for four issues until it leads up to a really weird anti-climax with some generic villain who basically just goes away.

I bought the issues while it was being released and re-read it just this past summer to make sure that it was just as bad as I remembered it as having been. It was. That bad and worse.

[Cherokee Jack]

TATTERED BANNERS from Vertigo.

[Roquefort Raider]

A few more...

1- The four-issue Warlord miniseries that eventually followed the mag's original run.

Pretty ordinary art by Rick Hoberg and a deconstructionist story by Mike Grell revealing that everything we knew about the Warlord's career was essentially of lot of tall tales.

It commited the following sins: (a) it negated what had come before; (b) it brought nothing new to the concept; and worst of all (c) it was, in and of itself, a remarkably boring story.

2- The "Conan and the lord of the spiders" mini, by Roy Thomas and some uninspired young fellow whose name I forgot.

A bad story by Roy (whose work I usually love!), expanding on a few themes from a subpar pastiche story by L. Sprague de Camp, and introducing yet another bad girl character whose clothes are designed for the sole pleasure of pimply teenage boys without a girflriend. The art was pure 90s: no sense of anatomy, huge breasts and loose undies for the girls with plenty of crotch shots, and a Conan who looks as if he's wearing a costume made of steak over his already big muscles.

Yeccccch.

[swinebread]

...and a Conan who looks as if he's wearing a costume made of steak over his already big muscles.

Yeccccch.

That's fuckin' awsome, I'm gonna use that! :D

[Kan-Man]

I'm going to have to go with 1982's Marvel Super Heroes Contest of Champions.

And I'm choosing it for one reason and one reason only - I have been convinced for close to 25 years that there's a mistake in there and I've yet to find anyone who agrees with me (granted, I haven't been asking for 25 years, I took a few years off here and there.)

Anyway, I barely remember the books, but basically there's a contest (hence the title) and there's a running tally throughout the 3 issues to see who wins. At the end, a winner is declared and through some derring-do, the good guys prevail.

However, call me crazy (and I know you will) I'm almost positive that if you add up all the victories, it's actually a tie. I don't even have the issues anymore so I couldn't check again, but I have a strong memory of being 14 or 15 and being sure that someone at Marvel had goofed.

There, I got it off my chest. I feel so much better now.

Bye bye and buy bonds.

[Gingold]

The L.A.W. was really, really bad. The second half of Infinite Crisis was pretty hideous. Millenium was terrible. Genesis was worse. And Bloodlines? Worse than that.

America vs. the JSA was more weird than bad. I never understood why Roy didn't just do a miniseries recapping the history of the JSA, like his later Human Torch and SubMariner miniseries did? The story itself made very little sense, but I did like the art.

[Reptisaurus!]

I'm going to have to go with 1982's Marvel Super Heroes Contest of Champions.

And I'm choosing it for one reason and one reason only - I have been convinced for close to 25 years that there's a mistake in there and I've yet to find anyone who agrees with me (granted, I haven't been asking for 25 years, I took a few years off here and there.)

Anyway, I barely remember the books, but basically there's a contest (hence the title) and there's a running tally throughout the 3 issues to see who wins. At the end, a winner is declared and through some derring-do, the good guys prevail.

However, call me crazy (and I know you will) I'm almost positive that if you add up all the victories, it's actually a tie. I don't even have the issues anymore so I couldn't check again, but I have a strong memory of being 14 or 15 and being sure that someone at Marvel had goofed.

There, I got it off my chest. I feel so much better now.

Bye bye and buy bonds.


Yeah. You're right. Noticed that myself as a kid.

I still really dig the books.

Worst Miniseries: That last Lobo series. Lobo's horrible anyway, but Ambush Bug was in it and all the horrible rubbed off on poor Buggy, too.

[Graham Vingoe]

Brave New World by Messner-Loebs, Guy Davies and Phil Hester. GREAT creative team, and yet the series is a total waste of their time and effort.

[pennywisdom]

*looks into crystal ball*

Yes... I'm seeing a release date of November 2006.... I'm seeing the word "Marvel" on the cover....

It's starting to become clear now.... OH MY GOD! IT'S HORRIBLE!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! (http://www.newsarama.com/marvelnew/Onslaught/OnslaugthReborn.htm)

[Agentum]

Marvel have had a lot of pointless minis in the 80s-90s, like Wolverine and Kitty Pryde and such crap.
I think this one is funny, the head on the sidekick looks like it's been screwed on upside down and facing backwards..:D
http://www.newsarama.com/marvelnew/Onslaught/ONREBOR003_cov.jpg

[Simon Garth]

*looks into crystal ball*

Yes... I'm seeing a release date of November 2006.... I'm seeing the word "Marvel" on the cover....

It's starting to become clear now.... OH MY GOD! IT'S HORRIBLE!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! (http://www.newsarama.com/marvelnew/Onslaught/OnslaugthReborn.htm)

I was "unfortunate" enough to miss the whole Liefeld era, having baled out of comics in about 88/89, but I have to say, looking at those illustrations...



... that is some really terrible art!

I don't know where to begin with the criticism, but the Thor/Hulk picture where Thor's hammer is bigger that he is really stands out

Back to the subject at hand - can't argue too much about Contest of Champions, that was stupendously awful, though Secret Wars 2 and Crisis on Infinite Earths weren't too far behind.

[Lone Ranger]

America vs. the JSA

This one just rubbed me the wrong way. Roy Thomas had done so much good in re-establishing many of DC's Golden Agers in All-Star Squadron. I had high hopes when this one came out. When I read it as a teenager, it didn't really bother me all that much. I knew that it wasn't great, but I was pretty happy just to see certain characters and the cover reprints. I re-read it again a few years ago and almost couldn't finish it. It is sooooo bad. The art is worse than the worse fanzine crap. It just looks so slapped together. The whole story is just a mess and it is simply best forgotten.

Legends

Who gave this crap the greenlight? This one was sooooo lame. I guess people were buying anything Byrne touched back then. The whole overly sentimental 'what is a hero?' theme lacked any subtlety whatsoever. Darkseid was handled so poorly that I assume he leaves this appearance of his resume. This one was in the trash can minutes after I finished it.

Batman: The Cult

Major disappointment. Starlin totally went way over the top here - was he trying to re-invent Batman by breaking him down? I don't know - but this was just hack writing. A waste of Wrightson's talent.


There aren't any any Marvel miniseries here. That doesn't mean I like them all, I simply haven't read most of them. I was a child of the Iceman/Hercules/Hawkeye/Contest of Champios mediocrity of the early 80s and steered clear of most Marvel 'events'.

[Mike Kuypers]

*looks into crystal ball*

Yes... I'm seeing a release date of November 2006.... I'm seeing the word "Marvel" on the cover....

It's starting to become clear now.... OH MY GOD! IT'S HORRIBLE!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! (http://www.newsarama.com/marvelnew/Onslaught/OnslaugthReborn.htm)

Hey, Hulk! Baldo called. He wants his hairstyle back.

[shyguy]

Oh, I forgot another awful one - JLA/Titans: The Technis Imperative. The art was decent Jimenez, but the story was utterly incomprehensible and just plain stupid. The Titans and the JLA fight each other for no reason whatsoever, which is accomplished by a dumb plot twist and a bunch of people acting out-of-character. There are also some really dumb character moments with characters like Nightwing and Tempest. Really, really bad.

[Red Oak Kid]

I don't know where to begin with the criticism, but the Thor/Hulk picture where Thor's hammer is bigger that he is really stands out.

It's called artistic license, SIR.:D

[Sir Tim Drake]

Oh, I forgot another awful one - JLA/Titans: The Technis Imperative. The art was decent Jimenez, but the story was utterly incomprehensible and just plain stupid. The Titans and the JLA fight each other for no reason whatsoever, which is accomplished by a dumb plot twist and a bunch of people acting out-of-character. There are also some really dumb character moments with characters like Nightwing and Tempest. Really, really bad.

There were some things in that series I liked, especially the dream Kory was having in which she and Dick were married with several children. :)

Jimenez's art was very annoying, though. He does an excellent job of copying Perez's style of draftsmanship, but without Gentleman George's mastery of layout and composition.* In JLA/Titans #2, he repeats the exact same layout for about five consecutive two-page spreads, apparently for no better reason than his inability to think of a more appropriate layout. Instead of trying to create a personal, individualized style based on George's style (which is what Don Rosa did with Barks), Phil is just ripping George off.

*Credit where credit's due: I only realized this after someone else, possibly Kurt, pointed it out a long time ago.

[Babylon23]

L.A.W. is definitely a big contender. This series was just rubbish.

[Phil Hester]

Brave New World by Messner-Loebs, Guy Davies and Phil Hester. GREAT creative team, and yet the series is a total waste of their time and effort.

I'm not going to try and defend the series, because it really wasn't what it should have been, but it might be an interesting exercise to figure out just why it went so off track. First- I think Bill wrote it as a 10-12 issue series. The four that came out are sort of the edited highlights of Bill's vision. Second: I should have never been hired to ink/finish anyone, especially someone as refined as Guy. If I have any "gift" at all, it is for storytelling, not rendering. Vertigo should have probably switched our jobs. That said, we all needed the work, so we shut up and did it.

There's one reason it must never be considered the worst mini ever, namely Paul Rivoche's absolutely breathtaking covers. Each one was a masterpiece.

[Sir Tim Drake]

I'm not going to try and defend the series, because it really wasn't what it should have been, but it might be an interesting exercise to figure out just why it went so off track. First- I think Bill wrote it as a 10-12 issue series. The four that came out are sort of the edited highlights of Bill's vision. Second: I should have never been hired to ink/finish anyone, especially someone as refined as Guy. If I have any "gift" at all, it is for storytelling, not rendering. Vertigo should have probably switched our jobs. That said, we all needed the work, so we shut up and did it.

There's one reason it must never be considered the worst mini ever, namely Paul Rivoche's absolutely breathtaking covers. Each one was a masterpiece.

Welcome to the forum, Phil, and thanks for the analysis.

[Aaron King]

Total aside: Hey Phil, are you going to make it up to the Minneapolis Fallcon this year? I missed you last year.

[Graham Vingoe]

The reply from Phil Hester regarding Brave New World does put the title into perspective now that I find that it was severely reduced from a 12 issue series to just 4. The fact that it was released as part of a hideously contrived "countdown to the Millennium" event by Vertigo leads me to think that it was planned as a different entity and shoehorned into place at the last minute. Thanks for replying Phil, and yes I agree the covers were excellent.

[rick]

Let's not forget (as if we could), Howard Chaykin's absolutly horrible Twilight.

As good as Howie can be as a writer, he manages to leave all his talent at home. All I can really say is that a sexually perverted, immortal, Tommy Tomorrow was just a bit too much even for me.

It was total crap.

[Graham Vingoe]

I actually like Twilight a lot- it's the first time J L Garcia Lopez has been really given the opportunity to shine and show what he can do when not working to a deadline(that I'm aware of). Granted, the subject matter is a bit extreme for some tastes, but I've read and seen a lot worse than this.
I hope my wife isnt paying attention!

[swinebread]

Let's not forget (as if we could), Howard Chaykin's absolutly horrible Twilight.

As good as Howie can be as a writer, he manages to leave all his talent at home. All I can really say is that a sexually perverted, immortal, Tommy Tomorrow was just a bit too much even for me.

It was total crap.

Yeah they got it in the best mini-series thread
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=145214&page=2

[Slam_Bradley]

As much as I felt at the time (and still feel) that Crisis on Infinite Earths was unnecessary at least it had some good moments. Secret Wars was simply horrible. Nothing happened for extremely contrived reasons and none of the "shake-ups" amounted to anything. I got fed up and stopped about half-way through...and this was when I was still in a completist period.

[rick]

Yeah they got it in the best mini-series thread
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=145214&page=2


This doesn't change a thing.

The series was still complete crap.

[swinebread]

This doesn't change a thing.

The series was still complete crap.

I'm not suggesting it does, it was just fun to point out. I've never read it myself.

[rick]

I'm not suggesting it does, it was just fun to point out. I've never read it myself.

No denying that the art in it is very good.

But the book itself was one of those late 80's reinterpetation of classic characters in the wake of Dark Knight, and so allthe classic DC Space characters, with the exception of Adam Strange all get angsty, horny, immoral and in the case of Tommy Tomorrow decidedly perverse.

I guess Howie just hated characters in shorts or something, I don't know.

But the writing was just awful. Especially when you consider that Chaykin is capable of being very good if he wants to be.

Just not here.

[Slam_Bradley]

This doesn't change a thing.

The series was still complete crap.


It wasn't complete crap. You may not have liked Chaykin's take on the characters (and I might well agree with you). But J.L. Garcia-Lopez's artwork was a joy to behold.

[TheHistorian]

However, call me crazy (and I know you will) I'm almost positive that if you add up all the victories, it's actually a tie.

Yeah, or it was the other way around and it was a tie, but they declared a winner. Don't recall the specifics, but you're definitely write that there was a mistake.


As for the original question, are there minis that have been canceled and thus not completed? I would think those would have to be significant nominees in this category.

[Kan-Man]

Yeah, or it was the other way around and it was a tie, but they declared a winner.

That's what happened, you just stated it clearer than I did.

[Phil Hester]

Total aside: Hey Phil, are you going to make it up to the Minneapolis Fallcon this year? I missed you last year.

Yessir. Looking forward to seeing you.

[TheTen-EyedMan]

I'm suprised that nobody has mentioned Genesis. That mini-series actively tried to murder me. I hated it so much I had to quit with issue 3.

[Sir Tim Drake]

Usually I love Alan Davis's work, but his Killraven miniseries was so dull that I gave up on it after four out of six issues. It just didn't offer anything to hold my interest. It had neither the epic drama of JLA: The Nail, nor the humor of Excalibur, and all the characters were interchangeable.

I'm not saying it's the worst miniseries of all time-- how could it have been, when it featured Alan Davis artwork? I just thought I'd mention it.

[rick]

Usually I love Alan Davis's work, but his Killraven miniseries was so dull that I gave up on it after four out of six issues. It just didn't offer anything to hold my interest. It had neither the epic drama of JLA: The Nail, nor the humor of Excalibur, and all the characters were interchangeable.

I'm not saying it's the worst miniseries of all time-- how could it have been, when it featured Alan Davis artwork? I just thought I'd mention it.


Ick.

You are so right about this one. I think I must have blocked it out of my mind it was so awful.

It completly gave a pass on the basic distopia that made the series fun in the first place. And honestly it looked like the only issue of the entire original series that Davis looked at was the Neal Adams issue. And as much as I like Adams, he only did the one.

I like these two normally, but they really struck out on this one.

[swinebread]

Ick.

You are so right about this one. I think I must have blocked it out of my mind it was so awful.

It completly gave a pass on the basic distopia that made the series fun in the first place. And honestly it looked like the only issue of the entire original series that Davis looked at was the Neal Adams issue. And as much as I like Adams, he only did the one.

I like these two normally, but they really struck out on this one.

The Killraven mini made me sad, I really liked the original. :(

[JeffreyWKramer]

Yeah, I gave up on Davis' KILLRAVEN mini after the second issue. It had none of the fun or energy of the original stories. That was one that sounded great in theory, but really sucked in execution.

[Shellhead]

As much as I felt at the time (and still feel) that Crisis on Infinite Earths was unnecessary at least it had some good moments. Secret Wars was simply horrible. Nothing happened for extremely contrived reasons and none of the "shake-ups" amounted to anything. I got fed up and stopped about half-way through...and this was when I was still in a completist period.

I wanted to like Secret Wars, but it was very disappointing. Mike Zeck should have stuck to Master of Kung Fu, where his pencils were adequate and nicely inked. And the story was a big waste of time, thanks to heavy-handed editorial mandates. It was as though Jim Shooter was simply using Secret Wars as a delivery system for a set of arbitrary changes that would shake up the Marvel Universe and stimulate sales. As a loyal Marvel fan at that time, I didn't see anything wrong with the Marvel Universe that required so many changes.

The massive disparity in quality between Secret Wars and Crisis on Infinite Earths caused me to drop numerous Marvel titles and start buying more DC comics. Huge disappointing drops in quality in the Avengers, Daredevil, Iron Man, and the X-Men pushed me away more, and then Secret Wars II sealed the deal. It wasn't until 2001 that I resumed buying more than one Marvel comic a month.

[Jolly Mon]

Not sure if it's the worst ever, because I think Secret Wars II has to be way up there, but the last Superman/Batman Generations by John Byrne was just a mess trying to figure out. It went back and forth in time so often that it was almost impossible to keep any sort of storyline sequence straight. It seemed a couple times like Byrne got lost too.

[founder81]

As for the original question, are there minis that have been canceled and thus not completed? I would think those would have to be significant nominees in this category.


Sonic Disruptors was intended to be 12 issues. It made it to 7.

[rick]

Sonic Disruptors was intended to be 12 issues. It made it to 7.


Keep in mind though, that Sonic Disruptors wasn't cancelled because of low sales. It was ordered cancelled by DC's parent company of the time Warner Communications because of the books attitudes toward drug use and sex.

Which I grant you might seem like a quint reason to order a books cancellation these days, but actually once mattered back then.

The comic itself rocked.

[founder81]

Keep in mind though, that Sonic Disruptors wasn't cancelled because of low sales. It was ordered cancelled by DC's parent company of the time Warner Communications because of the books attitudes toward drug use and sex.

Which I grant you might seem like a quint reason to order a books cancellation these days, but actually once mattered back then.

The comic itself rocked.

I never knew that. I always thought it was low sales. It took me many years to believe that ish #7 was the last one. Overstreet only lists 7, Mile High only lists 7, GCD only lists 7. too bad. I would like to see the ending.

[swinebread]

Fallen Angels was really boring. I remember one day about year after it came out thinking “hey I forgot to pick up the rest of this series.” It was so uninteresting I forget about it. I had High hopes for moon boy.
http://64.235.244.110/Fallen_Angels_No8_Marvel.jpg

[bolt98]

The recent Tomb of Dracula mini series put out by Marvel a year or so ago. Written by Bruce Jones. Terrible. It seems it was scheduled for 6 issues or so but was condensed to 4 when sales were so horrible.

And that Sable/Fortune mini series......awful.

[MDG]

Keep in mind though, that Sonic Disruptors wasn't cancelled because of low sales. It was ordered cancelled by DC's parent company of the time Warner Communications because of the books attitudes toward drug use and sex.
Maybe they used low sales as a cover story. I remember someone at DC commenting that it would've been cheaper to fly the writer around to tell the end of the story to the few people reading it than to actually print the books.

MDG

[DarthAstuart]

I'm a little surprised no one mentioned this bad boy already...maybe there aren't enough folks who came to comics in the post-Burton Batman era of the late eighties/early nineties, like I did?

http://www.comics.org/graphics/covers/4013/400/4013_4_001.jpg

it's been years and years since I read it, but just the cover makes me want to giggle like an idiot. In a good/bad way. If that makes any sense.

[Shellhead]

Brute Force does look supremely awful. I wasn't buying comics for most of the 90's, so I've never seen that cover before.

[Sir Tim Drake]

The poster Justin Davis used to use the dolphin from that cover as his avatar.

[Jeremy A. Patterson]

Fallen Angels was really boring. I remember one day about year after it came out thinking “hey I forgot to pick up the rest of this series.” It was so uninteresting I forget about it. I had High hopes for moon boy.
http://64.235.244.110/Fallen_Angels_No8_Marvel.jpg


That series was one of the most notable examples of how bad a comic book can be: Cheesy characters, Wierd ideas, & Wacky hairstyles!


J.A.P.