Comics Everybody Hates

[dan bailey]

no one person could get through the job without becoming sexually confused.

The early '70s now starts to make a little more sense ...

[T GUy]

I have to vote against including Don Heck - I think his artwork on the early Avengers is usually fine and often much better than that, even though I gather he wasn't ever keen on the whole superhero genre.

Yeah, if it's comics everyone hates, Don Heck gets a pass as there are plenty of people who like his work, including my good self and most of those in the circles in which I move.

If no-one's beaten me to it, please pull Kanigher's Wonder Woman run out of the fires of Hell. If I ever get around to reading 'The Dingbats of Danger Street' I may get back to you on that as well.

I'd go so far as to say that you'll get consensus on absolutely nothing. I'd bet you a Kit-Kat that there is someone, somewhere, who likes Charlton's romance comics and Submarine Attack.

[icctrombone]

I have to vote against including Don Heck - I think his artwork on the early Avengers is usually fine and often much better than that, even though I gather he wasn't ever keen on the whole superhero genre.

Don't know the others you mention.

I second the love for Don Heck. He was my definitive Avengers artist in my early days ( kooky Quartet). I rate him even with John Buscema, Jack Kirby and Neal Adams for Artistic Greatness concerning the Assemblers.

[Roquefort Raider]

How about that issue where Spawn meets Cerebus and all the Marvel and DC characters tel the how great they are because they're creators didn't sell out?

Hey, i liked it! Especially the depressed Superman sitting in his jail cell, muttering "...doomsday..." I didn't see the book as a condemnation of creators who do work for hire, but a bemoaning of the sad fate that expects characters owned not by their creators, but by big corporations.

[berk]

Yeah, if it's comics everyone hates, Don Heck gets a pass as there are plenty of people who like his work, including my good self and most of those in the circles in which I move.

If no-one's beaten me to it, please pull Kanigher's Wonder Woman run out of the fires of Hell. If I ever get around to reading 'The Dingbats of Danger Street' I may get back to you on that as well.

I'd go so far as to say that you'll get consensus on absolutely nothing. I'd bet you a Kit-Kat that there is someone, somewhere, who likes Charlton's romance comics and Submarine Attack.

Which is why this thread pretty quickly became indistinguishable from the "Comics You Hate" one.

I second the love for Don Heck. He was my definitive Avengers artist in my early days ( kooky Quartet). I rate him even with John Buscema, Jack Kirby and Neal Adams for Artistic Greatness concerning the Assemblers.

My appreciation has grown as I've gotten older and I find I like it more the more I see of it. One thing that helped was seeing some of Heck's illustration work outside the superhero genre - exactly what or where I can't recall right now - being very imprssed with it, and then being able to spot some of the same qualities in his Avengers.

[dan bailey]

My appreciation has grown as I've gotten older and I find I like it more the more I see of it. One thing that helped was seeing some of Heck's illustration work outside the superhero genre - exactly what or where I can't recall right now - being very imprssed with it, and then being able to spot some of the same qualities in his Avengers.

For me, it was his work as seen in western & romance reprints.

[dan bailey]

I'd bet you a Kit-Kat that there is someone, somewhere, who likes Charlton's romance comics

Not that long ago someone here posted about coming into possession of (IIRC) a water-damaged pile of such & sitting down & reading a few, at which point he found out that they were pretty fun.

[Schnitzy Pretzelpants]

I'd bet you a Kit-Kat that there is someone, somewhere, who likes Charlton's romance comics and Submarine Attack.

Whoo!

Those stakes are running a bit to high for me and my wallet!

More of a Double-Bubble or Gummy Worm level wager myself.

[Scott Harris]

Not that long ago someone here posted about coming into possession of (IIRC) a water-damaged pile of such & sitting down & reading a few, at which point he found out that they were pretty fun.

That would be me. I prefer DC and Marvel romance -- in that order -- but the Charlton ones can be just unhinged enough to be entertaining. They are certainly less formulaic than the romance titles from the Big Two.

[The Black Guardian]

Back in the 90s, there was a Doom comic. No, not Dr. Doom. Doom the video game.

http://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/

Among other horrible lines:
"You are huge. That means you have huge guts."
"Rip and tear!!"
"Now I'm radioactive. That can't be good."

[Alan2099]

Back in the 90s, there was a Doom comic.

and it was one of the greatest comics ever!

[Aaron King]

and it was one of the greatest comics ever!

It's true. Pure poetry. Like beatniks off to war.