What is the worst story you've read?

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I'm talking about the worst thing any company has published, Marvel, DC, Image, whoever. I've had issue with Superman: At Earths End and Act of God from DC and with The Clone Saga and One more day/Brand New day from Marvel.

What stories, TPBs, what ifs?, elseworlds, whatever, do you consider the worst?
 
Hmm...as of single issues, since i became a monthly reader, Joker's Daughter and Constantine #3,4,5. They don't even know what to do with his solo book. Damian, Son of Batman #1 was also pretty damn terrible i don't even want to read the second issue.

I almost cried for my money with Batman Odyssey. Idiot me got the hardcover thinking it would be awesome, little i knew. The art is terrific but the story even to me who i am into surrialists it was just...WOW !! For the first 4 issues i was kinda following after the 4th issue i was just looking at the pictures.
Another bad one was Gotham by Midnight. Awesome cover, awesome title with an almost classic premise but the book was very bad.
 
The Dark Knight Strikes Again
All-Star Batman & Robin

Pretty much anything done by Frank Miller after the 90's
The Ultimates
 
Dark Knight Strikes Again
Batman: Fortunate Son
Superman: Our Worlds At War
 
The worst story, anything in the New 52 Superman, exclude unchained. Oh and I disagree Steamteck, that story is phenominal.
 
Like I said before I don't think there is any.
 
-All Star Batman and Robin
-The Dark Knight Strikes Again
-The Killing Joke
-Tony Daniels' first six issues with Det. Comics.
 
Uhh probably a Batman arc from a few years ago called Grotesk
 
-All Star Batman and Robin
-The Dark Knight Strikes Again
-The Killing Joke
-Tony Daniels' first six issues with Det. Comics.

I can see the others but The Killing Joke? I rather liked it. I know that the characters were off a bit but I thought it summarized the relationship between the two fairly well.
 
All Star Batman/Robin
Dark Knight Strikes Again
Spiderman: One More day
Spiderman: sins past
 
I can't remember the specific name, but it was from the O'Neil/Adams run of Green Lantern-Green Arrow. Jordan ended up in some type of a bubble city where he was constantly sprayed by perfume. It ended with Green Arrow whining (as he often does) that there was too much plastic (and fake things, I guess) in the world. My mind felt violated by lack of imagination in this story.
 
Anything by Tony Daniel.

Most things from New 52, but especially Superman and Wonder Woman - not their separate ones since I love Wonder Woman and I know little of superman's current run, but their shared title. The romance always goes the same - Wonder Woman's agency is compromised and Superman takes the main heroic spotlight, and the relationship as a general concept completely misses the point of the characters - Superman's innate humanity that sees him strive to remain tied to the human world so he can live among them and understand what it is to be weak so that he can be strong for them, and Wonder Woman's mission to man's world, and her concern with diplomatically making it a better place for everyone, particularly ordinary people who are marginalised by society. To have the two most powerful characters gallivanting off together strikes a blow to that.

Anytime someone thinks they are doing a good thing by Wonder Woman by destroying Themiscira or making it disappear or making them all evil. Seriously, not only are these bad ideas, but Wonder Woman doesn't have a very well known rogues and supporting cast precisely because every second writer thinks they are being geniuses by throwing out everything and everyone the previous writer spent time building up.



Worst of all however, since I think worst should be measured by impact as well as general quality, was War Games/Crimes. It had everything - Batman being a jerk that the entire previous crossover event - Bruce Wayne Murderer - had been orchestrated to do away with, terrible writing, an obsession with grim darkness and ludicrous bodycounts and death and so on. but worst of all was the sheer sexism bordering on misogyny in the event - Stephanie Brown as Spoiler was introduced as the first canon female Robin with the editorial plan to specifically kill her. Her death came about from Batman firing her as Robin, when he had treated her as less than mud, and her disobeying his orders to do the better thing was the final straw, when just about every other Robin (all male) were given approval by Batman when they broke an order to help (hell, it's how Tim Drake got the job). She was then tortured graphically on page in a skeevy sexualised way. And then Leslie Thompkins, the kindest person in Gotham renowned for her strict adherence to the hippocratic oath, lets Stephanie die in order to teach Batman a lesson. Then Steph didn't get a memorial. Oracle is made to look like a fool who needs Batman to tell her what to do, even when she had long been established as now a hero in her own right who was out of Batman's shadow and was his equal. Batman is horrible to his allies and the police force, getting swathes of the latter killed. When his allies finally call him out on his horribleness, they call him out on the wrong thing! It decided to bring back the urban legend aspect of Batman - a character who had now been operating for ten plus years, who had been caught numerous times on camera, who was one of the seven members of the major justice league, who had travelled the world, fought Joker and all the rest, worked with Jim Gordon - and they brought it back, just so it could be debunked when someone caught him on camera. It was not only a bad story, it was a truly offensive one that revealed how truly disgusting many of the attitudes of the DC editorial were/are.
 
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This is hard to pick only a few, but I'll keep it to just a few

Countdown/Countdown to Final Crisis
Geoff John's Shazam
The Dark Knight Strikes Again
All Star Batman & Robin
Spider-Man: One More Day
Infinity (all of the main series and avengers tie ins, not counting the decent Infinity: The Hunt or the excellent Wolverine & The X-Men tie in issue)
 
Batman: Hush Returns

I wish I didn't buy it back then. Ugh... I think I'll donate it to my nearest library.
 
Red hood and the Outlaws, and that it saying a lot from me because I am a huge Jason Todd fan as in naming my next child Jason Todd type fan. It just seems that between Tyrion and Lobdell that they don't know what to do with Jason or how to fit him in in a team. Please give him back to Winnick he is the only one who knows Jason Todd.
 

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