Whats the worst story arc you've ever read?

[Anubis]

Yeah he did. Held the Moon together and wrestled a damn bull angel.

 

[BrianWilly]

Yes, it helps that the only version of Bluperman that I can recall is the one that appeared in JLA.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The fact that Clark questioned his own worth in the face of his somewhat diminished powers was great, too. It's such a perfectly Clark thing to do. Dude can still wrestle a goddamned angel (no pun intended) to a standstill, yet he's worrying about whether he's really relevant or worth having around.

 

[herakles]

World War Hulk!

 

[Speedball]

The Other is pretty bad, but Ultimatum tops my list, for any superhero series from all publishers. I bought it just to see how bad it could get, and it went from crap to **** when that damn tidal wave hit NY.It was like Jeph Loeb wrote it as one huge cluster**** of a story where crazy **** happens just because he can make it happen.

 

[Dark Victory]

Here a few I hate...

Ultimatum
Batman: Hush Returns
Batman: The Joker's Last Laugh
Batman: War Crimes
Avengers: Disassembled
Batman: Under the Hood
Matt Fraction's whole run on Punisher: War Journal

 

[sdc10]

Ultimates 3, Thanks for raping Hawkeye you assh****

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Literally?

... Look, it's Loeb; you gotta ask, just to be sure.

 

[JewishHobbit]

I think revealing that there's a sub race of demonic mutants and another sub race of angelic mutants and they've been holy warring for centuries because their ideologies just happened to match how their mutations look is kind of dumb and overly convolutes the X-Men mythos.

Now THIS is a legitimate complaint about the Draco (and Austen's run in general really). If you don't like the Angel/Demon deal, that's understandable. It's the Nightcrawler's the son of a Devil thing that annoys me because it isn't accurate.

Personally, I found the Angel/Demon war thing interesting and wanted to see it mold with the Supernatural war that was brewing with what's his names stuff (wrote 4, Nightcrawler, etc.). It was odd, but it had me interested.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Robert Aguirre-Sacasa. I don't think that s***'ll ever come to pass at this point. Dude's been talking about it since like 2004.

 

[sdc10]

Literally?

... Look, it's Loeb; you gotta ask, just to be sure.

no not literally, but it might as well have been it probably would have been better than what they did to his character

 

[CombatRock319]

For me it was ultimatum..never dislked a story as much ever...killed guys for no reason..and was kinda sick..but not in a cool marvel zombies kinda way..just really bad.

i honestly read ultimatum 5 at least ten times and i couldn't tell if i liked it or not. i mean if you dig gore and violence, i'm sure there's a punisher series that might satisfy your sick pleasures. but cyclops doesn't blow people's heads off, quicksilver can't push a bullet through someone's brain. thats bull*****.

and you can't kill wolverine. YOU. CANT. KILL. WOLVERINE.



lies Jeph Loeb fed me...

 

[CombatRock319]

Not exactly an arc per se, but how did this thread go two pages without anyone mentioning Superman Red/Superman Blue?

cause this is a marvel thread...

 

[JewishHobbit]

Robert Aguirre-Sacasa. I don't think that s***'ll ever come to pass at this point. Dude's been talking about it since like 2004.

Yeah, I'm not expecting it either. I wouldn't care really if not for Mephisto telling Nightcrawler to stay out of it (or something like that). For some reason that story got me real curious.

 

[Yodaman]

cause this is a marvel thread...

Amazons Attack was mentioned several times before I posted.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, I'm not expecting it either. I wouldn't care really if not for Mephisto telling Nightcrawler to stay out of it (or something like that). For some reason that story got me real curious.

I'd love to see it. The Avengers got a resurrection of sorts with all of the big events, the cosmic stuff got a resurrection with Annihilation, the X-Men got a resurrection with Messiah Complex; it seems a shame that the mystical side of the Marvel universe can't get something similar. I mean, we've got Thor, Hercules, a new Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider, and a few other magic characters cropping up from time to time, but they're never treated as being under the same umbrella the way the cosmic stuff is, even though they share a lot of common history and story elements.

Who knows, though. Maybe that's what the Siege of Asgard we've been hearing rumors about might be.

 

[Kitsune]

The Angel and the Ape, some hideous reprint of an old Marvel mag...premise too weird to even state. A blonde chick and some ape faced dude with hairy arms that dragged to the floor.

Um Angel and the Ape is a DC mag. The Ape was really an ape, the joke was that no one ever acted like he was an ape.

 

[Tron Bonne]

It's DC? Grant Morrison is going to resurrect it, and people are going to think it's the best thing ever. You'll see

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It's probably already been reinvented a couple times. DC likes re-using names a lot.

 

[Speedball]

It's DC? Grant Morrison is going to resurrect it, and people are going to think it's the best thing ever. You'll see

I used to like Morrison... but after Final Crisis' holier-than-thou attitude and the way Batman RIP just dragged and Batman didn't even die in his own book, at least Cap. America got that, I'm over him.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

you know what toss "Secret Invasion" in there for me too.

they took a totally cool ass premise and what we get Freakin "Jarvis the Avenger's butler's as a big revel. Call out the national guard that guy has secret file on the mops and dustpans.for a freaking well thought out, years in the works planning.Those skrulls are some of the Dumbest mother*&^%$ ever. Oh! we didn't plan on earthpeople having bullets!!! Dont they know that Americans love guns so much that we will shoot our ownsleves in the leg( see Plaxico Burress hehe), and it all culminated in Thor calling them to a fight in a Park with stupid Brillo head Osbourne Shooting girl in the head.It could have been something really cool and instead it was nothing but Booty and not the good Ali Landry booty but the bad "plan 9 from outer space booty". Those stupid skrulls deserved to have their planet destroyed.Boo!

 

[The Mighty Thor]

Yeah, it was kinda annoying that the Skrulls spent all that time plotting and planning and managed to do little other than kill the Wasp.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

And overcome Stark Tech and kind of make the Initiative implode. But it did seem like a bust if, after all that time plotting and scheming, they still couldn't manage to conquer one little backwater mudball. Earth is the cosmic equivalent of the short bus compared to the rest of the universe.

 

[BrianWilly]

The main SI issues were pretty stupid and boring and bsadly anticlimactic, but at the least -- unlike other events like Civil War or House of M or WWH -- I don't think it was ever deliberately harmful to any characters.

Well, other than Janet if you know what I mean.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The Wonder Man/Skrull-Beast fight in one of the tie-ins made me sad because it's the funniest Beast has been in like 10 years... and it wasn't even Beast.