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Thought I’d kick this one off, as I was soooooo unimpressed with a comic I bought recently.
Codename : Knockout #14, I believe it was, and it was shockingly poor. Let me count the ways :
1. A J. Scott Campbell cover featuring a woman who appears to have suffered some terrible injury, such is her bodily distortion.
2. Barely any introduction of the characters for the new reader (oh, that would be me)
3. Artwork which was just this side of adequate, but unclear panel layouts and characters who don’t really look the same from one panel to the next. Odd because I seem to recall the team being okay elsewhere.
4. Fight scenes where characters are spouting great mouthfuls of dialogue
5. The usual ‘story set in Britain’ stuff (cab drivers whose accents are about as consistent as Daphne’s family’s in Frasier, signs in kilometres, that kind of thing)
6. A story so poor, I simply can’t remember what it was.
7. First part of a two-parter, or maybe more, and with no kind of hook to make me come back next time. All right then, you talked me out of it. I won’t bother (since no-one involved in the book seems to have bothered)
Still, at least I was on the toilet when I read it. But that was my doing, nothing to do with the people who produced the comic.
There is, of course, a chance that this was a one-off, a weak issue. But I won’t be shelling out money to find out. It went straight into the bin after that one read. I have better things to waste my eyemuscleenergy on.
Which brings me to my question, the opener of this topic : what’s the worst comic you’ve read in recent times ? What was so bad about it ? I’m thinking about head-shakingly appalling bits of tat here, not ones which are almost compelling in their badness. Go on, share. You know you want to.
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