History Horrible / ComicBooks

* The miniseries '''''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack''''' was thrown together last-minute to cover delays in ''Franchise/WonderWoman'', and did nothing more than derail the Amazons into {{Straw Feminist}}s and/or complete morons for the sake of making the ridiculous plot work. The characters' motives, logic, and basic sense of ethics change mid-plot with great frequency - not least of all Wonder Woman herself, a FauxActionGirl of an increasingly high order throughout. RockBeatsLaser is employed to an implausible extreme, culminating in the [[{{Narm}} dead-serious reveal]] that the secret Amazon weapon much of the plot revolves around is [[BeeBeeGun live bees.]] ("[[MemeticMutation Bees. My God."]]) To somehow make matters worse, unless you read the tie-ins, the Amazons and their in-continuity affiliates barely appear for the first half of the series. (Tie-ins which, mind you, were ''left out of the trade paperback collection'' in favor of ''text recaps''.) The creators didn't research the characters' past or the history of Franchise/{{the DCU}} Amazons at all. And adding insult to injury, the entire series was a lead-in to ''Countdown to Final Crisis'', which is at least as reviled as ''Amazons Attack''.

* The weekly series '''''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis''''' was intended to be a followup to the largely-acclaimed ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'', as well as a lead-in to ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' - like ''52'', the plan was for it to be focused on lesser-known characters having a number of different subplots. Unfortunately, things went off the rails badly. The weekly schedule resulted in the book effectively becoming a RoundRobin, with countless [[ContinuitySnarl continuity mistakes]], rushed artwork, and out-of-character moments resulting. ExecutiveMeddling held a lot of sway, forcing tie-ins and miniseries that turned the whole thing into a RandomEventsPlot. The individual storylines were full of baffling moments, from an inexplicable FaceHeelTurn on the part of Mary Marvel to many characters dying for practically no reason, and that's not counting the storylines that just ''[[AbortedArc stop.]]'' The series [[ArcFatigue ran for 52 issues on top of all the spinoffs]], so that's a ''lot'' of time for its various mistakes to start adding up, and adds a glacial pace to the whole endeavor. On top of it all, between the already confused storytelling and the inexplicable decision to not consult Creator/GrantMorrison on the plot of ''Final Crisis'' beyond some early scripts, [[ContinuitySnarl the story in no way jibes with the event it was supposed to lead into]].[[note]](For some idea of how little they cared about Morrison's intended direction: Morrison asked that the New Gods be put off-limits for a little while, since they'd be major players in ''Final Crisis'' and Morrison didn't want anything crazy involving them to happen. One of ''Countdown''[='s=] tie-in miniseries? ''Death of the New Gods'', which had the residents of both worlds being brutally slaughtered by a mystery killer.)[[/note]] The whole thing was declared CanonDiscontinuity the minute it was finished, but it still didn't erase the horrible taste it left in readers' mouths. It was so bad that the intended final issue, ''DC Universe #0'', written by Grant Morrison and Geoff Johns, essentially replaced ''Countdown'' as the real lead-up to ''Final Crisis'' (the only thing that was acknowledged from ''Countdown'' was ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}'s death, fall, and reincarnation into a human body as seen in ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers''). It was built up to be the spine of the DCU, but quickly became the appendix.

%%** It's hard to believe, but '''''ComicBook/{{Static}}'''''[='s=] series was this during 2011. Even though he was the BreakoutCharacter from Creator/MilestoneComics, had starred in a succesful [[WesternAnimation/StaticShock TV show]], and had joined the Teen Titans a few years prior, his New 52 reboot was so pathetic that it was cancelled after just eight issues - The action was messy and often amounted to [[ShockAndAwe shooting electricity]] and dodging attacks until Virgin finds a scientific way to defeat the villain, while anyone who wasn't Virgil was a FlatCharacter who only served to complement Static's plot, which didn't even go anywhere and amounted to nothing on the grand scheme of the New 52. It failed to capture the fun of the original show and didn't seem very interested in targeting either the fans of it, or the readers of his original comic book series, [[UncertainAudience but it didn't seem to try to do anything that could attract new readers either]], and it treated the events of the original comic in BroadStrokes. It also didn't help that the series [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot didn't really use its]] TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture setting, that sometimes felt ignored and forgotten. Following runs on the character were slightly divisive, but they were abso-bloody-lutely much better than this sack of garbage.

* '''''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice''''' (nicknamed "Gay for Justice" by readers, thanks to some unfortunate lettering styles), a miniseries by James Robinson that featured [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]] trying to create a [[HeroesActVillainsHinder proactive]] Justice League (because that always ends well). The series features gratuitous gore and violence, characters being dismembered, horrible writing and gross characterization, and everyone constantly shouting "[[ForGreatJustice For justice!]]" Put it this way - when the author directly and explicitly apologizes to the fans over the quality of the work, ''twice'', '''before the series has finished''', then you know you're dealing with something '''awful'''. It was laughably "edgy", even killing off Lian Harper (a fan-favorite '''child''' character) at the eleventh hour, which was just one among many senseless deaths that didn't advance the storyline. Robinson found himself under all manner of fire for its release, even though he fought tooth-and-nail against the editors, who wanted much, much more in the pointless death and destruction departments. Not two years later, it and both of its followups were retconned in full. [[BackFromTheDead An aged-up Lian eventually returned as a superhero herself]] and the story is now treated as an unpleasant relic from a bygone era. Linkara, one of the more calm and level-headed Channel Awesome personalities, broke character and growled with ''visceral'' rage during the murder of Lian.

* '''''ComicBook/TheAvengers #200''''' had ComicBook/MsMarvel PutOnABus, via an [[IdiotBall idiotic]] plot that raised countless troubling questions. Carol Danvers suddenly becomes pregnant and has a baby three days later, which is treated as nothing out of the ordinary by the other Avengers. Carol's concerns about the whole ordeal are either ignored or outright dismissed. The rapidly-aging kid then reveals he is actually an extradimensional being named Marcus, who brought Ms. Marvel to Limbo and [[DoubleStandardRapeSciFi forcibly impregnated her with himself]] so that he could escape. That's not FridgeLogic, either - Marcus explicitly states that he used MindControl to make Carol fall in love with him. Hawkeye is the only Avenger who doesn't sympathize with Marcus, and is treated as being ''in the wrong''. Even Ms. Marvel, who was consistently disturbed by all of this, suddenly falls in love with Marcus as he reaches adulthood and decides to leave with him to Limbo, reinforcing the idea that Carol was "being unreasonable". Her return in ''Avengers Annual #10'' revealed that she was [[{{Retcon}} still under mind control when she left]] and had her [[WhatTheHellHero chew out the Avengers for not doing anything to save her]], in an attempt to try and salvage some of this disaster. Creator/JimShooter [[http://www.jimshooter.com/2011/12/avengers-200.html regrets having been involved in it]], and none of the writers want to take credit for the plot. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIaUi4DDui4 Linkara]] also took a look at it, and has gone so far as to say it is [[http://atopthefourthwall.com/the-top-15-worst-comics-ive-ever-reviewed/ the second-worst comic he's ever reviewed,]] after ''Holy Terror''.

* Creator/ZebWells' run on ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan2022'', specifically '''''Dead Language''''' (Issues 21-26), ends the years-long arc with shock deaths and anticlimaxes. The threadbare plot features [[TheChewToy Peter Parker suffering untold torture]] at the hands of a flat, one-note original villain who worships a nonexistent Aztec death god. The artwork is also well below the standards of other ''Spider-Man'' books, especially the main villain, who is made to be as muddy as possible. The arc was hyped as featuring a major death on the anniversary of Gwen Stacy's passing, and left a litany of hints that Mary Jane was the target, from breaking up with Peter again to hooking up with the villain's son. All of this leads up to Issue 26, where - [[AssPull out of nowhere]] - [[Characters/MarvelComicsKamalaKhan Kamala Khan]] is suddenly StuffedInTheFridge despite barely appearing in the entire run up to that point and having nothing to do with the arc. [[VillainExitStageLeft The villain was defeated almost immediately afterwards]], leaving Peter with nothing to do but angst over Kamala's death. Fans suspected that her death was just a cheap and easy way to enforce [[RetCanon synergy with the MCU]] (where she was confirmed to be half-mutant in [[Series/MsMarvel2022 her series]]), and their suspicions were proven correct when she was resurrected as a mutant in ''Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant'', barely a ''month'' after her initial fridging. Changing an aspect of a character just to tie in to a movie/show is one thing, but it's another to do it in such a haphazard and tasteless manner. Critics and fans alike lambasted the book, having absolutely nothing positive to say about its artwork, plot, pacing, or conclusion; to get an idea of just how hated the book is, some have compared it ''unfavorably'' to ''One More Day'' (see below).

* The ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' storyline '''''ComicBook/OneMoreDay''''' is perhaps the most infamous case of ExecutiveMeddling in comics since ComicBook/TheCloneSaga. Decades of continuity and characterization were blinked out of existence because Creator/JoeQuesada, Marvel's editor-in-chief at the time, [[RunningTheAsylum hated the more modern aspects of Spidey's character]]. (Interestingly, the Clone Saga was conceived for a similar reason.) Creator/JMichaelStraczynski, the writer for this storyline, hated every minute of it and tried hard to get himself disassociated from it. It goes like this - Aunt May takes a bullet and is about to die. [[ReedRichardsIsUseless Somehow, nobody in the Marvel Universe can do anything to change that.]] So, in a move wholly detached from reality and maturity, Spider-Man makes a DealWithTheDevil to save Aunt May's life (against her wishes, by the way)...in exchange for his marriage and much of his relationship with Mary Jane being erased from history. It was contrived to the point of stupidity, worse in that Quesada claimed that having them just plain divorce would make the audience feel cheated. More likely, Joe no longer recognized the Spider-Man from his youth and wanted to [[NostalgiaFilter return to a simpler time]]. It acted as a massive ResetButton on the Spider-Books as a whole, retconning not just Peter and MJ's marriage (which might have been tolerable) but Spidey's ''[[TheUnmasking public unmasking]]'' during the ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}'' arc (which they expressly stated would ''not'' be undone). In addition to being a BerserkButton for Linkara (eventually being a special [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR1wQkPaYWA 200th]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6v1tuW9tYs episode]]), Creator/{{Huggbees}} also looked into how ridiculous the comic is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0aciWxM5YM here.]]
* '''''ComicBook/ThePunisherPurgatory''''' is widely considered to be the absolute worst moment in [[ComicBook/ThePunisher the Punisher franchise]] for how profoundly stupid its plot is and how it misguidedly tried to make the Punisher LighterAndSofter. It starts with Frank Castle committing suicide, before being brought back to life by the angel Gadriel as an immortal being with silly-looking angelic weapons who fights demons instead of criminals. It also retcons his backstory (something former Punisher writer Chuck Dixon was [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=130 not happy about]]) - instead of Frank's family getting caught in the crossfire of a random mob hit, they were intentionally murdered by Frank Costa (himself retconned to being a demon) to start a ritual where each person Castle killed would make Costa more powerful, making ''every single previous Punisher story'' AllForNothing. The story misses the entire point of the Punisher by trying to make him more altruistic (most likely to try and distance the character from the {{discredited|Trope}} NinetiesAntiHero trope), which only serves to ruin everything that made the character interesting in the first place. This series alienated so many readers that after one more miniseries, the Punisher was returned to a normal human in "[[ComicBook/ThePunisherWelcomeBackFrank Welcome Back, Frank]]". [[http://4thletter.net/2012/02/the-many-deaths-of-frank-castle/ 4th Letter]], [[http://www.therobotsvoice.com/2009/12/the_10_worst_90s_comic_character_revamps.php Robot's Voice]], [[http://comicsalliance.com/the-punishers-most-ridiculous-moments-ever/ Comics Alliance]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xofHyL-9kHg Linkara]] all gave the book negative reviews. It also wound up on [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19589_the-6-most-unintentionally-hilarious-superhero-reinventions.html Cracked's]] 6 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Superhero Reinventions, which commented that the storyline "completely undermined the intent of the character who had the simplest goal of any superhero ever".

* Most mainstream writers have ''some'' fans, but you'll have a ''very'' hard time finding any for '''Creator/ChuckAusten''' during his tenure at Marvel. He's infamous for introducing ''massive'' retcons to beloved characters, particularly those aimed at undoing the work of previous writers. Austen's writing also suffered from poor characterization and a leery focus on sex and relationships, often taking center-stage from the superhero plots (this makes some sense - prior to being contracted by Marvel, [[PornCreatorGoingMainstream he had mostly worked on porn comics]]). Shortly after his stint at Marvel, Austen was essentially blacklisted from the mainstream comics industry for the negative attention his work received.

* '''''Bimbos in Time''''' was created with the express purpose of writing the worst comic ever made - and although it's debatable if the author succeeded, you can tell he certainly gave his best effort. The comic is a black and white "humor" piece primarily about women running through time fighting some witch for reasons that are never explained because doing so would distract from the terrible attempts at comedy. It can't even be passed off as StylisticSuck, because there's no sense of style. Linkara reviewed it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCHdQ1MB1D4 here]] and later declared it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxfQ9DkoPYA the third worst comic he's ever reviewed]]. Bizarrely, it may have a [[https://hammerhouseofhorror.fandom.com/wiki/Bimbos_in_Time_(1993) film adaptation]]...

* The Creator/ValiantComics-Creator/ImageComics [[IntercontinuityCrossover crossover]] '''''ComicBook/DeathMate'''''. The plot goes that ''[[ComicBook/DoctorSolar Solar, Man of the Atom]]'' and Void of ''ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm'' make love, resulting in the creation of an alternate universe where Valiant and Image characters co-exist. The writing is horrible, the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/DeathMate.jpg art]] as [[Creator/RobLiefeld Liefeldian]] as it has ever been for an Image publication, and the concept flawed - the crossover was designed to be [[AnachronicOrder read in theoretically any order]] alongside the bookend prologue and epilogue issues, resulting in the comic being a disjointed mess in practice. To put it in perspective, a coherent reading order wasn't discovered until 2017, ''24 years'' after it was published. ''Deathmate'' helped [[CreatorKiller destroy]] Valiant Comics and the NinetiesAntiHero archetype and was one of the contributing factors that led to UsefulNotes/TheGreatComicsCrashOf1996; Valiant's commitment to a real-time continuity made sure they were serious about schedules and deadlines, while Image was infamous for their ScheduleSlip. The Valiant-published prologue only came out because Valiant editor Bob Layton came to Liefeld's house and would not leave until Liefeld was done with his contribution to the issue, and then inked it in his hotel room. Image's contributions were released years after interest had dried up, leaving shop owners who had back-ordered massive amounts of copies with an unsellable product, which led to lots of small comics shops going out of business. "Their love [[HarsherInHindsight will end worlds]]", indeed.

* The original '''''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' comics from Devil's Due Publishing'''. Nothing good can happen when you take a show that mostly derives its humor from delivery, timing, and voice acting and adapt it into a medium that can use ''none of that''. There are zero attempts to make this in any way comic-like. The panels are just rows of boxes, composed of a vaguely comic-like simulacrum. A joke or conversation will start in the third-to-last panel on one page and end halfway into the next. Everything looks stiff like someone just took a screencap of the show. The comic is almost always at 3/4 view, and the artwork is full of blatant copying and pasting - facial expressions, poses, and entire panels are copied wholesale. The book only lasted three issues, and all three were collected into a TPB lovingly named "''Family Guy'': A Big Book o' Crap." [[CreatorBacklash Really says something about what the people who worked on it thought of it.]]

* The [[Horrible/LiveActionFilms awful]] Russian film '''''Film/Guardians2017''''' spawned multiple comic books set in [[TheVerse the same universe]] which are as bad if not worse than the film itself. The artwork ranges from mediocre to bad, awful, stolen, and flat-out unfinished. Every plot could be described as a RandomEventsPlot - one issue starts with the Guardians going to the North Pole to talk with a Franchise/{{Superman}} {{Expy}}, then [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext they fight]] an evil {{necromancer}} who looks like a hobo and talks in GratuitousGerman, then the necromancer runs out of zombies and just goes away. The End. There are multiple attempts at humor, all either confusing or cringe-inducing. These comics are also filled with moments of utter stupidity, like people talking about email in ''[[AnachronismStew 1962]]'' or a character refusing to fight zombies because they were [[ApeShallNeverKillApe Russians]]. [=BadComedian=] takes a brief look at these [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pconHWXO3Ss in his review of the movie]].

** '''''Sonic Live!''''' is considered to be not just one of Penders' worst works but one of the worst things to come out of Archie's 24 years with the license. The main story of the issue involves Sonic being ostensibly killed by Robotnik, but in actuality is transported to the inside of a TV set (supposedly an "in-between zone" between the gap of Mobius and Earth) and meeting two kids who are Sonic fans, both initially depicted with (poorly made, both in composition and quality - one of them is playing Sonic on ''a TV remote in front of a blank TV set'') photographs of Penders' son and niece. Sonic drags them into their TV screen so he can get back to Mobius, only to soon find themselves in another world where Robotnik schemes to take over the universe. The plot is a contrived ripoff of ''Film/LastActionHero'', right down to the issue's alternate title of "The Last Game Cartridge Hero", everyone is out of character[[note]](to set up the scene, the beginning has Robotnik captures all the Freedom Fighters but Sonic... and locks them up in cages, not even bothering to try and roboticize them despite already having them in his clutches, and Sonic inexplictably talks in TechnoBabble)[[/note]], numerous arcs are left unexplained and others wouldn't have made a difference if they were left out entirely, a lot of the art falls head-first into [[UnintentionalUncannyValley Uncanny Valley]][[note]](the cover art where a massive Sonic comes out of a TV screen, and the kids are drawn in a disturbingly realistic style for its first half)[[/note]], the excuse for why Sonic and co are known in the real world needs to be seen to be believed[[labelnote:Explanation]](one of the captuired humans [[HandWave hand waves]] that his inital sketched design was from the results of "transmissions received from a prototype device"... [[FridgeLogic which not only raises more questions]], but also implies that Naoto Ohshima, who actually created Sonic's design, was unoriginal)[[/labelnote]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the story isn't even 48 pages long, as the cover deceptively advertises]] (but that might be a saving grace depending on who you ask). Beyond a very brief mention in the gallery of ''Sonic Mega Collection'', it's one of the very few Archie stories from the 90s never to have been reprinted, and for good reason. It was the subject of ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall''[='s=] [[https://youtu.be/XB0-AF_Ofaw 100th episode]], and later on, Sonic [=YouTuber=] "Game Apologist" would [[https://youtu.be/1k62sCd7_CM tear it a new one]] from his perspective as a lifelong Sonic fan.

* '''''ComicBook/TheUnfunnies''''' by Creator/MarkMillar is a comic that can't decide if it wants to be a horror story or a gross-out black comedy, and the resulting mess fails to do either. The premise is simple enough: a happy Creator/HannaBarbera-style cartoon world is corrupted when its disgraced creator switches his soul with one of the main characters to escape death row and starts using godlike powers to warp it into a horrible nightmare world. [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot What might be an interesting premise]] is bogged down by terrible attempts at moments that try for RefugeInAudacity but are too disgusting to be funny and too ridiculously stupid to be scary. [[SpecialEffectsFailure Bad attempts at mixing real photos and art]] make the "reveal" of the villain embarrassing rather than shocking. To make matters worse, Millar was trying to [[ShallowParody write commentary on a medium he didn't understand]], a problem which is inherently toxic to satire and had two fatal negative effects on the comic. First, the entire point of the comic is a meta commentary on how cartoons have been "corrupted" by real world cynicism, but it doesn't work because [[OlderThanTheyThink some of the oldest cartoons in history have had sex and violence.]] (This is also stunningly [[{{hypocrite}} hypocritical]] coming from someone who had no problem writing stuff like ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}''.) Second, it resulted in terrible art, as Millar thought little of the art style and would actively tell his artist to draw ''worse''. The end result isn't a good black comedy, and it isn't a scary metaphysical horror story. It's a juvenile, low-brow, and downright stupid farce desperately trying and failing at everything it attempts. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110810212742/http://comicsbulletin.com/features/107419514831683.htm Millar's own (then-)wife hated it so much she tossed the book at his head]]. Millar himself would eventually come to regret working on it and [[BuryYourArt do everything in his power to pretend the comic never existed in the first place]].
* Behind the already-bad-but-copied-enough-that-no-one-cares-anymore Creator/RobLiefeld-esque art of the '''''ComicBook/{{Warrior}}''''' mini-series lies unheard-of levels of walls and WallsOfText that contain bad grammar and [[MeaninglessMeaningfulWords made-up words]] used to explain "destrucity", a philosophy of former Wrestling/{{WWE}} wrestler Wrestling/UltimateWarrior, which [[WordSaladPhilosophy makes no sense to anyone in the world except him]]. Oh, and then there was the Christmas special consisting entirely of pinups, several of which have violent and disturbing imagery - including, much to [[http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/warrior-xmas/ the abject horror and disgust]] of [[Website/IMockery RoG]], what appears to be [[FanDisservice unflatteringly]] showing viewers the immediate aftermath of the Warrior's ''[[BrainBleach rape of Santa Claus]]''.[[note]](The image seems to be ''intended'' to be Warrior borrowing Santa's outfit after the jolly old elf got DrunkOnMilk, but we're left with an image of him with a stripped-naked Santa with white liquid all down his front.)[[/note]] [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] and [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] teamed up to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlGpiZ1Mcfw review]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIumCP7kQBQ the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGnQ0z6A3qk series]].

* The ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' comic '''''ComicBook/TheBeastWithin''''', both of its issues released as pack-in bonuses for Metrodome's UK DVD release of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', is poorly drawn, incoherent, badly written, and completely independent of any known canon. Special mention goes to the Beast, a Dinobot combiner. Fans had been pondering what one would look like for years - the fact that [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:THE_BEAST.jpg its canon appearance]] was a ridiculous mishmash of techno junk (most of which isn't recognizable as any one Dinobot, defeating the point of making it a combiner in the first place) with a bizarrely pointy chin came off as a slap in the face. Given its release method, it fortunately never left the rainy shores of England, but scans quickly hit the Internet for all to mock. It's unclear whether Hasbro's story team was aware of this story's existence, but for many years they insisted that there was no Dinobot combiner, leading many to wonder if they were subtly trying to [[CanonDiscontinuity retcon it out of existence]]. Eventually, a new, more traditional Dinobot combiner, Volcanicus, came along, finally letting fans [[FanonDiscontinuity ignore the story]] once and for all. When Hasbro acknowledged this story's canon on the "Ask Vector Prime" Facebook page, it was left vulnerable by Unicron and eaten by the Hytherion. Good riddance, too.

* '''''ComicBook/StreetFighterMalibuComics''''': The art was low-end 90s quality. The writing made the games themselves look deep and nuanced. However, both of those pale in comparison to the butchering of most of the heroes' personalities: Ryu is turned into a StrawMisogynist {{Jerkass}}, Chun-Li is his bitter ex, and Ken is an American chunkhead. After Sagat and Balrog murdered Ken in the second issue [[note]](for non-fans of the series, this would be like a [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]] series having Batman murdered by Bane and Killer Croc)[[/note]], Capcom themselves stepped in and pulled the plug on the series. It thus ended with just three issues published. The comic is considered the nadir of ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' adaptations (yes, that includes [[WesternAnimation/StreetFighter the American cartoon]], [[Film/StreetFighter the Van Damme/Raul Julia movie]], and ''[[Film/StreetFighterTheLegendOfChunLi The Legend of Chun-Li]]''). ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' put this at #2 of the [[https://www.cracked.com/article_20091_the-5-most-hilariously-misguided-comic-book-adaptations.html 5 Most Hilariously Misguided Comic Book Adaptations]].

* '''''ComicBook/TheUnfunnies''''' by Creator/MarkMillar is a comic that can't decide if it wants to be a horror story or a gross-out black comedy, and the resulting mess fails to do either. The premise is simple enough: a happy Creator/HannaBarbera-style cartoon world is corrupted when its disgraced creator switches his soul with one of the main characters to escape death row and starts using godlike powers to warp it into a horrible nightmare world. [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot What might be an interesting premise]] is bogged down by terrible attempts at moments that try for RefugeInAudacity but are too disgusting to be funny and too ridiculously stupid to be scary. [[SpecialEffectsFailure Bad attempts at mixing real photos and art]] make the "reveal" of the villain embarrassing rather than shocking. To make matters worse, Millar was trying to [[ShallowParody write commentary on a medium he didn't understand]], a problem which is inherently toxic to satire and had two fatal negative effects on the comic. First, the entire point of the comic is a meta commentary on how cartoons have been "corrupted" by real world cynicism, but it doesn't work because [[OlderThanTheyThink some of the oldest cartoons in history have had sex and violence.]] (This is also stunningly [[{{hypocrite}} hypocritical]] coming from someone who had no problem writing stuff like ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'') Second, it resulted in terrible art, as Millar thought little of the art style and would actively tell his artist to draw ''worse''. The end result isn't a good black comedy, and it isn't a scary metaphysical horror story. It's a juvenile, low-brow, and downright stupid farce desperately trying and failing at everything it attempts. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110810212742/http://comicsbulletin.com/features/107419514831683.htm Millar's own (then-)wife hated it so much she tossed the book at his head]]. Millar himself would eventually come to regret working on it and [[BuryYourArt do everything in his power to pretend the comic never existed in the first place]].

* '''''ComicBook/TheUnfunnies''''' by Creator/MarkMillar is a comic that can't decide if it wants to be a horror story or a gross-out black comedy, and the resulting mess fails to do either. The premise is simple enough: a happy Creator/HannaBarbera-style cartoon world is corrupted when its disgraced creator switches his soul with one of the main characters to escape death row and starts using godlike powers to warp it into a horrible nightmare world. What might be an interesting premise is bogged down by terrible attempts at moments that try for RefugeInAudacity but are too disgusting to be funny and too ridiculously stupid to be scary. [[SpecialEffectsFailure Bad attempts at mixing real photos and art]] make the "reveal" of the villain embarrassing rather than shocking. To make matters worse, Millar was trying to [[ShallowParody write commentary on a medium he didn't understand]], a problem which is inherently toxic to satire and had two fatal negative effects on the comic. First, the entire point of the comic is a meta commentary on how cartoons have been "corrupted" by real world cynicism, but it doesn't work because [[OlderThanTheyThink some of the oldest cartoons in history have had sex and violence.]] (This is also stunningly [[{{hypocrite}} hypocritical]] coming from someone who had no problem writing stuff like ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'') Second, it resulted in terrible art, as Millar thought little of the art style and would actively tell his artist to draw worse. The end result isn't a good black comedy, and it isn't a scary metaphysical horror story. It's a juvenile, low-brow, and downright stupid farce desperately trying and failing at everything it attempts. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110810212742/http://comicsbulletin.com/features/107419514831683.htm Millar's own (then-)wife hated it so much she tossed the book at his head]]. Millar himself would eventually come to regret working on it and [[BuryYourArt do everything in his power to pretend the comic never existed in the first place]].

** An often-forgotten portion of Austen's Marvel work is his time on '''''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'''''. Brought in as a fill-in for John Ney Rieber, Austen had to finish scripts for Rieber's last two partially-completed arcs, ''The Extremists'' and ''Ice''. In the former, Cap learns via fever dream that his time in suspended animation was because the U.S. government (with the approval of President Truman) implanted false memories of the famous Zemo incident in Cap's mind, stuck him in ice, and presumably ''murdered Bucky'' so the duo wouldn't interfere with the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. The latter is an AllJustADream test by a character called the Interrogator who has been tasked to see if he can get Cap to break his ThouShallNotKill rule. Cap succeeds in beating the test, but then kills the Interrogator because he kind of attacked him. In his dying moments, the Interrogator reveals his employer is the US Secretary of Defense. The story then abruptly ends then and there with no resolution. A little while later, Creator/GeoffJohns revealed in his ''Avengers'' run that the Secretary was in fact the ComicBook/RedSkull the whole time, giving the storyline at least a little closure. Soon after, Cap's book was rebooted by Creator/EdBrubaker, who completely ignored any of Austen's plot points (Cap kills when necessary, the US did not in fact freeze Cap, and Bucky is alive and certainly not murdered by his own government) to the relief of anyone that remembered.

** Though the Manga/MarvelMangaverse has fairly low regard, Austen's take on '''''ComicBook/GhostRider''''' deserves special mention. The plot is borderline incomprehensible and characters that [[InNameOnly barely resemble]] their mainstream versions, which might be forgivable were it not, like ''War Machine'', featuring the same primitive CGI and even worse paneling. Fortunately, the human characters are drawn traditionally; in fact, so traditionally that they were found to have been traced from a "How To Draw Manga" book.

* '''''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice''''' (nicknamed "Gay for Justice" by readers, thanks to some unfortunate lettering styles), a miniseries by James Robinson that featured [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]] trying to create a [[HeroesActVillainsHinder proactive]] Justice League (because that always ends well). The series features gratuitous gore and violence, characters being dismembered, horrible writing and gross characterization, and everyone constantly shouting "[[ForGreatJustice For justice!]]" Put it this way - when the author directly and explicitly apologizes to the fans over the quality of the work, ''twice'', '''before the series has finished''', then you know you're dealing with something '''awful'''. It was laughably "edgy", even killing off Lian Harper (a fan-favorite '''child''' character) at the eleventh hour, which was just one among many senseless deaths that didn't advance the storyline. Robinson found himself under all manner of fire for its release, even though he fought tooth-and-nail against the editors, who wanted much, much more in the pointless death and destruction departments. Not two years later, it and both of its followups were retconned in full. [[BackFromTheDead An aged-up Lian eventually returned as a superhero herself]] and the story is now treated as an unpleasent relic from a bygone era. Linkara, one of the more calm and level-headed Channel Awesome personalities, broke character and growled with ''visceral'' rage during the murder of Lian.

# To ensure that the work is judged with a clear mind and the hatred isn't just a knee-jerk reaction, as well as to allow opinions to properly form, '''[[Administrivia/NoRecentExamplesPlease examples should not be added until at least one month after release]]'''.

* The Creator/ValiantComics-Creator/ImageComics [[IntercontinuityCrossover crossover]] '''''ComicBook/DeathMate'''''. The plot goes that ''[[ComicBook/DoctorSolar Solar, Man of the Atom]]'' and Void of ''ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm'' make love, resulting in the creation of an alternate universe where Valiant and Image characters co-exist. The writing is horrible, the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/DeathMate.jpg art]] as [[Creator/RobLiefeld Liefeldian]] as it has ever been for an Image publication, and the concept flawed - the crossover was designed to be [[AnachronicOrder read in theoretically any order]] alongside the bookend prologue and epilogue issues, resulting in the comic being a disjointed mess in practice. To put it in perspective, a coherent reading order wasn't discovered until '''2017, 24 years after it was published. ''Deathmate'' helped [[CreatorKiller destroy]] Valiant Comics and the NinetiesAntiHero archetype and was one of the contributing factors that led to UsefulNotes/TheGreatComicsCrashOf1996; Valiant's commitment to a real-time continuity made sure they were serious about schedules and deadlines, while Image was infamous for their ScheduleSlip. The Valiant-published prologue only came out because Valiant editor Bob Layton came to Liefeld's house and would not leave until Liefeld was done with his contribution to the issue, and then inked it in his hotel room. Image's contributions were released years after interest had dried up, leaving shop owners who had back-ordered massive amounts of copies with an unsellable product, which led to lots of small comics shops going out of business. "Their love [[HarsherInHindsight will end worlds]]", indeed.

* '''''ComicBook/HeroesInCrisis''''', possibly the most hated DC story since ''Cry for Justice''. The premise of how superheroes deal with mental trauma could've been good... [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot in remotely competent hands.]] Instead, it uses mental health as just wallpaper for a mediocre MurderMystery, loaded with horrible implications and bad retcons to either [[CerebusRetcon invent traumatic experiences where none existed]] or [[SeriesContinuityError misrepresent traumatic experiences that did]]. The story ultimately makes little to no sense, with the last few issues bending over backwards to excuse making ''Wally West'' the killer ([[ExecutiveMeddling on order]] from Creator/DanDiDio, who [[CreatorsPest a character hated him]]). While the art was initially praised, it soon became bizarrely over-sexual, with invasive injuries and ''dead bodies'' handled in a nigh-pornographic manner. So went the goodwill built by ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'', [=DiDio=] and writer Creator/TomKing's reputations, and, in perhaps the only upshot, [[{{Retcon}} the story itself... in two years.]] Linkara would review it as the finale for his Event Comics Month III, which starts [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp2nn-s8mCU here]].

* '''''Bimbos in Time''''' was created with the express purpose of writing the worst comic ever made - and although it's debatable if the author succeeded, you can tell he certainly gave his best effort. The comic is a black and white "humor" piece primarily about women running through time fighting some witch for reasons that are never explained because doing so would distract from the terrible attempts at comedy. It's not even just that the comic is stupid, that would be one thing; it's more accurate to say that this comic is trying to be stupid but failing to do so convincingly. Linkara reviewed it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCHdQ1MB1D4 here]] and later declared it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxfQ9DkoPYA the third worst comic he's ever reviewed]]. Bizarrely, it may have a [[https://hammerhouseofhorror.fandom.com/wiki/Bimbos_in_Time_(1993) film adaptation]]...
%%* '''''Chronos Carnival''''', a story featuring a travelling carnival in space, is widely considered to be the worst-written strip ever run in ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD''. Its embittered HandicappedBadass protagonist raised a few UnfortunateImplications that were only gotten away with because the artist who drew it was handicapped himself.
%%Unfortunate Implications alone isn't enough to justify an entry here. Please elaborate more as to why it's terrible.

* '''''ComicBook/HeroesInCrisis''''', possibly the most hated DC story since ''Cry for Justice''. The premise of how superheroes deal with mental trauma could've been good... [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot in remotely competent hands.]] Instead, it uses mental health as just wallpaper for a mediocre MurderMystery, loaded with horrible implications and bad retcons to either [[CerebusRetcon invent traumatic experiences where none existed]] or [[SeriesContinuityError misrepresent traumatic experiences that did]]. The story ultimately makes little to no sense, with the last few issues bending over backwards to excuse making ''Wally West'' the killer ([[ExecutiveMeddling on order]] from Creator/DanDiDio, who [[CreatorsPest a character hated him]]). While the art was initially praised, it was soon soiled by the bizarrely over-sexual, with invasive injuries and ''dead bodies'' handled in a nigh-pornographic manner. So went the goodwill built by ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'', [=DiDio=] and writer Creator/TomKing's reputations, and, in perhaps the only upshot, [[{{Retcon}} the story itself... in two years.]] Linkara would review it as the finale for his Event Comics Month III, which starts [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp2nn-s8mCU here]].

* '''''ComicBook/HeroesInCrisis''''', possibly the most hated DC story since ''Cry for Justice''. When it was announced, it was advertised as an exploration of how superheroes deal with mental trauma. Fans and critics responded positively at first, thinking it would explore how years of adventure and saving the world had taken their toll on the heroes of the DC universe and possibly provide some worthwhile commentary on mental health through a fantastic lens. Unfortunately, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot the end result was ultimately regarded to be absolute garbage]], thanks to the advertised premise being bungled beyond belief along with the story itself being completely nonsensical. Advocates for mental health and trauma awareness were openly disgusted by how it treated mental health as just wallpaper for a mediocre MurderMystery, loaded with horrible implications and bad retcons to either [[CerebusRetcon invent traumatic experiences where none existed]] or [[SeriesContinuityError misrepresent the traumas of characters with existing mental issues due to improper research]]. The story ultimately makes little to no sense, with the last few issues having to bend over backwards to justify the identity of the killer (who turns out to be ''Wally West''; it was later confirmed that Wally being the (alleged) killer was ExecutiveMeddling from Creator/DanDiDio using the event to smear [[CreatorsPest a character he hated]]). While the art was initially praised, it was soon soiled by the bizarrely over-sexual nature that included pornographic invasive injuries and ''dead bodies''. With the book having completely killed the goodwill built by ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'', the story was so bad that the reputations of [=DiDio=] and writer Creator/TomKing were tainted, and pretty much every fan wanted to retcon it out of existence. The story was, in fact, retconned just two years later. Linkara would review it as the finale for his Event Comics Month III, which starts [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp2nn-s8mCU here]].

* '''''Future 5: The Power of Your Mind''''' is a PSA comic whose half-baked premise (a supervillain tries to TakeOverTheWorld by having kids not go to college) and even flimsier cast could've been SoBadItsGood... were the message not even worse. It treats with scorn the idea that anyone would not want to go to college, treats unskilled labor and its workers as a blight, and claims that you have to have your life planned by the time you turn 25, all with complete sincerity. Linkara reviews it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59MPCnBvmOI here]].

* '''''Future 5: The Power of Your Mind''''' is a PSA comic whose half-baked premise (a supervillain tries to TakeOverTheWorld by having kids not go to college) and even flimsier cast could've been SoBadItsGood... were the message not even worse. It [[AcademiaElitism treats with scorn the idea that anyone would not want to go to college]], treats unskilled labor and its workers as a blight, and claims that you have to have your life planned by the time you turn 25, all with complete sincerity. Linkara reviews it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59MPCnBvmOI here]].

* '''''Future 5: The Power of Your Mind''''' is a PSA comic whose half-baked premise (a supervillain tries to TakeOverTheWorld by having kids not go to college) and even flimsier cast could've been SoBadItsGood... were the message not even worse. It treats with scorn the idea that anyone would not want to go to college, treats unskilled labor and its workers as a blight, and claims that you have to have your life planned by the time you turn 25, all with complete sincerity. Linkara reviews it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59MPCnBvmOI here]].

* '''''ComicBook/{{Marville}}''''', written by Bill Jemas, was created on a bet between him and Creator/PeterDavid to see who could write a better-selling comic. The problem here is that at the time he worked for Marvel, Jemas was an '''editor'''. And it ''shows''. The first two issues are filled with terrible jokes that feel like they were stolen from a rejected Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg script, ham-fisted political commentary, characters from the mainline Marvel universe showing up just to act out of character and do unfunny things, heaping piles of countless plot holes, and tons of [[TakeThat mean-spirited digs at DC Comics and Peter David]]. Starting partway through Issue 3, the story devolved into utterly bizarre theological psychobabble about Jemas's home-grown branch of young-Earth creationism (including Wolverine evolving from an otter and the idea that Jesus is "the first superhero"). The last two issues (6-7) were [[RecapEpisode a recap of the series]] and a guide on how to submit scripts to a now-defunct comic line. Bonus points: Issue 3 had no speech bubbles and only two thought clouds (which come from ''a fish''), with the text being written script-style along the sides of the panels, often covering up the artwork. Also, the cover art featuring a red-haired woman ([[LadyNotAppearingInThisGame who appeared nowhere in the comic]]) in [[SexSells various states of undress]] when Jemas was certain that he'd lose the bet (he did), with the last issues moving these to variants and using [[WolverinePublicity Wolverine-themed covers]]. Unsurprisingly, Linkara said "[[Film/PulpFiction Bring out the Gimp]]" and [[http://atopthefourthwall.com/marville-1/ trashed]] [[http://atopthefourthwall.com/marville-2/ all]] [[http://atopthefourthwall.com/marville-3/ six]] ([[http://atopthefourthwall.com/marville-4/ technically]] [[http://atopthefourthwall.com/marville-5/ seven]]) [[http://atopthefourthwall.com/marville-6-7/ issues]], as did an entertaining blog series titled "[[http://4thletter.net/2009/03/the-marville-horror-part-1-better-sales-through-self-immolation/ The Marville Horror]]".

* '''''ComicBook/TheCrossing''''', an insane [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]] BatFamilyCrossover supposedly about Kang trying to take over the world. The plot makes no sense and is so convoluted that it's hard to tell where it begins; even the staff behind the ''Official Marvel Handbook'' struggled to come up with a coherent reading order. It also features the FaceHeelTurn and death of [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] and his replacement by his alternate dimension younger counterpart, "Teen Tony". Eventually, in ''ComicBook/AvengersForever'', Kurt Busiek said that everyone involved was a Space Phantom and it was a plot by Immortus, who was pretending to be Kang ([[TimeyWimeyBall his younger self]]) and messing with the Avengers in a gambit to control the timestream.

* '''''ComicBook/ThePunisherPurgatory''''' is widely considered to be the absolute worst moment in [[ComicBook/ThePunisher the Punisher franchise]] for how profoundly stupid its plot is and how it misguidedly tried to make the Punisher LighterAndSofter. It starts with Frank Castle committing suicide, before being brought back to life by the angel Gadriel as an immortal being with silly-looking angelic weapons. It also retcons his entire backstory (something former Punisher writer Chuck Dixon was [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=130 not happy about]]) - instead of Frank's family getting caught in the crossfire of a random mob hit, they were intentionally murdered by Frank Costa (himself retconned to being a demon) as part of some ritual for an overly complicated XanatosGambit which involves Frank killing all of Costa's soldiers to send them to Hell to make him more powerful or something. The story misses the entire point of the Punisher by trying to make him more altruistic (most likely to try and distance the character from the {{discredited|Trope}} NinetiesAntiHero trope), which only serves to ruin everything that made the character interesting in the first place. This series alienated so many readers that after one more miniseries, the Punisher was returned to a normal human in "[[ComicBook/ThePunisherWelcomeBackFrank Welcome Back Frank]]". [[http://4thletter.net/2012/02/the-many-deaths-of-frank-castle/ 4th Letter]], [[http://www.therobotsvoice.com/2009/12/the_10_worst_90s_comic_character_revamps.php Robot's Voice]], [[http://comicsalliance.com/the-punishers-most-ridiculous-moments-ever/ Comics Alliance]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xofHyL-9kHg Linkara]] all gave the book negative reviews. It also wound up on [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19589_the-6-most-unintentionally-hilarious-superhero-reinventions.html Cracked's]] 6 Most Unintentionally Hilarious Superhero Reinventions, which commented that the storyline "completely undermined the intent of the character who had the simplest goal of any superhero ever".

* Creator/JephLoeb's '''''ComicBook/TheUltimates3''''' is accused of having exceptionally-poor writing and {{Flanderization}} ''en masse''. Many critics argue that Loeb hadn't bothered reading any of the other books in the [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate universe]] or familiarizing himself with their characters, as he depicted the characters as caricatures of their counterparts in Earth-616 even when it clashes with their established personalities. For example, Thor speaks in YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe despite speaking normal English before, Valkyrie is now a superpowered love interest for Thor rather than a non-powered LoonyFan, and the Wasp is white instead of Asian. It is loaded with {{Plot Hole}}s, horrible pacing, and stupid, ''stupid'' writing mistakes. The plot is a convoluted mess where a robot falls in love with Scarlet Witch, then decides to kill her [[InsaneTrollLogic because she's in an incestuous relationship with Quicksilver]] (no, it doesn't make sense in context either). This causes Magneto's faction to attack the Ultimates at the same time as a [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters robot uprising]] begins. A long {{Flashback}} where Wolverine has sex with Scarlet Witch's mother that exists for gratuitous {{Fanservice}} and doesn't make sense with established continuity is even thrown in to waste time that could've been used making sense of this. Linkara reviews the series [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngOJTkRmIbk here]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU6-wwRqwZI here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqC40TIwp_o here]].

* Most mainstream writers have ''some'' fans, but you'll have a ''very'' hard time finding any for '''Creator/ChuckAusten''' during his tenure at Marvel. He's infamous for introducing ''massive'' retcons to beloved characters, particularly those aimed at undoing the work of previous writers. Austen's writing also suffered from poor characterization and a leery focus on sex and relationships, often taking center-stage from the superhero plots (this makes some sense - prior to being contracted by Marvel, [[BleachedUnderpants he had mostly worked on porn comics]]). Shortly after his stint at Marvel, Austen was essentially blacklisted from the mainstream comics industry for the negative attention his work received.
** For ''Comicbook/UncannyXMen'', he was responsible for the nonsensical '''''Holy War''''' arc, which involved the mutant-hating Church of Mankind brainwashing Nightcrawler and making him the Pope while planning to make his holographic disguise fail, and also handing out communion wafers that make people explode in order to fake the Rapture. The same run also {{retcon}}ned Nightcrawler from being a demon-like mutant to actually being the son of a demon, ruining the point of this charming guy who's shunned for looking different. Other story beats included an out-of-place WholePlotReference to ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', and Archangel and Husk having a midair public sex scene. This run was so poorly received that even DC dropped Austen to avoid any residual backlash and had his last two issues of ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' ghostwritten. Comic Tropes looks at the run in more detail [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glqoiUm5ECQ here.]]

* '''''ComicBook/TheUnfunnies''''' by Creator/MarkMillar is a comic that can't decide if it wants to be a horror story or a gross-out black comedy, and the resulting mess fails to do either. The premise is simple enough: a happy Creator/HannaBarbera-style cartoon world is corrupted when its disgraced creator switches his soul with one of the main characters to escape death row and starts using godlike powers to warp it into a horrible nightmare world. What might be an interesting premise is bogged down by terrible attempts at moments that try for RefugeInAudacity but are too disgusting to be funny and too ridiculously stupid to be scary. [[SpecialEffectsFailure Bad attempts at mixing real photos and art]] make the "reveal" of the villain embarrassing rather than shocking. To make matters worse, Millar was trying to [[ShallowParody write commentary on a genre he didn't understand]], a problem which is inherently toxic to satire and had two fatal negative effects on the comic. First, the entire point of the comic is a meta commentary on how cartoons have been "corrupted" by real world cynicism, but it doesn't work because [[OlderThanTheyThink some of the oldest cartoons in history have had sex and violence.]] (This is also stunningly [[{{hypocrite}} hypocritical]] coming from someone who had no problem writing stuff like ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'') Second, it resulted in terrible art, as Millar thought little of the art style and would actively tell his artist to draw worse. The end result isn't a good black comedy, and it isn't a scary metaphysical horror story. It's a juvenile, low-brow, and downright stupid farce desperately trying and failing at everything it attempts. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110810212742/http://comicsbulletin.com/features/107419514831683.htm Millar's own (then-)wife hated it so much she tossed the book at his head]]. Millar himself would eventually come to regret working on it and [[BuryYourArt do everything in his power to pretend the comic never existed in the first place]].

* '''''ComicBook/TheUnfunnies''''' by Creator/MarkMillar is a comic that can't decide if it wants to be a horror story or a gross-out black comedy, and the resulting mess fails to do either. The premise is simple enough: a happy Creator/HannaBarbera-style cartoon world is corrupted when its disgraced creator switches his soul with one of the main characters to escape death row and starts using godlike powers to warp it into a horrible nightmare world. What might be an interesting premise is bogged down by terrible attempts at moments that try for RefugeInAudacity but are too disgusting to be funny and too ridiculously stupid to be scary. [[SpecialEffectsFailure Bad attempts at mixing real photos and art]] make the "reveal" of the villain embarrassing rather than shocking. To make matters worse, Millar was trying to [[ShallowParody write commentary on a genre he didn't understand]], a problem which is inherently toxic to satire and had two fatal negative effects on the comic. First, the entire point of the comic is a meta commentary on how cartoons have been "corrupted" by real world cynicism, but it doesn't work because [[OlderThanTheyThink some of the oldest cartoons in history have had sex and violence.]] (This is also stunningly [[{{hypocrite}} hypocritical]] coming from someone who had no problem writing stuff like ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'') Second, it resulted in terrible art, as Millar thought "cartoony" art meant "shitty", and he would actively tell his artist to draw worse. The end result isn't a good black comedy, and it isn't a scary metaphysical horror story. It's a juvenile, low-brow, and downright stupid farce desperately trying and failing at everything it attempts. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20110810212742/http://comicsbulletin.com/features/107419514831683.htm Millar's own (then-)wife hated it so much she tossed the book at his head]]. Millar himself would eventually come to regret working on it and [[BuryYourArt do everything in his power to pretend the comic never existed in the first place]].

* '''''Future Five''''' is a PSA comic that ''would'' be SoBadItsGood thanks to the premise (a supervillain tries to TakeOverTheWorld by having kids not go to college) had it not been for the terrible message it gives: It portrays anyone who doesn't go to college as an idiot, demonizes professions like fast-food services, and claims that you have to have your life planned by the time you turn 25, all with complete sincerity. Linkara reviews it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59MPCnBvmOI here]].

** '''''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}''''', the follow-up to ''The Ultimates 3'', is considered the absolute worst book in the Ultimate Universe and one of the worst comics Marvel's ever released; fans often consider it [[AlternateCompanyEquivalent Marvel's counterpart to]] ''Countdown to Final Crisis'' in all the worst ways possible. The plot goes more-or-less as thus: Following the deaths of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, Magneto decides to destroy the world by [[SeriesContinuityError either]] shifting the Earth's magnetic poles (which wouldn't cause the disasters depicted) or knocking the Earth off its axis ([[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands an ability that he's never even been hinted to have]]). Also, this whole thing is revealed to be a ridiculously convoluted plan by Doctor Doom where he'd make Magneto incite a human-mutant war and [[MissingStepsPlan somehow]] Doom would rule the Earth after. It is a sickening capstone to a once-promising line of comics and an incoherent clusterfuck that confirms every negative stereotype about [[CrisisCrossover crossovers]]. It's bursting with [[CListFodder meaningless and cruel deaths]][[note]](most infamously, the Wasp is ''eaten alive'' by the Blob... with whatever led up to this somehow happening taking place '''off-panel''')[[/note]] for no apparent purpose other than to "[[EverybodyDiesEnding wipe the slate clean]]"[[note]](ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} gets unceremoniously killed off; '''''[[WolverinePublicity WOLVERINE.]]''''')[[/note]], [[ContemplateOurNavels leaden dialogue]], and bad artwork. It did so much long-term damage to the Ultimate Universe that the line never really recovered, and is cited as a major reason for its eventual discontinuation. [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] did a review of the series in three parts ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGY9drl6IkI here]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWnUbMFWTM8 here]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWRaqW9Zxls here]]) and concluded that while it wasn't ''quite'' as bad as ''Countdown'', it certainly deserved the comparison. Comic Tropes also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1GhQRE2lTs took a look at it]] and called it the worst comic of the 2000s.

** '''''Sonic Live!''''' is considered to be not just one of Penders' worst works but one of the worst things to come out of Archie's 24 years with the license. The main story of the issue involves Sonic being ostensibly killed by Robotnik, but in actuality is transported to the inside of a TV set (supposedly an "in-between zone" between the gap of Mobius and Earth) and meeting two kids who are Sonic fans, both initially depicted with (poorly made, both in composition and quality - one of them is playing Sonic on ''a TV remote in front of a blank TV set'') photographs of Penders' son and niece. Sonic drags them into their TV screen so he can get back to Mobius, only to soon find themselves in another world where Robotnik schemes to take over the universe. The plot is a contrived ripoff of ''Film/LastActionHero'', right down to the issue's alternate title of "The Last Game Cartridge Hero", everyone is out of character[[note]](to set up the scene, the beginning has Robotnik captures all the Freedom Fighters but Sonic... and locks them up in cages, not even bothering to try and roboticize them despite already having them in his clutches, and Sonic inexplictably talks in TechnoBabble)[[/note]], numerous arcs are left unexplained and others wouldn't have made a difference if they were left out entirely, a lot of the art falls head-first into [[UnintentionalUncannyValley Uncanny Valley]][[note]](the cover art where a massive Sonic comes out of a TV screen, and the kids are drawn in a disturbingly realistic style for its first half)[[/note]], the excuse for why Sonic and co are known in the real world needs to be seen to be believed[[labelnote:Explanation]](one of the captuired humans [[HandWave hand waves]] that his inital sketched design was from the results of "transmissions received from a prototype device"... [[FridgeLogic which not only raises more questions]], but also implies that Naoto Ohshima, who actually created Sonic's design, was unoriginal)[[/labelnote]], and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking the story isn't even 48 pages long, as the cover deceptively advertises]] (but that might be a saving grace depending on who you ask). Beyond a very brief mention in the gallery of ''Sonic Mega Collection'', it's one of the very few Archie stories from the 90s never to have been reprinted, and for good reason. It was the subject of ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall''[='s=] [[https://youtu.be/XB0-AF_Ofaw 100th episode]], and later on, Sonic YouTuber "Game Apologist" would [[https://youtu.be/1k62sCd7_CM tear it a new one]] from his perspective as a lifelong Sonic fan.

* '''''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice''''' (nicknamed "Gay for Justice" by readers, thanks to some unfortunate lettering styles), a miniseries by James Robinson that featured [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]] trying to create a [[HeroesActVillainsHinder proactive]] Justice League (because that always ends well). The series features gratuitous gore and violence, characters being dismembered, horrible writing and gross characterization, and everyone constantly shouting "[[ForGreatJustice For justice!]]" Put it this way - when the author directly and explicitly apologizes to the fans over the quality of the work, ''twice'', '''before the series has finished''', then you know you're dealing with something '''awful'''. It was laughably "edgy", even killing off Lian Harper (a fan-favorite '''child''' character) at the eleventh hour, which was just one among many senseless deaths that didn't advance the storyline. Robinson found himself under all manner of fire for its release, even though he fought tooth-and-nail against the editors, who wanted much, much more in the pointless death and destruction departments. Not two years later, it and both of its followups were retconned in full. Linkara, one of the more calm and level-headed Channel Awesome personalities, broke character and growled with ''visceral'' rage during the murder of Lian.