-I thought the Electric Superman status quo was really cool at the time it happened.

-I have continued collected a series over 3 years after I stopped reading it because I am a completist and I worry the moment I stop it will get good again.

-Steel (John Henry Irons) is my absolute favorite character. To the point that I collected the entire turd 2008 Infinity Inc series.

Great idea for a topic. More self-shame as I think of it.

I want to like Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four.

Anybody know where I can get a legal copy?

dranj, there are stores from A-2001 that I remember with total fondness, like the President Superman tale and Waid’s first Flash comic.

I have all and immensely enjoyed the Maximum Carnage storyline when it came out

Contrary to the idiom, there should be a full accounting for taste, with substantial penalties for anyone who disagrees with me.

I’m with ya on New Mutants. That was some good stuff. Most likely because Louise Simonson was involved.

I wasn’t that impressed with Sandman either except for a couple of brilliant issues.

I’m not that impressed by Alex Ross.

I bought New Mutants#100 & Ghost Rider#15 when they were new. A few months later, I bought the 2nd printings of each.

I have never even seen a copy of the Comics Journal.

I don’t like Dark Knight Returns.

The humour of DeMatteis & Giffen’s Justice League helped drive me from DC to Marvel at an impressionable age.

…

Kirby’s characters had similar faces but they were completely dissimilar in attitude and tone. His detail in all other aspects were fantastic, his emotions where impeccable and oh yes, HE DREW 22 PAGES IN 2 WEEKS, SOMETIMES 1.

If he were alive, had one book a week to do, was given Klaus Janson, and Dean White, we would murder each other every month. Every goddamn month.

…

I’ve never read any Sandman comics but I did finish and love Lucifer.

ive spent hundreds of dollars to complete the marvel legends trading card set (never bought a complete set from a con). i have at least doubles of everyone. i think i have 6 or 7 deadpools

i got into comics via clone saga also. i thought ben reilly’s costume was the coolest thing ever.

i don’t like y the last man or fables

i can’t read stan lee comics — or any silver age comics for that matter

i don’t think dark knight returns holds up at all. why does naked adult bruce wayne hug carrie kelly?

I have three of the original spider-man legends from toybiz. one to keep in the box and TWO to play with.

and uh ….. i um….i like GREG LAND. yea i said it!

Some of these are just so, so wrong.

1) I can honestly say that I’m not impressed with Moore, Bendis or Millar as writers.
2) I can’t stand Morrison as a creator.
3) I think that if Rob Liefield had a good inker, he’d be a fun artist. I loved his Hawk & Dove
4) I thought Doug Ramsey was pretty cool
5) I also liked Daredevil’s movie, as well as Elektra’s.
6) I don’t understand what’s so interesting about the Ultimate Universe.
7) I miss Byrne’s art on mainstream comics.
I really miss the Ultraverse & the original New Universe
9) I liked Secret Wars II
10) I never cared for Spawn

I have the complete run of the Superboy series based off the live action television show.

I liked Jeph Loeb’s Captain American run with that artist we all like to bash.

Daredevil is a good movie. You know it to be true.

@ Sketchpad

10) I never cared for Spawn

That´s like the only reasonable thing in you list! I’m trully shocked!

I bought the 1994 Solo marvel mini series thinking he was going to “the next big thing”. D’oh!

Okay, this is a sublime idea for a thread. I love the idea of us all getting together like a bunch of recovering addicts spilling our guts out about the heinous things we’ve done to get our ‘fix’… genius! It’s just what we need to rout out the ‘fanboys’ from the ‘Fanmen’…

C’mon who’s brave enough to be a man and admit to being imperfect!

Here’s my contribution…

1) I think both Alan Moore and Frank Miller are highly over-rated. As much as I think they are proficient storytellers I think they only seem good at playing in someone else’s sandbox (ditto for Grant Morrison and Marm Millar).

2) Some of the superhero movies are more appealing to me than vast swathes of titles, even the one’s the movie is itself based on. This is even after a solid 14-15yrs of comic reading, since I was 9! (TDK being the main one, love the movie…am not reading or even going to attempt to grapple with Batcontinuity)(Note: I do not think Burton’s Batman movies were any good, the Schumacher movies were not as dis-similar as people think, and were really only an extension of the sh*teness of Burton’s ham-fisted film-making “talent”.)

3) I hate all other comic book readers, apart from my friend Mark. I can’t stand meeting people who read comics for reasons related to some kind of pursuit of “outsider chic”. At my age, most people who read them irritate me.

4) I actually kinda liked ‘Superman Returns’ enough for it to make me get a crush on Kate Bosworth.

5) I think the X-titles were good when written by Clarement especially in the 90’s (and pre-2000), good again during Morrison’s run, and never again. Brubaker, Whedon, Ellis, and Fraction suck on these books!

6) I was deeply in love with Psylocke from the X-Men up until the age of about 15.

7) I miss the fact that pre-’No More Mutants’ it was possible to just invent a whole new arm of the franchise, whilst now it’s just about moving characters between books. I think this stunts creativity and results in Wolverine being everywhere to point where it defies logic that he would have enough free-time to even take a p*ss.

I used to get given £10 per week (British money to all you who do not know) to spend on lunches at school. I would have spent £5 by the Tues on cheap £1 packets of unwanted back issues and would then get by by hustling small change from my friends for food.

9) Since turning 16 I am quite successful with women at the same time as not needing to keep this hobby secret (This might seem a weird confession, but hey, I think this defies a stereotype!)

10) I think the phrase ‘Graphic Novel(/s)’ is a tool of class oppression.

Regards,

Luke

I think Watchmen is vastly over-rated. While the way Moore played with the form is genius, the plot is a huge letdown. The Smartest Man in the World’s grand scheme is essentially a protection racket? Really?

I actually think Elektra is a good movie. Maybe not a good Elektra movie but still a good movie.

I think that both the Ben Reilly and black Spider-Man costumes are better than the classic one.

I just don’t get the appeal of the Punisher.

I think $4.00 for a monthly book is too much and it may cause me to quit buying comic in the “floppy” format.

@ Lucas Siegel

Dude, that Chuck Austen confession really made me choke…

You are one brave person to admit to that one!!!

:-p

1)I have watched the “Legends of the Superheroes” specials several times and still love them after 30 years even though they are absolutely horrible.
2)I think Frank Miller is overrated.
3)I will read anything by Kirby, especially the stuff he wrote in the 70’s. That’s some crazy $#!%.
4)I have no sympathy for Alan Moore bitching about how Hollywood destroys his stuff.
5)My favorite Spider-Man artist will always be Ross Andru.
6)Some of my favorite Marvel stuff of all time is drawn by Sal Buscema and Herb Trimpe.
7)I’m a completist when it comes to Marvel & DC superheroes in films, TV and cartoons and have everything on DVD. Yes, even Catwoman.
8)I have never read Gaiman’s Sandman.
9)I think the original Crisis is still the best crossover event ever. Second best? “Acts of Vengeance”. There. I said it.
10)I want the Adam West “Batman” show on DVD. Now.
11)The X-Men bore me.
12)I have 2 longboxes full of every Image comic from their first 3 years of publication. I don’t know why.

- I think Geoff Johns is an overrated, not really talented writer and the fact that his name is on every second DC title really annoys me
- I loved reading “Identity Crisis” but now I blame it for the general current course of the DC Universe
- Don’t really care about Neil Gaiman
- in my opinion Ang Lee’s HULK was quite okay
- my first real encounter with Daredevil was the movie (my excuse: have been more into mainly DC back then)
- there was a time, when the only comic I picked up on a monthly basis was Lobo
- don’t really wanna see a Green Arrow or Wonder Woman or JLA live-action feature, because I’m worried I will hate it
- I’ve read The Maxx many, many years after the MTV Cartoon, when I finally encountered it actually had been a comic book series before
- Never really got into Spawn, although I tried out
- In my opinion guys like Kevin Smith or JMS should just concentrate on their own babies (which are always awesome) and not work in Mainstream Comics (where they often screw up)
- I really think the “Heavy Metal” franchise became a complete absurd/ridiculous/sad thing under Kevin Eastman, Eastman himself became kind of weird and the whole thing about how his wife Julie Strain is marketed as some kind of company mascot is absurd/ridiculous/sad too. Though, I have a strange, unexplainable affection to that stuff and I’m really kind of jealous he’s married to that Strain gal.

1-I read the Watchmen and hated it. I think the movie looks like a great take on the comic and I am sure Watchmen fans will LOVE it, but I wont go to see it.
2- I like Frank Miller’s work, always have, most of it. He tends to be like a movie actor, does the project that will keep him in the game, then does the project that he wants to do. I have no interest in THE SPIRIT so I wont be seeing that either.
3- I own the complete run of CRYSTAR.
4- I met Adam West and didn’t ask for his autograph.
5- I met Marc Singer and did ask for his autograph.
6- I bought MORTAL KOMBAT vs DC just so I could play BATMAN

I’ve fallen asleep during all three Lord of the rings movies, in the theater, at home… They bore the hell out of me.
I’ve never seen a single episdoe of 24, the X-Files (although I saw the first movie) Millenium. I’ve never seen E.T. all the way through, I just don’t have any interest.
As much as I like Ed Brubaker’s Captain America, I’m still angry they brought back Bucky Barnes. Then again I’m still pissed Jason Todd is back too.
I’ve stopped reading anything X-men related. I’ve had a love/hate relationship with the X-men for 30 years. I hated the series but loved stuff like”Children of the Atom” and Fall of the Mutants.
The worst decision Marvel made (amongst many) was giving Wolverine his memories back.

I like Secret Wars II.

Not LIKED. Like.

~ Ben

Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns are both highly overrated works, in my eyes. not that either is BAD mind you, just vastly overrated.

Also, while I can see why we make fun of much of what was published in the ’90s, that IS the era that got me into comics and thus it holds a special place in my heart.

I’ve seen some things on this thread that have made made gasp in disbelief and others that have made me think ‘oh thank god someone else thinks this!’ i like this thread. we should all be able to admit these things free of ridicule, or at least anything beyond your general friendly ribbing.

XANTHISS Says:
“I own the complete run of CRYSTAR.”

I’m in the same boat, dude. I thought that comic was pretty good.

This topic it too funny!

1) My mom bought me my first two comics; Atari Force #15 and Spanner’s Galaxy #3. Wish I still had them.

2) I now collect comics as an alternative to my 401(k); As I just spent $1100 on Silver Age Spider-Man last night on eBay.

3) I have a wicked eBay habit of buying Silver Age back issues to which I am worried about.

4) I to, buy current issues to which I have not yet read (I have about a long box of issues to read still.

5) I was a huge Valiant fan; so huge I collected EVERY FRICKIN’ TITLE that came out - the continuity of the universe was just too cool. Everything tied together.

6) I ended up TOSSING my entire Valiant Collection in the dumpster after the comic crash of the mid 90’s.

7) I love Alan Daivis’ artwork, I also despise Rob Liefelds work.

I miss Todd McFarlane on Spider-Man (or ASM for that matter.)

9) I never liked Kirby’s work very much in the beginning, but the more Silver/Golden Age stuff I pick up with his artwork the more it grows on me.

10) Sergio Argones is the true comic master. along with Groo and Cheese Dip.

Late,

Kevin

1) Bart Allen is probably my all-time favourite DC character, but I only want to see him resurrected if it’s as Impulse. I think he’s been entirely misused since they made him become Kid Flash.

2) Geoff Johns - from everything I hear, he’s a really nice guy and a good writer, but he’s almost single-handedly driven me away from DC Comics with countless nostalgia-driven events and storylines. Sorry, but Hal Jordan and Barry Allen are boring, and I feel the current direction DC’s taking has only made the company all the more dependent on a shrinking market of long-time readers instead of doing something fresh to draw new readers in.

3) I still love Ben Reilly, and to this day believe he’s not “really” dead, somehow.

4) I got into Spider-Man and became a huge fan only knowing him being married to Mary Jane, but I couldn’t care less if they remain married or not. I’ve avoided “Brand New Day” not because their marriage was undone, but because of how they essentially wrote MJ out of the book.

5) Aunt May and Harry Osborn’s “death issues” in the ’90s were excellent stories and terrific send-offs for their characters, but I’m really glad they were both brought back to life.

6) “X-Men in Space” has always been a stupid idea. Always.

7) After Grant Morrison’s “New X-Men”, I find it hard to get into any version of the X-Men that has them wearing spandex costumes. But I’ve always felt Wolverine in yellow was a hideous design choice.

The only superhero comic I still read is “Ultimate Spider-Man”, and even with that I’m pretty far behind. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Hellboy” and “Usagi Yojimbo” are what keep me reading comics right now. Go Dark Horse!

1.) I love the Electric Superman stuff and wish that they would have kept his powers as such, and I enjoyed the Superman Blue/Red.

2.) Loved Jeph Loeb’s run on Captain America and was sad when James Robinson replaced him.

3.) I loved Bruce Jones’ run on Nightwing and wish it would have continued.

4.) While we’re on the same subject of Nightwing, I enjoyed Devin Grayson’s run on it too from when I started reading it. (which was during War Games)

5.) Greg Land is an awesome artist.

I actually liked Rob Liefeld’s Awesome Comics line.

I hate Jeph Loeb with an immense passion for what he’s done to the Ultimate line.

I hate Warren Ellis’ Marvel Comics work. Really, he should never touch existing characters unless they’re his own.

- I’ve read the whole Invisibles series by Morisson several times and I still have NO IDEA what the hell it was about. It makes me feel stupid. And I helped save it on that Thanksgiving day…

- As a teenager I was so ashamed of my love for superhero comics that I used to hide them behind my tee-shirt when I left the store. Now that I’m a librarian, I harass people until they agree to leave with The Ultimates or Hellboy. I like to think it improves my karma.

I hate Greg Land with the passion of a million suns
I think Rob Liefeld gets alot of crap , but as bad as he may be to some, he’s a hero to others.
The suck list: Joe Mad, ruined Ultimates for me. Michael Turner, god rest his sole but was a horrible artist.Tim Slae… Just don’t get it. Jack Kirby, Same thing.Mac rayboy was 10 times the artist Kirby was.

1: I own two times Sandman Mystery Theatre in single issues out of pure greed. Though still like Guy Davis’ artwork a lot!
2. Frank Miller ‘ DK2 was in my opinion absolutely horrible. Sin City and 300 etc. Crap crap crap.
3: I own not only the first half but also the latter half of Valiant/Acclaim Comics. Out of investment opportunity for € 0.20 cts!
4: I sold a run of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for way too much money.
5: I think Hellboy is overrated since Emperor Worm and Mignola should be punished for betraying a wonderfull creation.
6: I thought Fantastic four movie one and two were not bad at all in their genre.
7: Is loving Sergio Aragones’ Groo and Paul Grist’s Jack Staff a sin?
8:Todd mcFarlanes artworks consists of drawing tricks strung together in a very bad way.
9: Since years I never read nor DC nor Marvel anymore….
10: Transmetropolitan an League of Extraordinary Gentrelemen 3 were the biggest letdowns in my comic loving live.

I always thought that Gwen Stacy should have lived—and eventally married Peter Parker.

Aunt May should have stayed dead TWO deaths ago.

Ben Reilly should have been the real Spidey

Superman should be allowed to date other woman. LOTS of other woman. He should not be a hick boy scout. Never was.

i hate jean grey. i hate the pheonix. i hate the on-again/off-again love triangle with scott summers and logan. i hate “i love you logan but i can’t do this to scott because i love scott.” i hate “i died!” “i’m alive!” “i died again.” “what do you mean you got remarried because i died- didn’t you know i’d be reincarnated?”

STAY DEAD JEAN GREY for the love of my own personal sanity.

i pray that the little girl running around with cable is NOT jean grey. dammit.

i’m a marvel whore but i hate claremont.

i owned “Witches” - the 2004 Marvel mini series. occult meets cheesecake. i thought it was ok. seriously- i didnt hate it- i feel i probably should have. surely thats enough for a few hail mary’s and some our fathers.

i loved the Generation X tv series from 1996. yes. i know.

‘m dropping Spider-man, Ms. Marvel, Astonishing X-Men, and Punisher MAX to make room for all 4 avengers books
I’ve never liked Jean Grey with the exception of the movies
I actually enjoyed Batman: War Games
Superman Prime is currently my 2nd favorite DC character
All Star Batman is my favorite
All Star Batman and Robin The Boy Wonder might be the greatest comic series I’ve ever read
I enjoy Frank Miller’s Daredevil more then Batman: Year One and Dark Knight Returns
I bought Dark Knight Returns almost 4 months ago and have only gotten through half of it
Chuck Austen’s X-Men run were the 1st X-books I ever read and I still kind of like it
As much as I love Booster Gold and Blue Beetle together I was relieved Johns didn’t keep Ted Kord alive
I actually had no idea Jason Todd was the Red Hood until he took off the helmet before he beat up the Joker
About a year ago I picked up some old Bat titles during Knightquest and I thoroughly enjoyed them
I was more upset about the death of Ralph Dibney then the death of any other comic character in the history of comics

–Lucas Siegel Says: “I enjoyed the vast majority of Chuck Austen’s runs on Uncanny X-Men and X-Men.”

Come tell him; he works evenings at the McDonald’s near my home.

1. I will read anything with Conan in it
2. More generally, I will read anything with a single, bad-ass hero facing impossible odds (i.e. the original Lone Wolf and Cub, Ennis’s MAX punisher); on the other hand, I despise comics featuring teams of god-people going on space opera adventures (i.e. JLA, the Authority, later Claremont’s X-Men where there were no limits on how powers could be applied: “Jubilee, make a bunch of firecrackers in his bloodstream to destroy the cancer cells!”)
3. As a child, I used to run around on all fours and jump on furniture like Beast from X-Men
4. I like Bendis, although I don’t want to; his dialogue is a portmanteau of “grating” and “gripping”
5. I still can’t help but think that a character’s introduction/death/life-change is a major event, even though I know it will be retconned two years later
6. I still go out of my way to watch Heroes, even though it’s like eating broken glass

@ Russ Burlingame
“10. As a guilty white liberal, I talk about the need for more diversity in comics. As a fan, it’s very difficult to get me to read a book about a character who doesn’t look like me. I feel vaguely guilty about this, but it doesn’t change how I spend my money.”

Man, I’m so glad that a white guy finally admitted that because I know you’re not the only one. I was SO glad in fact, it (along with all of the other posts in this thread) inspired to make my first ever post on Newsarama.
Now on with the list:
- I hate it when people say that John Rogers wrote the first 25 issues of Blue Beetle. He wrote 23 issues, two were fill-ins by other writers.
- While on the subject of Blue Beetle, I think people who complained about the all Spanish issue were being racist.
- Young Justice is my favorite comic series of all time and I would die for some Hardcovers.
- I stopped buying Marvel Comics when they killed Captain America because I was so upset, despite the fact that I’ve never collected Captain America comic books and probably never will.
- I hate Wolverine and will never forgive Jean Grey for cheating on Cyclops.
- 50% of my love for Kyle Rayner comes from the fact that he is half-hispanic and I remind people of this every chance I get. (Like now for instance)
- I could care less if Greg Land swipes for his artwork. Not that I particularly like his work, I could just care less.
- I liked Miller’s The Dark Knight Strikes Back. The first half anyway.
- I find something disturbing about the picture of fully grown Mister Mind in 52. I’m not sure what it is, but something just gives me the heeby-jeebies.
- I liked Superman Returns and I thought Brandon Routh was an excellent Clark Kent and Superman. I also liked Daredevil.
- My favorite scene in The Dark Knight, is when Rachel gets blown up because I hate that character with a passion.

I loved DC’s Thriller comic from the 80’s. I have at least 3 sets of the series. I thought it was wonderful up to the point when Flemming and Von Eden left the book and it ran off the rails.
At one time DC had announced a Salvo Mini series that I was really looking forward to.

I feel Warren Ellis’ “Ruins” Is the best super-hero black comedy ever.

I want to see that sequel to the “Rawhide Kid” Max Mini, from a few years ago.

More on line with what I believe this thread was about:

1) I got into comics via Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew and love them to this day.
2) Nova Volume 1 #11 is probably my favorite comic book. I’ve read it so many times my original copy pretty much disintegrated in my hands.
3) I too once loved McFarlane’s Spider-Man and Liefeld’s New Mutants.
4) I think Nick Fury is one of the most ill-defined, schizophrenic, terrible characters in all of comics.
5) Ditto for Namor.

“- I never liked Golden or Silver Age books. I grew up in the 90’s, I never saw the point in liking old comics with shitty writing and shitty art from decades before I was born.”

Yes, when there was plenty of contemporary crap to go around.

I once read that Greg Land’s originals were copies of US weekly. After reading a trade of Ultimate FF, I realized, it’s all true!

I liked the Ghost Rider movie if only for the Knight’s of Prosperity guy sidekick’s toss-off death.