Biggest blunders & missed opportunities in Comic History?

Originally posted by Digi
JSA kinda takes care of itself, though, even before Johns' run. I think the writers have too much fear and/or respect for a lot of the golden oldies to put their own personal spin on things (i.e. f*ck it up)

But yeah, any other book that loses Johns is screwed.

Johns wrote pretty much the entire last series, debuting on issue 3, and writing all but a few filler issues until 87, then started off the new one.

Originally posted by Vally Doosh
Hopefully they let Johns off Green Lantern.

Originally posted by Juntai
why would you wish that?

cos he's tired of nobody wanking kyle. or hal being wanked over kyle.

dirtier than i'd intended, tbh...

Oh right! Kyle...another blunder and travesty!

Just like Damian Wayne...blah!

i guess i have to wait til the end to withhold judgment but for right now im thinking the whole krptonian debacle thats ongoing in DC at this moment.....sure for all intents and purposes history have shown us that there isnt any overt attack on kryptonians that dont involve obsessive characters like luthor, waller and lois lane's dada but to have the kryptonians be complete assholes in the meantime doesnt solicit sympathy from me any...they are advanced enuff to just say screw it, and lift the entire city out of orbit and build a new krypton or at th e very least kandor somewhere else, but noooooooo! even b4 the ***** move that was pullled on them by the P.T.Be they were planning to subjugate humanity

Originally posted by Galan007
Isn't there some DC vs. Mortal Kombat video game? srsly

=

....ouch.

Originally posted by Juntai
why would you wish that?

If Dan Didio screws over Final Crisis by making Grant rewrite the ending, it will top everything on the last two pages. Especially because Grant might ditch DC over it. 👇 uhuh

Recent ones;

Countdown
Letting Metzler relaunch JLA
Launching ; Flash Fastest man Alive with a shit team
Trying to make Sentry Marvels Thor
The ongoing Supergirl serries
The return of Suicide Squad (When they already had a contempoary version in the Secret Six)
Killing Connor Kent
Not Keeping Justice League Elite book
D.C. Pissing off Rucka
Marvel letting go of Grant Morisson
Not letting Mark Millar write Superman
Not letting Millar and Grant Morisson write Superman 2000
The New World War 3 (D.C.)
Bringingback Hal Jordan
Pissing off Mark Waid
Every Single issue of the Outsiders, when the superior Justice League Elite existed
Failing to make Checkmate popular
Relagating Kyle Rynar to the GLC bench
Bringing back Jason Todd after Hush
Not making Jason Todd Hush
The entire Bendis Run on New Avengers
****ing the Superior Ultimate universe out of pure greed.
Not making Nor Vahr a prominent character sooner.
Letting anyone near Ares after Oeming.
Not bringing back Thor sooner.
Killing Wally, bringing him back only to relagate him into obscurity
Allowing Geoff Johns off the Flash
Cancelling Mark Waids Legion
The Wonder Woman relaunch
Not letting Gail Simone write Captain Marvel
Making Superman Birthright the officail origin for about a month.
The Green Lantern Emotional spectrum
Ignoring everything the Grant Morisson brought to the X men

Older Ones;
Our World at War
Zero Hour
Not Making the original World War three the epic crossover it should have been.
Making Hal Jordan kill the enitre Lantern Corp single handidly
Killing Superman
Relagating the Eternals into obscurity.
Marvel creating more Skyfather level beings than there are Superheroes.
Creating Thanos
Not allowing Alan Moore to do his version of the Original Crisis
Destroying the D.C. multiverse instead of revamping it to make sense.
Not giving Hypertime a chance to work
Killing Superman again
Letting Jeph Loeb any where near a mainstrem Superman storyline
Not giving Joe Kelly a lifetime contract to write Superman
Not letting Grant Morisson write the New Gods sooner.
D.C. not keeping Mark Millar.

The biggest one ever; D.C. pissing off Alan Moore

Originally posted by Cartesian Doubt
Recent ones;

Countdown
Letting Metzler relaunch JLA
Launching ; Flash Fastest man Alive with a shit team
Trying to make Sentry Marvels Thor
The ongoing Supergirl serries
The return of Suicide Squad (When they already had a contempoary version in the Secret Six)
Killing Connor Kent
Not Keeping Justice League Elite book
D.C. Pissing off Rucka
Marvel letting go of Grant Morisson
Not letting Mark Millar write Superman
Not letting Millar and Grant Morisson write Superman 2000
The New World War 3 (D.C.)
Bringingback Hal Jordan
Pissing off Mark Waid
Every Single issue of the Outsiders, when the superior Justice League Elite existed
Failing to make Checkmate popular
Relagating Kyle Rynar to the GLC bench
Bringing back Jason Todd after Hush
Not making Jason Todd Hush
The entire Bendis Run on New Avengers
****ing the Superior Ultimate universe out of pure greed.
Not making Nor Vahr a prominent character sooner.
Letting anyone near Ares after Oeming.
Not bringing back Thor sooner.
Killing Wally, bringing him back only to relagate him into obscurity
Allowing Geoff Johns off the Flash
Cancelling Mark Waids Legion
The Wonder Woman relaunch
Not letting Gail Simone write Captain Marvel
Making Superman Birthright the officail origin for about a month.
The Green Lantern Emotional spectrum
Ignoring everything the Grant Morisson brought to the X men

Older Ones;
Our World at War
Zero Hour
Not Making the original World War three the epic crossover it should have been.
Making Hal Jordan kill the enitre Lantern Corp single handidly
Killing Superman
Relagating the Eternals into obscurity.
Marvel creating more Skyfather level beings than there are Superheroes.
Creating Thanos
Not allowing Alan Moore to do his version of the Original Crisis
Destroying the D.C. multiverse instead of revamping it to make sense.
Not giving Hypertime a chance to work
Killing Superman again
Letting Jeph Loeb any where near a mainstrem Superman storyline
Not giving Joe Kelly a lifetime contract to write Superman
Not letting Grant Morisson write the New Gods sooner.
D.C. not keeping Mark Millar.

The biggest one ever; D.C. pissing off Alan Moore

Why didn't you just say half of everything Marvel and Dc have done? Woulda saved you a lot of typing to type in the things you liked from both companies. 😛

Clone Saga.
OMD.
Supes Returns aka The weightlifting movie
Wolverine 3
Elektra
Catwoman
Superman pulling off stupid feats like being a tank while being poisoned by Kryp. AND having a heart attack
Wolvie surviving a nuke and somehow stabbing Spidey during a training session & taking hits from Namor w/out flying.
DC wanking their holy trinity @the expense of everybody & everything else(mainly the story)
Having replacable Flashes & GLs, but still the same Supes, Bats & WW.
T-VO & anytime Supes looks superior to MM or Cap. Marvel
Kevin Smith taking time off from writing a great Spidey series: "The Evil That Men Do" to make...........Jersey Girl 😐
Thor losing to Supes in JLA/Avengers.
Batman not getting owned by Cap in the same series, which led some fanboys to say stupid shit like, "Batman was lying" 😐
Deathstroke looking formidable as hell against a team full of metas & then being incompetent against Batman.
Robin (Tim Drake) being alive.
J.Stewart not being as cool as he is on JLU.
Batman still being irresponsible enough to have lil' kids fight grown men w/guns.
Hal being alive.(Only cool when he's punching Bats in the face).
Marvel not promoting either Punisher movie enough.
Letting Rob Liefield draw anything.
B.Panther's mask in the Ultimate Avengers movie.
No U.S.(Udon) made books for the Capcom vs. SNK series.
Taskmaster wearing his old costume.
The Iron Spidey Suit.
Whoring Spidey out & giving him organics so he could be more like the movie.
Making Beast look so stupid.
Letting F.Quietly draw anything.
DC not letting Marvel handle the Batman/Daredevil book.
Batman Beyond being canceled
MTV showing the Spidey episodes out of order 😠

Originally posted by willRules
Why didn't you just say half of everything Marvel and Dc have done? Woulda saved you a lot of typing to type in the things you liked from both companies. 😛

But there are loads of things the companies have done that have been great. But some of the blunders mentioned are serious **** ups.

Originally posted by I-Drop

& anytime Supes looks superior to MM or Cap. Marvel

Thor losing to Supes in JLA/Avengers.
Batman not getting owned by Cap in the same series, which led some fanboys to say stupid shit like, "Batman was lying" 😐
Deathstroke looking formidable as hell against a team full of metas & then being incompetent against Batman.
Robin (Tim Drake) being alive.

Batman still being irresponsible enough to have lil' kids fight grown men w/guns.

Marvel not promoting either Punisher movie enough.

Taskmaster wearing his old costume.

Making Beast look so stupid.
Letting F.Quietly draw anything.

On the whole I agree, except for the following examples above.

First time I've ever heard anyone cry about Zero Hour.

Originally posted by Cartesian Doubt
Recent ones;

Countdown
Letting Metzler relaunch JLA
Launching ; Flash Fastest man Alive with a shit team
Trying to make Sentry Marvels Thor
The ongoing Supergirl serries
The return of Suicide Squad (When they already had a contempoary version in the Secret Six)
Killing Connor Kent
Not Keeping Justice League Elite book
D.C. Pissing off Rucka
Marvel letting go of Grant Morisson
Not letting Mark Millar write Superman
Not letting Millar and Grant Morisson write Superman 2000
The New World War 3 (D.C.)
Bringingback Hal Jordan
Pissing off Mark Waid
Every Single issue of the Outsiders, when the superior Justice League Elite existed
Failing to make Checkmate popular
Relagating Kyle Rynar to the GLC bench
Bringing back Jason Todd after Hush
Not making Jason Todd Hush
The entire Bendis Run on New Avengers
****ing the Superior Ultimate universe out of pure greed.
Not making Nor Vahr a prominent character sooner.
Letting anyone near Ares after Oeming.
Not bringing back Thor sooner.
Killing Wally, bringing him back only to relagate him into obscurity
Allowing Geoff Johns off the Flash
Cancelling Mark Waids Legion
The Wonder Woman relaunch
Not letting Gail Simone write Captain Marvel
Making Superman Birthright the officail origin for about a month.
The Green Lantern Emotional spectrum
Ignoring everything the Grant Morisson brought to the X men

Older Ones;
Our World at War
Zero Hour
Not Making the original World War three the epic crossover it should have been.
Making Hal Jordan kill the enitre Lantern Corp single handidly
Killing Superman
Relagating the Eternals into obscurity.
Marvel creating more Skyfather level beings than there are Superheroes.
Creating Thanos
Not allowing Alan Moore to do his version of the Original Crisis
Destroying the D.C. multiverse instead of revamping it to make sense.
Not giving Hypertime a chance to work
Killing Superman again
Letting Jeph Loeb any where near a mainstrem Superman storyline
Not giving Joe Kelly a lifetime contract to write Superman
Not letting Grant Morisson write the New Gods sooner.
D.C. not keeping Mark Millar.

The biggest one ever; D.C. pissing off Alan Moore

😑 Man...

...just go out on a date, already.

I'm going to assume that was a joke

We don't have to rag on him simply because he put some thought into his post 😄

Originally posted by Kris Blaze
First time I've ever heard anyone cry about Zero Hour.

Mate i've heard a lot of people moan about it. Its Just a very boring storyline. I mean people complain about how bad crossovers such as secret Invasion and Civil War, but Zero hour is on a whole new level of mediocrity. Whatever happened to Dan Jurgens ? He was once a quite good writer ?

Originally posted by Juntai
By 'before Johns run", do you mean the 8 issue mini from Robinson? Because JSA couldn't carry a title until Johns came along.

Johns wrote pretty much the entire last series, debuting on issue 3, and writing all but a few filler issues until 87, then started off the new one.

Did he? I didn't think he had been on that long.

Originally posted by Digi
Did he? I didn't think he had been on that long.

yup. the man's a machine.

Originally posted by Kris Blaze
I'm going to assume that was a joke

We don't have to rag on him simply because he put some thought into his post 😄

Yeah i thought it was a little harsh as well. Especially coming from someone with this many posts

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