Most Overrated of 2006: Series
I just remembered I’m supposed to be doing some sort of a pithy opening to these things. Aw hell, screw it! On to the picks!
Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.
“Nextwave is my choice, though Civil War is a close second. I can’t fathom why fanboys keep coming back to Ellis’ joke with himself. Too bad it nearly escaped the gallows.”
-Jean-Claude Van Doom
Cop Out?
“I don’t think anything has a chance to be overrated anymore, because in the big picture, not enough comics geeks have the balls to stick with a title once they catch wind that it’s not cool anymore. It’s way cooler to jump all over something as soon as it gets accepted by the other kids at the comic store.”
-Jim Doom
Batman
“I find it hard to believe that anyone thinks Batman is a better book than Detective Comics, yet somehow, month in and month out, Batman dominates ‘Tec in the sales charts. Whichever Kubert draws the book is really, really bad, and Grant Morrison isn’t much better. And whoever is doing the fill-in arc shouldn’t quit his day job, unless his day job is comics.”
-Fin Fang Doom