Worst of 2006: Mini-series
Last year saw the comics industry shift a serious amount of focus back to mini-series. With so many stories to choose from, you know some had to suck pretty serious. Here’s our choices for the dregs.
Lame New World
“Pretty much all the stuff other than Shazam that came out of Brave New World has sucked a big chubby. I didn’t bother with most of it, but I stuck through three or four issues of OMAC and Martian Manhunter before I realized how worthless they were. It taught me a valuable lesson, though. Check out who’s writing something before buying it. Prior to that, I’d always just bought the issues featuring my favorite characters. I’m kind of like a child in that sense. A tall, drunk child.”
— Doom DeLuise
Cop: Out, issues 1-6
“I’m momentarily without my list of votes for this best/worst list, and I can’t remember what I voted for in this category. What can I say? I’m dumb. When I find the list, I’ll post my vote.”
— Jean-Claude Van Doom
X-Men: The End
“X-Men: The End went from semi-interesting to tepid and random. It tried too much and just got boring.”
— Doominator
Young Avengers/Runaways
“I love Runaways. I love Young Avengers. I also love ketchup and apple sauce, but you don’t see me mixing them together. Maybe that’s sort of what happened here. Or maybe the creative team on this mini-series just isn’t nearly as good as the creative teams on the individual series. Absolutely nothing of substance happened in this mini-series. Near as I can tell, it only existed to bilk me out of $12. Thanks a million, Marvel!”
— Fin Fang Doom
My notes were fairly useless. Is Tales of the Unexpected a mini? Because that’s what I wrote down. Aside from that, I suppose it’s a tie between Martian Manhunter (a steady downhill ride) and OMAC (which was too awful for me to do more than flip through).
Colossus Bloodline should be up there… it was just… terrible.
Wasn’t there an Apocalypse/Dracula series that was terrible too?
I didn’t know there was such a miniseries, but I can’t imagine how that could have been bad!
I was probably not a good panelist on this topic (which is why I apparently didn’t choose something), because I tend to not take chances on mini-series. If I start one, I feel obligated to finish it, so I really only give it a shot if I feel like it’s a can’t-miss.