What's the most horrible comic you've had to buy in order to complete a set? 4 4

[Ken Aldred]

My most disliked Swamp Thing comic ever.

Terrible cover, and one of the most pretentious comic stories I've ever read.  For me, the worst thing Alan Moore has ever written, made even more unreadable by trippy artwork.

Absolute, utter bollocks.

[Get Marwood & I]

1 minute ago, Ken Aldred said:

My most disliked Swamp Thing comic ever.

Terrible cover, and one of the most pretentious comic stories I've ever read.  For me, the worst thing Alan Moore has ever written, made even more unreadable by trippy artwork.

Absolute, utter bollocks.

So you're saying you don't mind it Ken?

[KirbyJack]

1 minute ago, Ken Aldred said:

My most disliked Swamp Thing comic ever.

Terrible cover, and one of the most pretentious comic stories I've ever read.  For me, the worst thing Alan Moore has ever written, made even more unreadable by trippy artwork.

Absolute, utter bollocks.

If you’d like to further explore pretentious comics, may I suggest Justice League of America 89?

[Ken Aldred]

1 minute ago, Get Marwood & I said:

So you're saying you don't mind it Ken?

I'm not a fan.

The 'special price' of 75c was also a rip-off.  It should've been priced at least 75c cheaper.

[Jasonmorris1000000]

This one's way more pretentious than Swampy #60.  When it first came out, my older sister saw it and started reading out loud from it.  She made fun of me unmercifully for having it.

6 minutes ago, Ken Aldred said:

My most disliked Swamp Thing comic ever.

Terrible cover, and one of the most pretentious comic stories I've ever read.  For me, the worst thing Alan Moore has ever written, made even more unreadable by trippy artwork.

Absolute, utter bollocks.

 

[Savoyard23]

This is a good topic.

There were some uninspiring later issues of Marvel Two-In-One to slog through, but at least they were cheap.

[Ken Aldred]

5 minutes ago, KirbyJack said:

If you’d like to further explore pretentious comics, may I suggest Justice League of America 89?

Original series? I'll have a look.

[Jasonmorris1000000]

9 minutes ago, KirbyJack said:

If you’d like to further explore pretentious comics, may I suggest Justice League of America 89?

What's the story on this one?  Anyone got a scan?

[BigLeagueCHEW]

Anything Liefeld? 

 

[Artboy99]

26 minutes ago, KirbyJack said:

Bad covers are one thing, but you can always just not look at it. I’m a reader, and the worst offenders for me are horrible stories. 
I used to have a complete run of Conan. Most were entertaining reads, but towards the end of the run, they had Conan saying and doing things he would never do. The art was the worst kind of trend-following garbage, and getting to the last page was outright work.

So I nominate the end of the Conan run.

 

the only Conan comics I have not read are the end of the run: like 265 to 275 as i didnt get them until recently. Generally i love reading Conan so your answer is surprising. I guess i will have to read them to see for myself...

[Jasonmorris1000000]

Before you judge me too harshly for owning these, I bought them because Alan Moore wrote them OK.  I didn't buy it for the art.  Is a chest like that even humanly possible?

[porcupine48]

1 minute ago, Jasonmorris1000000 said:

Before you judge me too harshly for owning these, I bought them because Alan Moore wrote them OK.  I didn't buy it for the art.  Is a chest like that even humanly possible?

You have been judged

[Get Marwood & I]

 

 

 

 

 

[Jasonmorris1000000]

I'm pretty sure Parabellum and nepatkm have 9.8 graded copies of 99% of every Punisher appearance ever published.  I should see if they have the Punisher vs. Archie and The Punisher meets Emenem.

Edited January 5, 2021 by Jasonmorris1000000

[catman76]

1 hour ago, Scrooge said:

My March 1952 set has a couple of clunkers but none worse than this one -

A comic full of Ken Hultgren and Dan Gordon artwork is a clunker? This is great stuff. The original poster too calling a Venus comic with great art a clunker too. Not the endless drek of the last 30 years but these great comics? WTF? 

[Yorick]

23 minutes ago, Jasonmorris1000000 said:

Is a chest like that even humanly possible?

At least it distracts from the lacking perspective of those background buildings....

[KirbyJack]

33 minutes ago, Artboy99 said:

the only Conan comics I have not read are the end of the run: like 265 to 275 as i didnt get them until recently. Generally i love reading Conan so your answer is surprising. I guess i will have to read them to see for myself...

Generally, I love reading Conan as well. Like I said, some were better than others, but almost all were worth one’s time. 
That changed at the end of the run.

[KirbyJack]

2 minutes ago, Yorick said:

At least it distracts from the lacking perspective of those background buildings....

Badrock: City Without Depth

[Jasonmorris1000000]

7 minutes ago, catman76 said:

A comic full of Ken Hultgren and Dan Gordon artwork is a clunker? This is great stuff. The original poster too calling a Venus comic with great art a clunker too. Not the endless drek of the last 30 years but these great comics? WTF? 

I know what you're saying.  I sort of digressed in this thread.  My original point was that $300 is a lot of money to spend on a comic that doesn't appeal to you on any level other than it fits into a set.  As for all the cruddy 80's, 90's, and 2000's stuff in my closet:  there's so much of it that it technically adds up to maybe one or two cool golden or silver age comics but no one is going to buy it at its cover price.  Because most of it is awful.

[jimbo_7071]

This question is the reason why I never build runs! I only collect GA, and pretty much everything is expensive, so building a run would mean spending a lot of money on covers I don't like.