TELLE writes:so Fatman transforms into flying saucer (btw, how cool is that?).
Umm...not at all?
What about the millions of other transforming heroes --Marvels's 80s Capt. Marvel has to transform into light to fly, for instance, and then there were those transforming robots --what were they called?
Well, they're all lousy. Is that what you meant? 80s Captain Marvel was lousy, TV's "Automan" was lousy, the "TurboTeen" cartoon was lousy...the list goes on.
I kind of liked "Transformers"...not the vehicle version but the one where the robots turned into animals as a means of coping with the environment of a planet they crash-landed on. But even when they looked like animals, they were still robots, with metal parts beneath. Flesh and blood changing to steel, rubber and gears is a bit much for me. Logically if Turbo Teen ever lost a tire, then when he became a human again he should've been missing a hand or foot.
Wow, I can't believe I said "Turbo Teen" and "logically" in the same sentence.
3-d man has tons of potential and fits into that 70s "Defenders"-type hero mold of also-rans (Nova, Omega) that Julian was mentioning in another thread.
C'mon, 3-D main is a 6th-tier character at best. He's like one of those superheroes invented for comics made to promote Radio Shack products or Tandy computers. Hey kids, it's Duncan Yo-Yo Man!
The whole point seems to have been that he was "typically 1950s." I'm guessing because "Happy Days" and "Grease" were big at the time (Hello, Jack? It's the 70s now!). No doubt his fellow heroes were Hula-Hoop Girl, Ducktail Lad, the Beatnik and Baron Bryl-Cream.
Worst superhero comics ever published? Secret Wars II? The crappy 3rd string JLA with Vixen and Vibe? Most of Image? Really, a fish in the barrel question.
I think every title that's been around for more than a few years has had at least one lousy run, and I tend to view mini-series like Secret Wars as "storylines" rather than seperate entities unto themselves. That is to say, SWII may have been a lousy idea, but it used okay to great characters, whereas "Fatman" is bad from the ground up.
If we ARE to include Secret War-like books, however, virtually every crossover title ever done is a contender for me, especially DC's: Armageddon, Millenium, Bloodlines, Invasion, War of the Gods and Zero Hour, off the top of my spleen.
JulianPerez writes:
The XFL
Al-Queda
Two nefarious points in the Axis of Evil.
Far be it for me to interfere with dissing Gerry Conway, but...
Did any Image comics have a book about a fat man that became a flying saucer? No! Thus, Fatman > Image.
No, but if Fatman had been popular, you can bet Image would have ripped him off. Image comics are definitely in a class by themselves when it comes to "worsts"; worst writing, worst art, worst lapse of ethics, worst case of hype exceeding ability. But the
concepts were often fine. And why not? The concepts were "Superman", "The X-Men," "the Spectre" and so on...
In fact, the only books the Image crowd never swiped from (but should have) were books on human anatomy.
TELLE writes:Just because they never caught on doesn't mean they are bad ideas
Exactly. Just like the XFL. Not to mention Diet Coke, the Edsel, Klinton Spilsbury as the Lone Ranger, Don Johnson albums and Cousin Oliver on the Brady Bunch.
Or, he said, returning to the theme of the thread, this comic:
As ably chronicled here:
http://blogzarro.com/?p=154
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