Biggest disappointment in comics

[primenova]

What's the biggest disappointment you had while collecting comics - any publisher.

Ones I can name are

Getting US #5 looking at the amazing cover then looking inside & how awful is the art [this is getting the issue in 1990 when I used to Earthforce art]

Seeing Guido's art for AHM then reading the issue.

Nothing bad directed at Steve White here - but mainly aimed at Marvel UK for not providing the same colouring tools for him to use. But those backgrounds in 1987 - the sky swapping from yellow to pink & Steve having to use highly toxic colouring pens which I guess Gina Hart didn't use in 85/86 - but Marvel UK wouldn't have had the budget to use that colouring anymore.

[The Doctor]

To be honest, my biggest disappointment in comics is both that Zoids Monthly #1 never materialised and also that the Marvel UK Zoids strip has never been collected in a trade or via a legal digital option.

-Ralph

[Andy Turnbull]

The cancellation of Transformers both times were both quite severe disappointments to me.

Frank Miller's Holy Terror is probably the biggest disappointment reading wise that I've had in comics. It was so banal.

Andy

[Jim]

The resolution of the Cobra Civil War was a huge disappointment to me, especially as there was almost 20 years between me reading the Marvel UK holiday special and the conclusion. That said, over time it's grown on me.

[primenova]

Talking about Gijoe - the DDP cross over comics - but that is slightly mainly that 1. i don't like Gijoe. 2. the comics where all gijoe based with Transformers just happen to be there. But v2-4 got better.

[Philip Ayres]

X-Men c375 when they did the big reset ruining the ongoing storylines and effectively bringing back a team form 10 years previous

X-Factor art between Simonson & Potacio (save the Adams issues)

Liefield missing issues in New Mutants run

Quitely missing issue in Morrisons run - would love those to be redrawn by Quitely

The recent Alpha Flight limited series

The cancellation of Iron Fist

[blueshift]

Pretty much that period from about 2005-2008 (I think) in DC comics where it looked like it was getting awesome, then they ignored all the top creators and focussed on getting everything back to the Silver Age, lots and lots of rape and bloody death, and 'mind wipe' or 'evil' as a valid character motivation. Bizarre.

[Andy Turnbull]

Not really going away anytime soon given Geoff Johns is Chief Creative Officer at DC.

Andy

[Benn]

The Thanos thread has kickstarted my brain. I was not taken with the rewiting of Rocket Raccoon's backstory. At all.

[Philip Ayres]

Did we mention that the first Mantlo Hulk trade has Rocket Racoon's first appearance in?

[Andy Turnbull]

Wooo!

Andy

[Andy Turnbull]

I'd like to add modern comic colouring techniques to this.

Whatever the limitations of the earlier colouring techniques, I don't think modern stuff stands out as much anymore on the shelf. There are a few distinct voices in there and some very talented people as well, but comic colouring isn't bold anymore.

Andy

[The Doctor]

On a similar note, as US comics left newsstands, the art of cover design went in the toilet. It's not completely lost though: 2000AD/Megazine/Commando still know how to do it.

-Ralph

[primenova]

Some of the Ult Spiderman covers don't relate to the issue most of the time.

[Jim]

Marvel cover design seemed to particularly lose it in the early 2000s, lots of very generic covers - I have dim recollections of it being the result of a Jemas dictate.

That said, Daredevil has had some genuinely great covers lately - the gun barrels held aloft like a city scape with DD swinging over them was a brilliant image.