Comics You Never Want to Read

[Timothy Hunter]

I would say that I'm a completist. I want to consume as much media as possible. However, there are just some pieces of entertainment that I never want to cross paths with. In comics I have a few:
Elfquest
Crossed
Post-Zero Hour Legion of Superheroes

Does anyone else have specific comic series they go out of their way to avoid?

[MouserGrey]

X-Men. Unless it's Kurt. Even then.

[Personamanx]

I've read enough Garth Ennis to know that his work has no value for me. I generally avoid any comic with his name attached, pages slip through of course but they don't often make me re-think my stance.

I've gone my entire life without reading a comic with Spawn in it, and I have no plans to change it.

[Spike-X]

I dunno. I'm too busy trying to keep up with all the comics I do enjoy reading to worry about the rest.

[Kirby101]

Most of the comics I don't buy, I don't want to read. Occasionally I find out I do want to read them and buy the TPB.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I dropped ALL the X-books just before the turn of the century after the franchise became a hideously bloated mess. I haven't missed them one iota and have ZERO intention of ever going back to them.

[Handsome men don't lose fights]

No Hero. Someone once DM'd me a picture of that "spinal cord as a phallus" spread and that was it for me. Nearly put me off Warren Ellis for life.

[dancj]

I've read enough Garth Ennis to know that his work has no value for me. I generally avoid any comic with his name attached, pages slip through of course but they don't often make me re-think my stance.

I find him to be my number one most reliable writer. I'll read anything he writes.

[dancj]

Hmm...

Fathom
Lady Death
Badrock
Pretty much anything Marvel or Image put out in the 90s (with notable exceptions - Savage Dragon and The Maxx).

[GOLGO 13]

- I have -0 interest in Archie, but the Archie horror is like delicious sexy candy for me.

- If I see an elf on the cover I just immediately dismiss it.

- Star Trek, Star Wars or anything "cosmic/spacey" that is not related to horror/Warhammer I ignore unless it's free & I'm very, very bored at the moment.

- "Slice of Life" books does nothing for me.

- I adore the early Vampirella books of the Warren era. Modern Vampirella is garbage & will get no love from me.

[KOSLOX]

Those Alt-Hero books look pretty terrible.

[babyblob]

I go to great lengths to avoid Power pack. I read one in a trade and I hated it. I am also not a fan of the Xmen books. But I am going to try and get them another chance. Oh and Howard The Duck. He has no value for me.

[Iron Maiden]

I dropped ALL the X-books just before the turn of the century after the franchise became a hideously bloated mess. I haven't missed them one iota and have ZERO intention of ever going back to them.

I loved the Claremont/Byrne era and before that the brief Roy Thomas/Neal Adams run. I did read Grant Morrison but not much since. I felt the same way you do.

I'll probably get lectured but I don't read anything by Garth Ennis or Mark Millar. We know Ennis hates mainstream comics anyway and I don't care for any of the kind of stories he writes. I gave up on Millar's "Nemesis" and have been Millar-free ever since. I find them both perverse, if that's the right term. I try to stay in a PG-13 world

[jetengine]

Those Alt-Hero books look pretty terrible.

Well duh, their written for and by Confederates, Nazis and lunatics.

[dancj]

Spawn

The Dave Simm issue was good. As far as I'm aware, that's about it.