If you had to pick what you consider the best and worst story arc for your favorite characters, what would they be? It can be an entire arc/series or just a single issue, however you want to call it.
Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)
Best: Green Lantern Rebirth
Worst: Emerald Twilight
Wonder Woman:
Best: Gods and Mortals
Worst: Sacrifice or Injustice (mainly the Tom Taylor-written parts)
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11-08-2020, 09:47 PM #1Ultimate Member
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Best/Worst Single Story For Your Favorite Characters
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Batman.
Best, Batman: Year One.
Worst, Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again or All-Star Batman and Robin The Boy Wonder.
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Why did you dislike Sacrifice? I haven't read it in a long time but Rucka's first run is usually beloved by Wonder Woman fans.
Originally Posted by Gaius
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Lobo
Best- Lobo vs The Mask
Worst- "killed" by the New52 one.
Jason Todd
Best- Rebirth Outlaws with Dark Trinity.
Worst- Battle for the Cowl/under Morrison in general.
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Jason Todd
Best - Who is Artemis or Good Night Gotham
Worst - Brothers in Blood
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The Flash - Wally West
BEST:
Terminal Velocity
WORST:
Heroes in Crisis"My name is Wally West. I'm the fastest man alive!"
I'll try being nicer if you try being smarter.
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Rucka did the best he could with the story given it was an editorial edict but short term it derailed the more interesting storylines going on in his book for the sake of buildup to Infinite Crisis and long term just contributed more to “Wonder Woman the angry warrior” interpretation and shoehorning a lame character like Max Lord into her world. Originally Posted by Timothy Hunter
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Batman
Best: Long Halloween
Worst: Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again
Superman
Best: American Alien
Worst: Godfall
Flash
Best: Terminal Velocity
Worst: Reverse Flash New52
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Green Arrow:
Chuck Dixon, Ollie getting blown up in a helicopter. (good story, horrible ending)
Brad Meltzer run with Ollie and Roy as the red arrow, Smith's run was brilliant to.
The Question:
JLA Cartoon - he discovers that Baskin & Robbins conspiracy of 31 flavours
Rick Veitch - Question mini series as a shaman type hero - brutally awful and unreadable.
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Batman
Best: To Kill a Legend (I sound like a broken record at how many times I mention that story in this forum) though Cold Days and Batman Year One is up there
Worst: It would be The Dark Knight Strikes Again but since I haven't actually read it then it's ASBAR
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Why were Rick Veitch's early 2000 DC stories so terrible? He was great in the 80s and 90s. Originally Posted by The no face guy
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Batman
Best: Untold Legends, everything written by Alan Brennert which includes 'To Kill A Legend', Year One,
Worst: All Star Batman, the Batman Beyond comic by Kyle Higgins that 'revealed' that Bruce impregnated Barbara,
Black Canary
Best: JLA Year One, Death of Black Canary by Alan Brennert, Dixon/Simone BOP runs,
Worst: Winnick's GA run, the mini series that lead up to the wedding and all the wedding related stuff,
Zatanna
Best: Everyday Magic, Seven Soldiers, Dini's run along with her 'Tec appearances,
Worst: Early JLD run,
Question
Best: O'Neil
Worst: Not O'Neill (exception made only for JLU Question).
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Agreed, I was looking for BC answer. I loved Dixon's BOP run, but Winnick's GA as a whole was pretty shotty. Originally Posted by John Venus
I can't speak for his other work, as the Question mini series was my first exposure to him, and it was an unbearable read. Vic Sage is my favourite superhero of all time, but I don't think I got by issue 1 if I recall. Originally Posted by Timothy Hunter
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Donna Troy, sadly, does not have many (any?) great stand-alone stories with Donna as lead.
However, some of the best stories including/focusing on her: Who Is Donna Troy?; Who Is Wonder Girl?; Tales of the Teen Titans #50; Girl Frenzy: Donna Troy.
Worst: So many to choose from, but I'd go with the Finches' murderous Donna Troy.
Totally agree that Heroes in Crisis is the worst Wally West story. Ugh. Originally Posted by married guy
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Under the Zatanna section are you refering to Justice League Dark or Justice League Detroit? Originally Posted by John Venus
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