Bad/subpar books or stories with great art

[Gaius]

Azzarello's Wonder Woman.

[superduperman]

All Star Batman and Robin for the win. Yes, there are other bad entries but the dialogue on this was just...GAH! And there was no plot! Like, it didn't even get finished it was so bad. Miller just moved on to something else. And DC let him! You can tell Didio or somebody felt they owed him a favor or something. Honorable mention would be anything written by Neal Adams. The guy writes the opposite off the way he draws.

[Timothy Hunter]

Everything written by Loeb.

Why is there such a sharp drop in qualiy whenever Loeb doesn't work with Tim Sale on a comic?

[SiegePerilous02]

Everything written by Loeb.

Came to post exactly this.

[Hol]

Heroes in Crisis, Flash Rebirth and HUSH. In that order as well.

[9th.]

Heroes in Crisis the thread

The art in that book was GORGEOUS. Good lord

[SJNeal]

Why is there such a sharp drop in qualiy whenever Loeb doesn't work with Tim Sale on a comic?

Makes you wonder how some of Loeb's "classics" would hold up had they been illustrated by someone else...

[godisawesome]

I’d second the Heroes In Crisis and All Star Batman And Robin…

…And I’d add both Scott Lobdell and Will Pfeifer’s New 52 Teen Titans runs. Brett Booth and Kenneth Roccafort may not be great artists, but both wound up showing a lot more skill than Lobdell and Pfeifer did.

[skyvolt2000]

pretty self explanatory. what are some stories where the story was a two-pack of ass but art was impressive?

EDIT: oh, my answer is Doomsday Clock and Three Jokers btw.

I am still mad I wasted $4 for that series. Guess there was a reason it was in the 25 cent bins at my store for the first 9 issues.

Heroes in Crisis

That book should be used corporate punishment. That will set a thug straight.

Frankly, I'd be mad if it was either Walker's or Semper's.

(Hate that Semper doesn't get his dues for Cyborg, even if Walker isn't much better only gets them belatedly and in passing.)

Like New 52 Static Shock-those messes fall on the EDITOR.

Semper had written Static, Cyborg, Justice League & Peter Parker before. So it's not like he did not KNOW what he was doing.

[Gaius]

Makes you wonder how some of Loeb's "classics" would hold up had they been illustrated by someone else...

We'll find out when the first part of TLH movie is released.

[Stanlos]

Makes you wonder how some of Loeb's "classics" would hold up had they been illustrated by someone else...

I dug Loebs Superman stuff leading up to OWAW that drew upon old world journalism as a framing device

[Timothy Hunter]

Jeph Loeb is basically the epitome of the hollywood screenwriter turned comic writer, all flash no substance.