Horrible comics that you actually kind of like anyway

[Aaron Kashtan]

I don't know if it's a horrible comic, but I'm kind of ashamed of reading Elfquest -- and in contrast, I'm not ashamed of reading My Little Pony comics.

[Pinsir]

Be honest, now: Do you actually like this, or do you "like" it the way people "like" Birdemic and The Room?

As for me, I have a fond affection for the ALF comics of my youth that I refuse to ruin by actually going back and reading them.

It's great. If there ever was a comic book that demonstrated the mediums tendency for power fulfillment its this series. Sonich #10 is one of my favourite single comics.

[SuperBeetle]

The Authority: Human on the Inside by John Ridley, at the time I read it I didn't saw nothing wrong with and the art was good. Now I can see its problems but still, I'm a sucker for the art.

[Ghost]

I used to read alot of harvey licensed stuff.. like Monsters in my Pocket and Little Dracula. Ren and Stimpy by Marvel (even had a spiderman crossover haha). Batman Digital Justice blew me away when I was younger.. I dont ever hear anyone talk about it at all now.

[SteveGus]

[Cipher]

Almost all of Scott Lobdell's New 52 entries. I know they're objectively awful, but I can't help it.

Perhaps more shamefully, I also have a huge soft spot for early Spawn.

[Wolverine12]

Ultimates 3 by Loeb. It didn't fit with the UU but I still enjoyed it lol. Ultimate Power got a lot of heat too but I really liked that mini.

[t hedge coke]

I like the Rob Zombie approach: Nothing you like is bad, you like good stuff. All good stuff has some flaw, and you're just discerning enough you can like something for the parts you enjoy and remain aware of the flaws or failures. If it was really horrible, it'd offer you nothing.

Or, something like that.

The Authority: Human on the Inside by John Ridley, at the time I read it I didn't saw nothing wrong with and the art was good. Now I can see its problems but still, I'm a sucker for the art.

The art's still good. And, most of the story. The approach to the characters and some of the gender/sex dynamics... let's just say John Ridley and I seem to understand some things differently. Not a bad comic, though.

[Primetime Harder]

I guess the most horrible comics I like are DC's Silver Age stuff - Batman fighting guys like Crazy Quilt and the Cavalier, Superman hiding behind clouds of cigar smoke and making Jimmy Olsen marry a gorilla. Campy, cheesy, 4-color stuff, but I love it.

I will also read anything with J'onn J'onzz in it, regardless of who was writing him at the time.

[earl]

Perhaps more shamefully, I also have a huge soft spot for early Spawn.

I was out of comics when Spawn happened, but I saw and really liked the HBO cartoon and saw the movie in a dollar movie and thought it was ok.

I've been reading Spawn from the beginning (up to #64) and that is such a maddeningly inconsistent series. There will be issues and scenes that are interesting, then it goes into some just really dumb places. It could have used an editor going "do you really want to go there" to McFarlene. The spinoff series Curse of Spawn may be the worst comic series ever though, that comic infuriated me after just a couple of issues it's so terrible. That comic is just over the top willfully ugly.

[Jeremi]

Almost all of Scott Lobdell's New 52 entries. I know they're objectively awful, but I can't help it.

Perhaps more shamefully, I also have a huge soft spot for early Spawn.

I was having a hard time figuring out something but with the mention of Lobdell I recalled Alpha Flight volume 3.

Wasn't a big fan of the time travel arc, which evidently a lot of people was since it got cancelled, but I thought it was otherwise a pretty fun comic.

[Charles RB]

Batman fighting guys like Crazy Quilt

His gimmick was actually quilts?

[Arvandor]

This is how I feel about much of Zenescope's output. A lot of it is terrible, but I'm drawn to it anyway.

(Not all of it, though. Some of it, particularly the Wonderland saga, is genuinely good stuff.)

[cgh]

Not sure how this will go over, but most Cerberus after "Melmoth" is basically unreadable junk. It's misogynistic, preachy, overtly religious and just plain terrible. Yet there are still some great moments and the entire thing still retains a sense of what I can only guess is Dave Sims's charisma, I don't know. I'm embarrassed for having read it all once, let alone twice.

[Personamanx]

I have a soft spot for Gen13 in general if that counts.