Worst DC Crossovers

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:43 pm

What are your choices?

I'm going to start off with Bloodlines. It was pretty damn pointless. At least 1,000,000 had some fun parts.

Steve Topper · Post by **Steve Topper** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:46 pm

What about Genesis? That one seemed like John Byrne wanting to show how he understood Kirby's New Gods better than even Kirby did. Wasted story that tied into too many books and I still have no idea what Byrne was trying to say.

Bloodlines was pretty pointless except that it did lead to Hitman, which was an outstanding series.

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:49 pm

Steve Topper wrote:What about Genesis? That one seemed like John Byrne wanting to show how he understood Kirby's New Gods better than even Kirby did. Wasted story that tied into too many books and I still have no idea what Byrne was trying to say.

Bloodlines was pretty pointless except that it did lead to Hitman, which was an outstanding series.

Good point about Hitman. I haven't read Genesis. Byrne definitely has a deep affection for The New Gods/4th World stuff, evidenced by his Superman work and his comments on Masters Of The Universe being "the best New Gods movie ever made." Granted, even the director of the film agreed that was the intent.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:08 pm

year 1000000

comicsyte95 · Post by **comicsyte95** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:14 pm

I didnt like War of the gods, Circe came back anyway.Plus it was the end of George Pérez's run of Wonder woman and cause him to leave dc for awhile also affecting the penciling of infinity gauntlet.

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:12 am

War of the Gods & Millenium were pretty bad.
Genesis as pointed out above just almost might not have happened it was so pointless

Bloodlines seemed pretty poor, but as i got to read them all, they were actually kind of fun to be honest.
Lets face it they came out when Image started and if you compare them they are miles ahead of the Image books in storytelling.

leonmallett · Post by **leonmallett** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:28 am

Knightfall; just a sprawling mess except for a couple of books here and there telling almost contained stories within the story.

Infinite Crisis - poor. Just an excuse to depict over the top violence and dispose of characters that Didio didn't like. Don't like a character Didio? Then let them be rested until someone can figure them out instead of killing them off in droves, then locking the door, for properties of which you are only custodian not the owner. Warners should see what state he has left the charcter stable in after his tenure; they may be unpleasantly surprised.

Millenium - poor; it was DC's Secret Invasion 20 years earlier, but the execution was not good at all.

Final Crisis - a mess of a story yet written by one of my favourites; not good.

BruceReville · Post by **BruceReville** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:36 am

Millenium was just horrible!

chisumwomack · Post by **chisumwomack** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:09 am

Got to give the nod to Genesis. Although I've never read Millenium, so who knows. Did not care for Day Of Judgement either.

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:31 am

Final Crisis. To quote a local gas station attendant - "I licked a page in Final Crisis 7 and got high."

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:29 am

I enjoyed Final Crisis and to an extent Identity Crisis. Neither of which were amazing but definitely not up there with the worst crossovers ever.

Personally some of the worst crossovers to me were the 90s Amalgam comics and of course Deathmate.

georgewlea · Post by **georgewlea** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:21 am

I would have to say that final crisis was the worsy for me

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:24 am

A scouser on the board?!? Better start nailing things down guys!

Welcome to the boards dude, although I see you've been signed up a while!

Cyberstrike · Post by **Cyberstrike** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:31 am

The Last Laugh it was about The Joker who is tricked into thinking that he is dying and creates a Joker serum that Jokerized about every villain and tries to get Batman to fight him to the death, only Nightwing gets there first and literally beats the Joker to death and Batman then arrives and revives him.

The ending was lame even for DC standards, and the revelation that the prison doctor did this as a prank on the Joker was beyond stupid. This was a storyline/crossover that had no real reason to be done and coming about 1 or 2 month after DC's 3 month Our Worlds at War crossover and almost all creators being given little or no time to prepare and was stupid all the way around and you could tell that many (if not all) of the creators didn't want to do this story and many it seems were told at the 11th hour and the best that they could do was draw Joker faces on the villains and/or make some off hand reference.

Runners up: Infinte Crisis and Final Crisis.

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:33 am

Cyberstrike wrote:The Last Laugh The Joker is tricked into thinking that he is dying and decides to create a Joker serum that Jokerized about every villain and tries to get Batman to fight him to the death, only Nightwing gets there first and literally beats the Joker to death and Batman arrives and revives him.

You could tell that many (if not all) of the creators didn't want to do this story and many it seems were told at the 11th hour and the best that they could do was draw Joker faces on the villains or make some off hand reference.

The ending was lame, the revelation that the prison doctor did this as a prank on the Joker was insulting.

In other words: A crossover that served no real reason to be done and coming about 1 or 2 month after DC's 3 month Our Worlds at War crossover and almost all creators being given little or no time to prepare and was stupid all the way around

Runners up: Infinte Crisis and Final Crisis.

Oooo, not a bad choice. It was so awful that I'd blotted out the memory of the thing. I do agree about Final Crisis, but I sort of liked Infinite Crisis, in some ways.

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:33 am

Good call, I picked up a bunch of Last Laugh crossovers a few months back, it didn't make a whole lot of sense!

georgewlea · Post by **georgewlea** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:37 am

thanks ian my girlfriend laughed