So what are the absolute worst comics of 2016?

>Mockingbird
>bad
I wish this meme died. Two issues aside it was perfectly fun comic.

Can't go wrong with Mockingbird there.

>Muh tampons.

>>88602912
Marvel thread?

>>88602988
Then why did it get cancelled in under a year?

>>88603014
>good comics
>selling

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>Jackie Kashian liked Mockingbird

Never meet your heroes, /co/

>>88603014
Because quality is not indicative of a comics success.

Omega Men was about to be canceled at 6 issues. Foolkillers gone. The dozen others if you go back farther.

>>88603048
Oh fuck off. You seriously think this comic was good? Fucking hang yourself.

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>>88602988
>>88603048
>Actually defending mockingbird

Thanks for the laughs.

>>88602988
>2 horrible issues out of 8
>perfectly fun

>>88603066
Then go recommend the good comics to people. Grassroots that shit.
If you couldn't even be assed to do that in a place other than /co/ then I doubt it was that good to begin with.

Civil War II

>>88602988
2 out of 8 is 25% senpai.

I don't think Mockingbird is as bad as people make it out to be but it was bad.

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>>88602988
Found the feminist!

>>88602912
>implying Mockingbird wasn't for the most part great
At least use Hellcat or Civil War

>>88603270
I want /co/mblr to leave

>>88602912
Mockingbird was good though.

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Honestly this is shaping up to be the worst imo

>>88603270
at BEST it was boring

it sunk to lower than that several times though so no, it wasn't "great" for the most part

Civil War.

Total but pretty trash.

>>88603292
We all do, but an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Hard to get rid of /co/'s tumblr crowd without making it too inhospitable for them to come in the first place.

>>88603157
You're really saying this in a thread about the worst comics of the year? Also he wasn't complaining about it, just stating a fact, sales are not indicative of quality.

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Followed it on vice when it was coming out , bought the book expecting at least a bit more plot/character development but ended up getting a whole lot more preaching and characters just wondering about, it also has no ending

>>88603522
>At BEST it was painfully unfunny and obnoxious
FTFY

I'd probably throw down Patsy Walker, AKA Hellcat! as the worst It technically came out 23 Dec 2015, but fuck it. That's 1 year ago.

Mockingbird was mostly just mediocre with bits of shit here and there. If not for the odd twitter surge over it's cancellation it would have passed by without being noticed and only remembered on /co/ for the biclops page.

Champions has also been pretty fucking bad so far. But it's been enjoyably terrible so I can't hate it. Sitting down to read the storytime with /co/ has been fun.

>>88602912

When I noticed it was pushing a Feminist Agenda, I dropped it. Didn't like the Mockingbird characterization as well.

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>>88602988
>fun

>>88603655
>sales are not indicative of quality.
Sometimes they are. Just look at Spider-Man's current sales numbers, or Civil War 2.

More of a personal opinion but BLACK seemed pretty bad, but who knows maybe it got better after the first issue.

>>88602912
Still don't know what there is to get upset about.

>>88602912
The sad thing about Mockingbird is that I liked the art and humor. But the hamfisted agenda pushing made it unreadable

>>88603936
Civil War 2 is the third-best selling comic broski.

Champions is fucking dreck

>>88604182
You have issues.

Also the """""""worst"" is probably one of those Deadpool spinoff books.

>>88603270
>Hellcat
How is that bad? It's an all age comic. Just because you're not the target audience, doesn't mean it's bad.

>>88603770
If it wasn't for reading Champions with the rest of /co/ during storytime, I would probably hate it more. At least it's funny seeing everyone trying to figure out what the fuck Waid was thinking.

>>88603166
THe only correct answer.
Mockingbird was just a mediocre series that people hate because it triggered a few autists.
CW2 is pure, legitimate shit with zero redeeming qualities.

>>88604412
>tfw it won't end with #3
Honestly, it was a perfect end to the series, but it would've been too bold for Marvel

>>88604215
this is great

>>88602912
I wouldn't call that absolute worst in a year when Civil War II was being published.

>>88603270
>Thinking that Mockingbird was anything positive for the most part.

Are your standards that low?

>Hellcat
>Squirrel Girl
>Civil War II
>Justice League

Are my picks.

>>88603488
Can't handle the edge, wimp? Tch. I guess real comics aren't for you

Lets review the contenders so far from anon:

Civil War 2.

Mockingbird.

Champions

Squirrel Girl

What's bad on the DC and indie sides?


>>88603770
>Patsy Walker, AKA Hellcat!

>>88604396
It's dull, trite and preachy. The jokes fall flat. The action is boring and predictable with no sense of dramatic tension. The slice of life portions just seem to be innane random crap from Kate Leth's daily life, without any narrative or thematic continuity, and they're fucking boring to boot. The art varies, from barely passable at best, to inexpressive squishy post revision bee and puppycat blobs at worst.

There's great all ages comics like Guhiru's power pack, Marvel adventures, Usagi Yotimbo, Bone. There's great comics that I don't like.

Hell, there's shit like lumberjanes, which I hate the fuck out of, but at least understand where the fanbase is coming from. This, I've got no clue, and since I haven't met any serious fans, I may never know.

>>88605819
Justice league if I had to pick one.

The fat whore who took a selfie wth Hillary Clinton

>>88605819
>dull
That doesn't even begin to describe it.
The Panini Spider-Man comics that are just silly all-ages fun feel like serious crime thrillers in comparison when it comes to tension and have a much better humor.

>>88605871
What's wrong with it? I'm having trouble keeping track with the rebirths and reboots and shit.

>>88603166
Vietnam War III when?

>>88604215
moar? this guy should do all the fem shit covers in this style, really great stuff

>>88606065
It already happened. It was between the Cambodian and Chinese versus the Vietnamese. All around, it lasted from 1978 to 1992.

I just finished a history class on the Vietnam wars this semester

>>88604215
The funny thing is girls that wear tv shirts like that are by and large the easiest to fuck. They want attention.

>>88608039
Hypothetical: I see a girl in a TV show shirt in class. How do I flirt well enough to get her to sleep with me? As much detail as possible would be appreciated. Autists like me need to specificity to help us out in here

>>88602912
>it triggered my sensitive MRA feelings by putting a scary word on the cover
>therefore it was bad

>>88608326
Why are you asking an obvious virgin for sex advice, anon?

>>88608391
agenda is pretty threatening, yo

>>88608391
>the MRA is bad meme
why anon

>>88608424
Do you have any advice then?

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>>88602912
Friendly reminder that thanks to you kids and your "MUH MAN FEELINGS" whining, this happened and Marvel will be sure to release more comics like Mockingbird in the near future.

Great work, all.

>>88608543
It was best seller for like one day, it's already dropped to the 50s

>>88608326
Literally just spark up a conversation casually about said show, then lead that into a joke, then start asking her about herself, if she has a tattoo ask about it. Then get her number "in case you miss class".

>>88608424
Kek keep projecting landwhale.

>>88608039
yeah bro i get so much sweet puss of those feminists

>>88608663
You say that ironically but they are some of the easiest girls to sleep with. Most of them were either neglected or hurt by a male figure emotionally.

They just want to be loved and respected bruv.

>>88603824
thanks for letting everyone know you are twelve. What are you even doing on this website?

Rebirth

>>88604215
came here to post this. Thanks anon

Civil War 2 is easily the worst comic of the year.
At least other comics were singular in their badness. CW2 reached into nearly every other Marvel comic and made them worse.

>>88612342
Miles Spider-Man was ever worse

>>88612615
Isn't Miles book just recapping what's going on in Civil War II

>>88612644
people paid money for it

>>88602912

mockingbird was only the worst comic if you only read like 3 comics. even then it's not crazy likely it'd be the worst.

>>88610718
Really? What's so bad about it? I almost picked it up an hour ago.

>>88608641
>Then get her number "in case you miss class".
This anon, while of dubious credentials, does have this one right.

Death of X

>>88604215
>8 hours
based mods

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>>88613184

There was worse social justice commentary in comics in 2016 but this one stood out to be as especially cringe-worthy.

>>88613276
I am honestly pissed off by this number of c/c. This is completely unacceptable.

Seriously check out most of Marvel and you will find the worst comics of this year and the least professional writers and artists

>>88612798
I wouldn't call Mocking Bird the worst comic but I would say that it did lead to the worst amount of drama this year.
Arguments about the writer being bullied off social media, when the writer herself even admitted she was not bullied off social media

>>88613276
is this from the Mark Wade book?

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All-Shit Batman.

http://www.strawpoll.me/11938847

I made a strawpoll to see what the majority of people think.

is Squirrel Girl even counted as 2016?

>>88603057
Your image name lies.
she's never full.

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>>88604215

>>88613616
Champions, yeah. It's not IC with her Vision personality, either.

>>88616184
god damn it Waid, how far have you fallen.
I loved some of his older comics, his Brave and the Bold mini with Green Lantern (hal) and Flash (Barry) is still one of my favorite books.

It's really disheartening to see someone you looked up to as writer when you were younger just implode in his own self-loathing

>>88616293
It's almost tempting to start going "If a guy's worked in the industry for 25+ years, his best work is behind him. Don't bother."

>>88616317
The sad truth of that statement that at least relates to the comic industry

>>88602988
You're not wrong, but 2 offensively bad issues out of an 8 issue run is still pretty fucking bad.

>>88616358
Yeah. I mean, you have guys like John Wagner, but they're more the exception that proves the rule.

Waid, Moore, Claremont, Neal Adams, JRJR, Greg Land (Yes, he's shit, but have you seen his pre-tracing artwork? He used to be good.), Jim Shooter... Great. Fantastic. Amazing for their times. Better off not reminding us now.

>>88616401
But Wagner is shit these days too.

>>88616530
To each his own.

>>88616401
Moore has been doing tremendous work this year though, no idea what you're on about, he definitely still has it.

>>88616569
Last things I saw Moore working on were Neonomicon (Nonsense H.P. Lovecraft fuckfic), the end of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century (Harry Potter is the antichrist and he kills his school with his penis-wand, only to be killed by Mary Poppins who is secretly God. Cutting edge.), some fanfic about Captian Nemo's daughter for LoEG, and some shit for Crossed.

Has he done anything noteworthy other than that in the past four or five years?

>>88608543
>actually believing this
lmao

>people still getting triggered over the triggered joke in champions

genius

>>88616671

he's done some H.P. Lovecraft thing this year people are losing their minds over how great it is

>>88616849
Have you read it?

>>88616863

no, but because i'm not a lovecraft person.

>>88613443
I would think retconing a legendary run and making a hero look like a psychopath cunt would be worse.

>>88616901
It's so bad that the characterization spread to Cage.

Champions

Waid trying to write totally hip young people is cringey as fuck. #woke

>>88616917

How? Cage has been in a drawer since like the mid 00s

>>88616964
Mockingbird got in a fight and had lines like "Are you fatshaming me?" during it.

>>88613160
DoX was the only interesting X comic in years.

>>88616981

Wait are you talking about power man and iron fist? yeah that's hearing hoofbeats and thinking zebras

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>>88616671

His anthology collection, Cinema Purgatorio, starts out each issue with a perfectly serviceable, somewhat surreal deconstruction of black and white films, written by him and drawn by Kevin O'Neill.

The rest of the anthology is actually fairly interesting as well, beyond Moore's stuff.
There's a story that's like Ugly Americans, but from the perspective of an EMT (By Ennis, I think). Another one is an absurdly well drawn mash up of Pokemon, demonology and Mad Max. Yet another is a story that began as a carbon copy of Pacific Rim, but is slowly also becoming Pokemon (???).

Lastly, Max Brooks is writing some kind of alternate history civil war story where instead of fighting confederates they fight giant ants, and each chapter has more flavor text about the historical basis of the story than actual story. Reasonable considering how much knowledge one needs to have about the Civil War to even slightly appreciate the content of the story.

It's one of the most interesting comics out right now. It almost makes me forget that he mostly writes Lovecraft fanfiction and incomprehensible Crossed spinoffs nowadays.

>>88613276
I don't even understand what she is trying to say.

>>88617239
Basically, she's accusing Kamala of trying to insult her and make her feel out of place for suggesting that they tell ghost stories around the campfire.

Since her power is intangibility and she's a synthezoid, so she's human, but not quite, alive, but mechanical, and can't be touched.

can we call hellblazer shit so that dc can get it off the mainline and give it to young animal?

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Probably not the worst, but this whole run is up there. Slapstick had amazing potential as a character like the Mask, but this whole run is just fucking awful.

>Stiff as shit art (a cardinal sin in a book about cartoons)

>wasted potential with the villains,

>humor that came out of an adult swim show

>no sense of any sort of coherent plot

Fucking Cage! Is a better cartoon comic then this shit.

>>88602912
Kekingbird, Lethcat and Sqhurl Girl are the easy choices. Civil War II is the no brainer choice. Clone Conspiracy is the "Dan Slot Annual Bad Story" choice.

But Champions is the worst.

>worst single issue
Mockingbird #3
>worst ongoing book
Harley Quinn
>Worst Limited/Completed series
Civil War II
>Most disappointing book (TIE)
Batman, Surgeon X

>browsing Slowtaku at work cause I was bored
>TOP 20 COMICS OF 2016 list
>Mockingbird and Squirrel Girl both on the list, ahead of books like The Flintstones and Deathstroke

wew fucking lad

>>88602912
1. Mockingbird
2. Civil War II
3. Heathcliff

>>88618485
>>88618556
And a tip of the fedora to you fine gentlesirs!

Btw Deathstroke is a joke of a character and The Flintstones is unreadable.

>>88618485
>Mockingbird #3
>worst
Why the fuck is it so easy to threaten comic book nerds' masculinity with imaginary stories?

Civil War 2

>>88619155
Durr. Because there's a huge percentage of Comic geeks who's masculinity is experienced vicariously through the power-porn depicted in far too many comics.

>>88608641
Sweet. Why after I get her number though? Do i just text her to go on a date like a dinner and movie?

>>88603770
Hellcat at least has redeemable art. Brittany Williams deserves better for example, she would be spectacular at DC.

>>88602988
>perfectly fun comic.
It was obnoxious on how quirky it tried to be.

>>88619155
What?

>>88618624
Heathcliff needs to be on both the best and worst lists of 2016

>>88612342
This.
It crashed the entire company.

>>88616293
Black Widow was good

Angela Queen of Hel, anybody?

Everything written by women

>>88619146
wat

>>88602988

Nah. Some of the issues were OK, perhaps even good. Two were horribad. None were perfect.

That being said Civil War II: Bendis Harder was a lot worse.

Literally everything from Marvel that isn't Vision is a strong contender.

>>88602988
>I love big black dicks in my ass

Fixed

>>88616401
What the fuck is wrong with you? Yeah, pre tracing Land wasn't as horrific as he is now, but good? fucking great? you're out of your damn mind.

>>88619155

Eh, i dont know about worst, but it was pretty damn bad.

The girl straight up murders several people when she had ample opportunity to solve the situation peacefully (For that matter the very fact that she was not filled with bullets when she started killing people make the cops nearby goddamn heroes (and kinda stupid))

And then all Mockingbird have to contribute is babbling about tampons and people being scared of little girls...Of course they were scared, she blew up a chopper and killed a bunch of people.

The comic is as blind to its issues as the infamous comic where Carol Danvers got knocked up by her pseudo son and mindcontrolled into joining him to his rapedungeon dimension and the rest of the Avengers just stood by and considered this a happy ending.

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>>88619155

i love that a writer with such a delicate personality as to produce tripe like this, and its the *reader* who calls it out the goofiness that feels "threatened".

>>88620406

Still not as bad as Kamala solving third-world sexism by beating up some menfolk then fleeing the country. Yeah, all those women they protected were beaten, raped, and/or killed about 5 minutes after they left. Even Wade cannot be this myopic, I think he knew how unrealistic this scenario was but, hey, its just comics, he wants to get real but not TOO real.

>>88620407

The biggest issue is the cowardliness of it.

"That never happened. Marvel had female heroes from day one. We can argue how empowered or feminist they were, but they were there."

"It might have happened."

"No it could not, we still got copies of these comics. And the women are there."

"Not for Mockingbird."

She was basically saying that Mockingbird was delusional and lived in her own little world.

And it is the perfect argument because that allows her to do anything, because her fictional character might have hallucinated something up.

>>88613660
The art and primes are so fucking great though.
It really should have just been a roadtrip adventure with Bats and Harvey there; a few moments of bonding and exploration of their duality juxtaposed by some over top set-peace action scenes.