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What were you really looking forward to?
What did you think you'd like, but didn't?
What was the book that people told you to buy? You did, and you disliked it?
I suppose it can be more than 1, but with all the generating of hype and promises and the fanboy cult out there now greater than ever there are surely plenty that apply...
Tell us and whine or bitch..or just tell us...
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Marvel in general, really. No new ideas. No direction. Just the same old Brian Michael Bendis comics....
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The digression of Nightwing as a character......if you're going to make somebody who used to be real cool a pussy.....then just kill him off.
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That's Devin Grayson for you!
Amazing she collects a paycheck for that rubbish.
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Nightwing for the above-mentioned reasons.
Identity Crisis - cool premis and Meltzer did a good job with characterization, but there were just too many loose ends left for me to feel good about the overall story in the end. I read the Bat titles, so I expect (or rather, hope) that his mind-wipe will be dealt with in those titles or in the up coming "Crisis," but I still think that his mind wipe should've been dealt with within IC. Plus, the victim and the killer turning out to be third rate characters didn't (for me) meet the hype factor that I expected. Pretty much what a lot of people bitched about in other MBs, I'm sure.
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$3 per issue.  Biggest let down, ever.
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I think Catalina Flores (Tarantula) was letdown when her hot body was butt naked in front of Nightwing and he couldn't get it up.......that was a letdown.
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This is why I haven't bought a comic in nearly a year.
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$3 per issue.
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everything with Joker in it. Also I'm not giddy about where Fables is going. They removed the two most dynamic characters and now we have to play interested in the weiners that are still around? Lucifer is great though, I thought it was gonna suck but then WOW it totally came back for me. Y-The Last Man is turning to teh suckage a bit but it also seems to be in a kind of reawakening as to what its main goals are. So that's alright for now.
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I think that happens when writers start doing more than 2 books a month..something always suffers. I cannot think of any writer this doesn't apply to. there should be a rule.... no more than 2 books a month unless it's the occassional mini-series. Vaughn writes more than 2 now, Johns has for awhile and one book always suffers, willingham is writing more now, simone writes 2 or 3 ....something always sucks with prolific writers..they are only prolific at lining their pockets...
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I dunno about Vaughn - so far I'm enjoying all the stuff he's been writing - Runaways just started up again, though, so we'll see if Vol. 2 can be as much fun as the first given his heavy writing load. But Ex Machina and Y are still on my pull list. What else is he writing? I'm blanking right now...
Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
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Past 12 months?
That really eliminates a lot of stuff I could list.
Um...
Oh, DC's fucktardedness in dropping Fallen Angel. Best comic on the market, and doing better than most of their better known superhero titles, but right when it starts to gain readership, they drop it. And I think #20 is delayed. Peter David owns the book, so at least if he can find another publisher, he can keep it going. Or, he can novelize it.
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Actually, PenWing, I read somewhere that he IS continuing Fallen Angel at another company. Either AIP or IDG, I think...
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Thank goodness, cuz Fallen Angel is excellent. I would've thought people would've checked it out based on the rumors about her possibly being Linda Danvers, but apparently not... 
Dear, sweet Harley Kwink...I'm madly in love with you. Marry me! We can go to Canadia. Or Boston or something. It'll be grand...You know the cookies are a given. They are ALWAYS a given. You could dump me tomorrow and you'd still get the cookies. Boston..shit, wherever dyke weddings were legalized. And where better to rub their little piggie noses in how bad they suck than right on their doorstep? What are they gonna do? Be jealous of you? Stare furiously at your tah-tahs? Not willingly give you cookies, but instead begrudgingly give you their cookies? Woman, time to wake up to the powers you wield - Uschi
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Avengers Disassembled
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This was a big dissapointment for me.
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Thank goodness, cuz Fallen Angel is excellent. I would've thought people would've checked it out based on the rumors about her possibly being Linda Danvers, but apparently not...
It's sad that for a new title to gain readership it has to rely on some tenuous link to a mainstream superhero property.
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everything with Joker in it. Also I'm not giddy about where Fables is going. They removed the two most dynamic characters and now we have to play interested in the weiners that are still around? Lucifer is great though, I thought it was gonna suck but then WOW it totally came back for me. Y-The Last Man is turning to teh suckage a bit but it also seems to be in a kind of reawakening as to what its main goals are. So that's alright for now.
I've been worried about Fables, but I'm still holding out hope.
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Every piece of shit issue of Superman/Batman. The pople allowing the plot holes to slide in that book should be executed in some kind of fanboy pay per view snuff film
The way Hush started out with so much promise but deterioted so quickly because of shitty endings, lack of any answers what so ever, and just plain awful writing from Lieberman
Identity Crisis. Like Harleykwin said, good series, shame DC dragged the mindwipe thing out, and the whole series turned to shit when the killer was revealed and the last issue turned into more of a waste of money prologue
Wont even go into Nightwing, that title has become a real disgrace. Im dishearetened to see a company do this to a character that meant so much to me, now he's nothing more than wimp in shoddy and poorly written stories. Devin Grayson should be in a Nightwing fans PPV snuff film aswell
Avengers Dissasembled would be on my list, but i steered well clear of that, i knew it would be shit, especially how the deaths were marketed like some cheap soap opera. Last year or so has been one hell of an awakening to the amount of shit people market in the comics industry, no fucking way im picking up anymore hyped books or 'Big Events'
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Thank goodness, cuz Fallen Angel is excellent. I would've thought people would've checked it out based on the rumors about her possibly being Linda Danvers, but apparently not...
No one cares about Linda Danvers.
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I gotta go with the obvious answer of "Identity Crisis," if, for no other reason, the fact that the entire series was apparently little more than a prologue to several others series that left too many loose ends.
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Under Millar Ultimate X-men was one of my favorite titles, but I had to drop it with issue 50 after over a year of suffering.
Johns' work has been crap on all his titles.
Chuck Austen's Action Comics. It was supposed to be an amazing story with Doomsday and Gog. But its been unbearable. I dropped it after only a 6 months.
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If we're limiting it to the last 12 months....
Two things...
-$3 for some comics. Not a good move.
-John Byrne's failure to rejuvenate the Doom Patrol. His focus remains on the new characters (who bear strong resemblances to Marvel Girl (Nudge), Beast (the four armed ape) and Cyclops (Vortex))
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r3x29yz4a, you should have carried on with Ultimate X-men for a few more issues, the way that Gambit storyline ended was suprisingly good. The Andy Kubert art and the fact that Gambit kicked Wolverines ass were also highlights. It sounds like shit again now going on the solicits, but atleast that arc gave me hope
I throw Green lantern: Rebirth into the mix aswell, the simple fact that Johns has literally wiped away all the wrong things Hal Jordon did is a a kick in the face. I thought the new GL title would deal with his guilt as he searched the world or something, but it looks as though it'll just be another lame DC title with an iron clad staus quo where Hal just battles villains and saves the day **yawn**
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Lee and Azz's run on Superman. Three words: What. the. fuck.
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Lee and Azz's run on Superman. Three words: What. the. fuck.
Four words: Best Superman story ever! 
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I thought it was a good read, but not a very superhero-y read. Not enough of the action people like and too layered for your average comic book fan.
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That's Devin Grayson for you!
Amazing she collects a paycheck for that rubbish.
Agreed and agreed. I wholeheartedly believe any one of us could do a better job of writing Nightwing than she has. Just thinking about it makes me beyond angry...it makes me angrified.
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I haven't minded her run on Nightwing.
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Birds Of Prey getting turned from a quality action book to fucking Spice Girls style "girl Power" crap would be mine.
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Now if you'll excuse me, I feel the need to exact my rage on 1020 pounds of leg press...
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i'd have to say the Azz/lee run of Superman and that whole convoluted Doomsday/gog story where Doomsday turns heroic and time again gets altered in the DCU.
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