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Comic book series and storylines that border on the ridiculous, but can be [[So Bad ItsIt's Good|strangely compelling in spite of themselves]].
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* ''Marvel Team Up #74'' featuring [[Spider-Man]] teaming up with the old cast of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' to defeat Silver Samurai. The cover is hilarious - it has John Belushi, in character as Samurai Fatuba, having a samurai swordfight with Silver Samurai.
** There was a similar comic with Jay Leno. The plot being Spider-Man and Leno team up to film a General Motors commercial, then get attacked by ninjas, and a 52-year-old Jay Leno practicing kung fu on a ninja-defeating level. It also has a [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|promising Brokeback Mountain-style subtext]].
** Similarly, ''[http://www.spiderfan.org/comics/images/marvel_teamup/137.jpg Marvel Team-Up #137]. May Parker is given a portion of world-devourer Galactus' powers, and becomes his herald, "The Golden Oldie". Thank god it was a [[What If|What-If]] story and a case of [[Stylistic Suck]].
* The ''[[Doom]]'' [[Doom (Comic Book)|comic]]. How bad is it? REAL BAD! It's a 12.0 on the 10.0 scale of badness!
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* What about that issue of ''[[Doom Patrol (Comic Book)|Doom Patrol]]'' where the super villain with the robotic penis is beaten by the transsexual hooker in a frog mask who gained powers by servicing a radioactive Hermaphrodite? [http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article59.htm Proof.]
* ''Battle Pope''. It's the post-rapture Apocalypse, demons are everywhere. The righteous are taken to Heaven and surprise, the Pope's not among them. After being visited by [[God]] and [[Jesus Was Way Cool|Jesus]], the Pope [[Took a Level In Badass|becomes a badass demon hunter]]. [[Rated M for Manly|"When He's not giving Mass, He's kicking ass!"]]
* Although [[Valiant Comics]] produced a number of series that where good enough to stand up on their own merits, Bloodshot certainly counts as this. A basic [[Nineties Anti Hero]] [[ClicheCliché Storm]], where the creative staff couldn't decide which direction they wanted to go in, so they went in all of them at once. "He's like Batman! Now he's like The Punisher! Now he's Wolverine!" The result being an experimental super solder created by a Japanese corporation, out of the body of a betrayed Mafia hitman, who wanders the streets of New York in a [[Badass Longcoat|trench coat]]. The plots are completely illogical, he gets on a plane, battles assassins and terrorists, falls out, and lands in the jungles of South East Asia, where he goes all Rambo on some random guerrillas. Also random crossovers. A lot of them.
* The ''Magog'' solo series is this. An [[Affectionate Parody]] of the classic [[Nineties Anti Hero]], and a rogues gallery consisting of a silver haired woman who talks like a 1980s valley girl, a crazy homeless dude, and his mother.
* Promotional comics, when done right but still featuring obvious product placement, are like this in general.
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** Actually, all the early Avenger's stories are like that to one extent or another. It's when the team lineup changes for the first time that things start to actually be good.
** It really doesn't help that the earliest stories have the team treating it like some kind of secret club, with regularly scheduled meetings and having hissy fits when a member doesn't show up (in one very early issue, Iron Man was even banned from the team for a week because he missed a meeting).
* ''Brute Force'', a four-issue mini series from Marvel in which a hippie scientist has his cyborg gorilla stolen by a group of mercenary clowns. He then makes a team of cyborg animals consisting of a kangaroo, an eagle, a bear, a dolphin, and a lion to fight the evil corporation behind the kidnapping and the destruction of the rainforest. Yes, seriously. Even [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Linkara]] addressed that it's a [[So Bad ItsIt's Good|so bad, it's good]] comic and that you ''should'' try to pick it up, if only for the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Robo-Bear Vs. Cyber-Gorilla fight]]<ref>Which he [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?|set to]] [[Nightwish]]'s [[Memetic Mutation|"Ghost Love Score"]]</ref>, which he considered to be nearly as awesome as Neutro riding on top of a whale. Linkara cited this comic as why he loves comics: no other medium he's seen has moments as bizarrely awesome as clowns taking down a cyborg gorilla.
* Likewise, fellow Marvel book U.S.-1, a series in which a young trucker, after surviving a crash, has most of his skull replaced by a metal alloy skull that can pick up CB-radio waves. One of his villains is a demonic trucker called the Highwayman, who tries to KILL our hero. There is also a love triangle involving U.S., the blonde truck-stop waitress named 'Mary [[Mc Grill]]', and [[Fiery Redhead|a red-haired female trucker]] named Taryn, complete with catfight-worthy taunts from the girls!
* Also likewise, Now Comics' ''[[Mr. T|Mister T and the T-Force]]'', with immortal lines like, "[[Drugs Are Bad|It's a crack baby, foo'!]]"
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