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* Bruce Jones' run on the once-spectacular ''Checkmate''. He knew the title was going to be canned when he took it, so he felt free to go insane. How bad was this? He took a gritty, realistic spy thriller and made it about a morphing, amnesiac animal man fighting giant porcupines.
* ''[[Cry for Justice]]'', a DC miniseries by James Robinson that featured [[Green Lantern|Hal Jordan]] trying to create a proactive Justice League (because that always ends well). Nicknamed "Gay for Justice" by readers, thanks to some unfortunate lettering styles. The series features gratuitous gore and violence, characters being dismembered, horrible writing and gross characterization, and everyone constantly shouting "[[For Great Justice|For justice]]!" Put it this way — when the author directly and explicitly apologizes to the fans over the quality of the work, ''twice'', '''before the series has finished''', then you know you're dealing with something '''''awful'''''. It was pointlessly [[Darker and Edgier]], even killing off Lian Harper last-minute for no real reason, and that was just one among a great almighty ''fuckload'' of senseless deaths. Robinson got himself under all manner of fire for its release, despite the fact that he fought tooth-and-nail against the editors, who wanted much, much more in the pointless death and destruction departments. Not two years later, it and both of its follow-ups were retconned in full. [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/29265-justice-league-cry-for-justice-1-2 It] [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/29356-justice-league-cry-for-justice-3-4 got] [http://at4w.blip.tv/file/4674807/ featured] on ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]],'' if you're interested.
* DC Comics' weekly series ''[[Countdown to Final Crisis]]'', by most accounts. Bad Writing, bad art, bad characterization, three different names (it started as ''Countdown'', then ''Countdown to Final Crisis'', and the final issue was titled ''DC Universe Zero''), three alternate Earths destroyed to prop up villains fans don't like, tie-in mini-series that explain key plot points that are equally horrible, and an ending that completely contradicted the events that it was created to build up. Shortly after ''[[
* ''DC Challenge'' was an interesting concept — a 12-issue miniseries in which teams of people who normally did not work together would take turns doing stories which could not prominently feature characters they normally worked on, each issue setting up a [[Cliff Hanger]] that the next team would have to solve in the next issue. Unfortunately, [[Round Robin]] stories are hard enough to manage as fanwork. Doing ''this'' professionally would've been difficult, so it wasn't. This quickly degenerated into a confusing mess. By the end, major plot threads had been dropped completely and nobody was ''quite'' sure what was going on — not even the editors at DC.
* Devin Grayson's run on ''[[Nightwing]]'', particularly her attempt to re-enact the plot of ''Born Again'' on the least suitable character in the entire DCU. The sheer amount of characters that would need to be retconned from the DCU (assuming they didn't detach Dick Grayson completely from it) should have kept this from passing the concept phase, but that's just one issue; other gems from this include the rape scene courtesy of [[Author Avatar|Tarantula]]—which she tried to defend as being [[No Except Yes|"nonconsensual" rather than rape]]—and Richard's inexplicable [[Face Heel Turn]] and poorly-explained alliance with Deathstroke, the result of a failed attempt to manufacture a "hero from the ashes" storyline (''[[Infinite Crisis]]'' got in the way) by pointlessly giving Nightwing hell.
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== Political Cartoons ==
* ''[[Counterthink]]'' is a ridiculous mix of PETA and Scientology's most paranoid fantasies. Topics include why spending money on drugs, rather than [[All-Natural Snake Oil|herbal placebos]], is bad; "doctors are incompetent, egotistical butchers"; "[[Science Is Bad|technologies are dangerous]]"; and "chemical additives, including Fluoride, are evil."
* The works of Brazilian artist Carlos Latuff could aptly illustrate the entry for [[Anvilicious]] when the term enters the dictionary, but that trope still doesn't go halfway in describing his cartoons. A primitive [[Black and White Morality|black and white view]] of the world permeates his strips, with the USA and Israel entirely demonized (and literally everything controversial they've ever done attributed to [[Motiveless Malignity]]), virtually everyone who opposes them made out to be a hero despite sometimes being completely different from one another (communists on the left and Islamic fundamentalists on the right are both celebrated), gratuitous amounts of violent imagery are used to reinforce his "points", and his [[
** Basically, he's pretty much a rebellious uneducated 12-year-old in the body of a grown man with passable drawing skills.
** He's also said to be ''incredibly'' rude, deleting any comment on his art that doesn't agree with him exactly, including, presumably, people who try to be voices of reason offering constructive criticism. Which is a shame, as he ''has'' drawn some surprisingly heartwarming cartoons advocating peace in the Middle East. It's just that these are lost amid a sea of blood, [[Draco in Leather Pants|leather-pantsing]], and bodily fluids.
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