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** [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] has [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/5273-amazons-attack-1-and-2 reviewed the] [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/5425-amazons-attack-3-and-4 entire miniseries] [http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/5595-amazons-attack-5-and-6 as well.]
* 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. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130908055647/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 ''[[52]]'' was finished, Dan Didio asked [[Grant Morrison]] to give some of his (work in progress) scripts of the first several issues of ''Final Crisis''; other than that, it was pretty much controlled by Didio. It also pulled away advertising from the infinitely better ''[[Sinestro Corps War]]'' story that was going on at the same time. The whole thing was declared [[Canon Discontinuity]] the minute it was finished, but it still didn't erase the horrible taste it left in readers' mouths. It was so bad that the intended final issue, ''DC Universe #0'', written by Grant Morrison and Geoff Johns, essentially replaced ''Countdown'' as the real lead-up to ''[[Final Crisis]]'' (the only thing that was acknowledged from ''Countdown'' was Darkseid's death, fall, and reincarnation into a human body as seen in ''[[Seven Soldiers]]''). It was built up to be the spine of the DCU, but quickly became the ''colon''.
** As with many others of the comics listed here, [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]] reviewed it. His review was on four parts, but only two of them were dedicated to the [http://atopthefourthwall.com/countdown-part-1/ comic] [http://atopthefourthwall.com/countdown-part-2/ itself], because in his opinion the plot was so thin that he could chuck half of the comic's run in 20 minutes and his public wouldn't lose nothing of importance. The other two parts were [http://atopthefourthwall.com/countdown-prologue/ a prologue] to explain the background, conception and characters involved in the disaster, and a countdown of [http://atopthefourthwall.com/the-top-15-worst-moments-of-countdown/ the 15 most awful moments] of the comic.
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* ''Rise Of Arsenal'' is the spiritual sequel to ''Cry for Justice'', which ought to warn readers off. The story is jarringly offensive and bad, attempts at gaining emotion from the reader feel forced and manipulative, Roy Harper is massively [[Out of Character|out of character]] (even after considering that he's a grieving father), and the art is often inconsistent. To sum up how bad this book can be: there's a moment where Roy beats up a bunch of thugs in an alley to protect a dead cat that he thinks is his dead daughter while strung out on heroin... yes, that ''does'' happen. Oh, and they solve the plot point of Roy's grief by [[Ret-Gone|retconning Lian out of existence]], [[Shaggy Dog Story|so his grief disappear because he never was a father in the first place!]]
* ''[[Superman: At Earth's End]]'' is a truly failed attempt to make Superman fit in [[The Dark Age of Comic Books]]. From turning the Man of Steel into a gun-toting, incoherent, moronic Santa Claus lookalike, to the overall stupidity of the plot (the main villains are [[You Cloned Hitler|clones of Hitler]] — such a plot could be effective in a comic that didn't take itself seriously, but here it comes across as lazy), it truly comes as a complete mess of [[Executive Meddling]] gone wrong.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130908172420/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/linkara/at4w/3252-superman-at-earths-end At least two good things came out of it]: "[[Atop the Fourth Wall|I AM]] [[Catch Phrase|A MAN!]]" and "[[Memetic Mutation|Of course! Don't you know anything about science?]]"
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