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{{quote|''"And really, is there anything more awesome than seeing ''[[Bruce Campbell]]'' taking out zombie superheroes? Well, okay, yes, but it's hard to top [[Brute Force|Robo-Bear versus Cyber-Gorilla]]."''<br />
''"This comic sucks...but it's SO much fun in its stupidity!"''|'''[[Atop the Fourth Wall
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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
* The ''[[Doom]]'' [[Doom (Comic Book)|comic]]. How bad is it? REAL BAD! It's a 12.0 on the 10.0 scale of badness!
** Now someone's gone and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yc5bnOrSc made a video slideshow of it]! ... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XZ1UECrRk0 And someone else edited it.]
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** "Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good!"
* Back in 1959, there was a [[Martian Manhunter]] story in which J'onn J'onzz goes up against a foe called ''the Human Flame''... who was a schlub named Mike who built a "crime suit" that shot electric bolts and fire out of little spouts on the chest. That's right: ''Flaming Shock-Nipples of Crime!'' He dropped off the face of the earth for 50 years and was eventually brought back as an [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]] in ''[[Crisis Crossover|Final Crisis]]''.
* [[Frank Miller]]'s ''[[Batman
** For the initiated, ASSBAR is an attempt at retelling Batman's earliest adventures with Robin...except Miller writes Batman as a complete and total lunatic whose actions make no sense. Meanwhile, the Joker is humorless, Robin eats rats, Superman is a bumbling idiot, and Wonder Woman is a feminist extremist who advocates castrating all men.
*** And Green Lantern gets to deliver the immortal line "Damn you AND your lemonade!"
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* Speaking of Superman, the comic ''Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen'' was always a goldmine of "so bad it's good" - well, the comic ''was'' responsible for ''The [[New Gods]]'', so it wasn't ''all'' bad.
** So was ''Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane'', except without the New Gods.
* The "[[Product Placement|Adventures of Kool-Aid Man]]" comic from the early 80's. Featuring the [[Mascot|Kool-Aid Man]] as a [[Product
** This is one of at least 6 things listed here that [[Atop the Fourth Wall
* According to the [http://www.the-isb.com/?p=980 Invincible Super-Blog], the one glimmer of awesomeness in ''Tarot'' #53 (or the entire series) is: ''"You have to get out of here. Your '''vagina''' is '''haunted'''."''
* [[The DCU]] series "New Guardians", which only lasted for 12 issues. Six superheroes (all of whom are [[Captain Ethnic|captain ethnics]]) are "chosen" to be the next level of human evolution, and are sent on the "glorious mission" to spread their genes by banging as many people as possible. (The problem with this is that the male half is almost completely exempt from this. One of them is [[Camp Gay]], another is a cyborg with computer powers that probably can't be passed down genetically, and this just leaves the half man/half plant.) The only thing in the way of their glorious mission is the fact that a South African Neo-Nazi sends a vampire with AIDS to infect them. They also fight Snowflame, a supervillain who gets super powers from sniffing cocaine and runs a cocaine cult in Colombia. Ironically enough, he has since developed [[Ensemble Darkhorse|another kind of cult following]].
** The [[Unfortunate Implications|Crypto-fascist subtext]] in their mission of eugenics, and the way they out and out call themselves [[A Nazi
** Plus, not only is sex their mission, it seems to be all they ever think about. In an attempt at giving the comic a "mature" feel, the characters drop sex into nearly EVERY conversation. On several occasions, they'll be discussing something unrelated, and someone will say "you know that reminds me: I have sex all the time!" and ''no one will find that weird.''
*** [[Atop the Fourth Wall
* While he is commonly considered the best [[Transformers]] comic writer, Simon Furman is known for his purple prose and frequently-recycled dialogue ([http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Furmanism "IT NEVER ENDS!", "Never did want to live forever", "...like some vast, predatory bird!", and "...the worst case of indigestion it's ever had!"] are some frequently-repeated offenders). A decent-sized chunk of the fandom and Furman himself actually ''embrace'' these flaws, as they give his work a [[Narm Charm|distinctive charm.]]
* What about that issue of ''[[
* ''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]] [[Cliché 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.
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** The Marvel/Office Max/Teacher Appreciation one where Dr. Doom is defeated thanks to the power of ''a rubber band ball'' is a spectacular example. Read about it [http://www.i-mockery.com/comics/longbox10/default.php here].
** NASA's Aero and Space comic is exactly what you would expect a comic book produced by NASA to be. Long, kinda-boring scenes about administration and getting funding for stuff... and then supercool action. The villain gets some pretty stupid lines, but c'mon, superheroes in battlesuits jumping out of an SR-71 and then launching into orbit!
* The various [[
* A lot of the [[Silver Age]], especially the comics of the "[[Super Dickery|Superman inexplicably forces Jimmy Olsen to marry a gorilla]]" variety.
* Godzilla vs. Charles Barkley. [http://cdn2.maxim.com/maxim/files/2009/11/11/10-worst-athlete-merchandising-mistakes/GodzillaGotBusy.jpg This picture sums it up nicely.]
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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
* 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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* Steampunk Palin. Sarah Palin. As a cyborg. Powered by Steam. Also, Robot Obama (Robama). The Russians have taken over Alaska with the aid of Al Gore. Al Gore is apparently Cobra Commander.
** There's also ''Sarah Palin vs. The World'', which mixes Mrs. Palin with [[Scott Pilgrim|a certain Canadian's precious little life]], and it's as absurd as you imagine it to be.
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