Okay so I just made my monthly trip to the comic shop and picked up a huge stack of old comics for a few pounds. There's good stuff (Deadpool Max) and a couple of bad title (Punisher:The End), but right in the middle was a copy of Youngblood #4 that's probably been polybagged since '92. I've read tons of internet coverage of it being part of the 'WORST COMIC EVER' so thought it would be fun in a masochistic kind of way. I tore it open and read through and have to say its actually not that bad.
Sure every character is a rip off, the artwork is overblown and the story barely exists but as a brainless action piece I've defiantly read a LOT worse. The preview pages for Pitt at the back look a lot worse since you can barely tell what is what, the story has the decency to be a so bad you don't care rather than a 'so offensively bad its countdown' and flicking through a Nick fury comic from just two years earlier I can see why people thought Liefeld was better than he was art wise.
I actually feel quite annoyed, this thing had been so reverse-hyped that I was looking forward to reading the king of awful but only got not very good. Ultimatum or Amazons Attack are still my personal worst comics ever. Anyone else ever had their low expectations shot down like this?
Sure every character is a rip off, the artwork is overblown and the story barely exists but as a brainless action piece I've defiantly read a LOT worse. The preview pages for Pitt at the back look a lot worse since you can barely tell what is what, the story has the decency to be a so bad you don't care rather than a 'so offensively bad its countdown' and flicking through a Nick fury comic from just two years earlier I can see why people thought Liefeld was better than he was art wise.
I actually feel quite annoyed, this thing had been so reverse-hyped that I was looking forward to reading the king of awful but only got not very good. Ultimatum or Amazons Attack are still my personal worst comics ever. Anyone else ever had their low expectations shot down like this?