Comments on: My Favorite Mid-90s Marvel Comic Screw-Up

By: Richard J. Marcej

Richard J. Marcej — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Unplugged meant no editors.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:55:21 +0000

What was “Look Back in Armor” meant to be? Google turns up very very little.

By: jazzbo

jazzbo — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:14:21 +0000

I’m with you, Carl. That whole page seems screwed up, not just some word balloons out of place. It’s like the writer was just shown individual panels, out of sequence or context, and wrote dialogue for them.

By: Peter Quill

Peter Quill — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:22:31 +0000

How is a busted piece of metal like a life preserver?

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:42:28 +0000

No, seriously, someone explain the bit with the brunette.

Even changing the word balloons explain everything because the main panel on the page has Deathcry trying to rescue the blond guy in the white shirt. The first panel on the next page shows her actually catching the guy (from a completely different angle, btw). It’s like those two panels aren’t even on the right page. Is there some other page in this issue that has the brunette woman in it? As I see it here are the blatant mistakes on the page:

Two panels with the brunette woman are on the wrong page.
The word balloons are mixed up between both the characters and the panels
They neglected to draw in whatever was being thrown to use as a life preserver and the accompanying rope.

By: Citizen Scribbler

Citizen Scribbler — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:36:00 +0000

I think a feature like this absolutely fits the philosophy of the site.

Comics that once were just horrible to even look at can be transformed into a source of amusement and entertainment. It makes bad comics good!

Other requests include The Blasters Special and Green Lantern: Mosaic 1

-Citizen Scribbler

By: Lt. Clutch

Lt. Clutch — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:34:28 +0000

This is the reason why I stopped reading Avengers until Busiek and Perez arrived. And probably the inspiration for Bendis tearing apart the old group so harshly. The mid-90′s Avengers sucked all shades of bad.

By: Dan Felty

Dan Felty — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:17:06 +0000

OK! (it did make me laugh)

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:55:33 +0000

Yeah, I would agree that this still falls under the general philosophy of the site.

That doesn’t mean I’ll be doing more, just saying that it falls under the general philosophy of the site.

Besides, this really is my favorite screw-up, so nothing can really match it for me! That doesn’t mean that I don’t have plenty more stuff like this ready to go if need be.

By: jazzbo

jazzbo — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:39:57 +0000

I think this still falls under the philosophy of Comics Should be Good. As in “See, this is bad.To be good comics should not be like this.”

That’s my way of saying I’d love to see more of these posts.

By: hangmanjury

hangmanjury — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:38:31 +0000

MC Wyman had some pretty solid fill-in issues for Silver Surfer though, so he ain’t all bad.

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:14:04 +0000

I also have the credits up there twice, as they are on the page demonstrating Graviton’s ugly new costume and to show the misspelled names.

You monster!

By: Dan Felty

Dan Felty — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:58:03 +0000

This is very, very bad, to the point of being funny, even in the places where it accomplishes what it intends. But it’s Comics Should Be Good, not Horrible Comics Should Be Ridiculed, so please don’t make this a regular feature.

Am I a buzzkill? I’m not trying to be!

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:56:16 +0000

So… why is the panel with Deathcry going “wow” posted twice?

It’s the end of the bit showing that there was no follow-up to her “heeeeelp!” from the previous page and the beginning of the next bit showing the parent telling her to go look for the daughter, so I included it for both bits.

I also have the credits up there twice, as they are on the page demonstrating Graviton’s ugly new costume and to show the misspelled names.

By: Drawsix BD

Drawsix BD — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:21:37 +0000

“Forceworks. Whatever happened to that Century guy, anyhow?”

Well given the fact he was brought to earth by the scarlet witch and fell in love with her, we could always assume he was created by her insanity…yay scarlet witch explains the errors away again.

By: Sijo

Sijo — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:17:49 +0000

So… why is the panel with Deathcry going “wow” posted twice? That wasn’t in the comic, was it? Did Cronin commit a screw-up of his own? (Hey, nobody’s perfect!) ; )

By: Nitz the Bloody

Nitz the Bloody — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:07:10 +0000

Even putting aside the grade school-level inconsistencies, we still have Gravitron having stolen Doctor Doom’s look with ten times the paramilitary fetishism. No wonder he killed himself recently….you simply don’t live a look like that down.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:18:06 +0000

Bill (Reed), a comic made in a weeekend can be great, if the old story about the creation of the Metal Men is true.

Well, yes, one can: I point to Human Torch #5 or thereabouts, in the Golden Age. The Torch vs. Namor issue? Done in about a weekend, and totally awesome. But they can’t all be winners.

By: Duff McWhalen

Duff McWhalen — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:07:10 +0000

I’m always digging through Avengers back issues, and I always see that awkward cover with Crystal and Widow touching asses. If only I knew that the pages between the covers were so incredible.

By: Jeff R.

Jeff R. — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:43:16 +0000

“* Teen Tony. There was nothing redeemable about this story line.”

Redeemable? No. I personally love reading me some Busiek when he’s in serious continuity-cleanup-mode, and was quite looking forward to “Look Back in Armor”.

Since that never actually happened, nothing redeemed would be accurate, though.