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Truly Awful Comics 10 - New Guardians #1 (Apr 2001)
Unpromising source material, hollow characterization, atrocious dialogue, lame plotting, and uncompelling obsession with sex and white supremacism somehow fail to come together as a winning combination in New Guardians #1.

Columns from 2001

Truly Awful Comics 09 - The Kingdom #2: Bad Comics as Opportunities Lost (Mar 2001)
The Kingdom #2, in attempting to build on a revered piece like Kingdom Come, mainly manages to make a fellow casualty out of the source material when, through a bait-and-switch ending, it crashes and burns.

Truly Awful Comics 08 - Judging a Book by Its Cover (Mar 2001)
While a cover alone can't earn a comic a place in the rosters of the Truly Awful, it can provide valuable clues to guide a reader away from books he might ultimately regret buying.

Truly Awful Comics 07 - Treading the Well-Beaten Path in X-Mutants #1 Special Edition (Mar 2001)
The occasional gem of bad comics earns its place in the roster of the Truly Awful by relentlessly bombarding the reader with a savage storm of cliches.

Truly Awful Comics 06 - That "Why Did I Read This?" Feeling (Mar 2001)
Some comics reveal their awfulness less through specific offenses against the senses and more through the creation of a feeling of regret for the time lost reading them./P>

Truly Awful Comics 05 - Hulk Annual 2000 (Feb 2001)
For some, the mixture of comic-book violence, implied incest, incomprehensible character redefinition, bad Mae West imitations, and dubious anthropology in this little Marvel Comics gem make an overall unpalatable package.

Columns from 2000

Truly Awful Comics 04 - Spider-Woman #16-17 (Nov 2000)
Reading the sixteenth and seventeenth issues of Spider-Woman greatly increased my understanding of why some Byrne critics so rabidly abhor the man's work.

Columns from 1999

Truly Awful Comics 03 - Avengers #200 (Dec 1999)
Marvel Comics thought they should make an event out of the two-hundredth issue of the Avengers; what they did would go down in the annals of bad comics.

Truly Awful Comics 02 - Captain America #186 (Dec 1999)
Some comics have no right to happen. This piece offered a case in point when it put the Falcon in a pimp suit.

Columns from 1998

Truly Awful Comics 01 - Bloodstrike #5 (Jan 1998)
People who knew better contributed to this grotesque exercise in excessive violence and gore.

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