1. Titans
Okay, in fairness, the reason this is number one has to do with my antipathy for Judd Winick's writing, but it's not as if it's a particularly good concept to begin with. Basically, Titans is a rehash of the seminal Wolfman\Perez run from the '80s, except with the characters now being marginally older...except the reader is treated to Judd Winick's take on the classic characters:
So, at least one Titan is dead, a entire team was nearly killed, and the following splash page shows a bunch more downed Titans...but that's not going to get our heroes down!
There's nothing interesting about this title, it looks like it's going to basically be retellings the Wolfman stories of yesteryear (Trigon! What a bold choice of villain!), except you'll end up rooting for the bad guys.
2. Supergirl
There has been exactly one version of Supergirl that has had decent stories written about her. That was Peter David's run, and it would seem that at least portions of it are no longer in continuity. (I can't imagine how the final arc could work) There's probably some good reason why Kara Zor-El lends herself to such crappy stories, but I don't have the energy to figure it out.
That said, this run of Supergirl is bad, and has the distinction of being bad despite multiple revamps. First there was the aborted Loeb run which saw Supergirl meander around the DC world and...not do much interesting, honestly.
But then One Year Later came and DC saw an opportunity to try again:
They brought in Greg Rucka, put Supergirl and Power Girl on Kandor, and had them looking for Supergirl's home....and then Rucka set a new record for shortest run with a whopping one issue.
So they brought in Joe Kelly and he decided to emphasize what made this version of Supergirl unique. Now tragically, that turned out to be being a whiny screw-up, but, well, he tried, I guess.
But that is all in the past, in the current storyline, written by Kelley Puckett, Supergirl promises to find a cure for cancer in order to save a dying boy, and then is told by basically everyone she meets what an idiot she is for doing that, but, undaunted by their words of warning she tries anyway...and fails.
Supergirl is a series about a whiny blond who occasionally takes breaks from moping in order to dramatically fail at something, which in turns gives her something new to mope about.
3. Justice League of America
To break this up, here are ten reasons why this version of the JLA should go...away...1. It transformed the Red Tornado into some sort of nightmarish emo-bot.
2. It thinks that people give a shit about Vixen's powers.
3. It featured Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman sitting around a cave and debating who was worthy of being in their league for five issues.
4. It has spent a good deal of its run setting up crappy storylines in other books. (Salvation Run! The Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding! A New Tangent Maxi-Series!)
5. Ladies and Gentlemen: The least-creative romantic pairing in comics history: Red Arrow and Hawkgirl!. (You see, Hawkman and Green Arrow disliked each other, so logically...)
6. Geo-Force? Black Lightning? Really...in the Justice League?
7. I didn't really care for the Lightning Saga either, I suppose.
8. Black Canary as the leader?
9. I'm one reason short, sorry.
10. Because there's a new Justice League series by James Robinson coming out, and two Justice League series seems redundant.
4. Superman/Batman
There were many changes to continuity after the Crisis that were regrettable, but I think that the writers of that time were right to change the dynamics of Superman and Batman's relationship.
Let's be honest, Batman and Superman are not two heroes that really should work together too often. Superman moves planets on a whim, Batman wages a relentless war on street crime. Now, the occasional team-up is fine, but trying to turn that into an ongoing series doesn't seem like a very good idea.
Hell, look at the first few storylines in the book: Luthor deciding to go completely insane for stupid reasons, the new version of Supergirl showing up, and Superman and Batman meeting a very-thinly veiled pastiche of the Avengers in a storyline that went nowhere very, very slowly.
5. Checkmate
Well, Bruce Jones is the new writer, so cancellation is (thankfully) inevitable anyway.
Rucka's run was good though.
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