While the Clone Saga arguably takes the cake as the most obvious example of a comics story that had promise but failed to deliver so completely that we remember it years later as an embarrassing disaster, it’s far from the only example. Yesterday we looked at five such stories, and today we’ll wrap up with five more that are arguably just as bad.The Dark Knight Strikes Again
The Dark Knight Returns
Watchmen
Crisis on Infinite Earths
The premise:
Why it failed:
The Dark Knight Returns
The fallout:
All-Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder
Batman Year One
Dark Knight
All-Star Superman
Dark Knight: Boy Wonder
Holy Terror, Batman!
pretty terrible
controversial online rant
Spider-Man: Chapter One
Man of Steel
Untold Tales of Spider-Man
The premise:
Why it failed:
Spider-Man
Wikipedia
Heroes Reborn
Man of Steel
The fallout:
coming soon
recently reissued
Ultimate Spider-Man
Countdown (to Final Crisis)
52
Countdown
Final Crisis
The premise:
Countdown
52
Final Crisis
52
Why it failed:
52
Countdown
Final Crisis
Countdown
The Death of the New Gods
52
Countdown
52
Countdown
Final Crisis
The fallout:
Countdown
Wednesday Comics
Countdown
Brightest Day
Justice League: Generation Lost
Justice League: Cry for Justice
Starman
The Golden Age
Infinite Crisis
Detective Comics
Justice League: Cry For Justice
The premise:
Final Crisis
Why it failed:
Justice League
The fallout:
Rise of Arsenal
Cry for Justice
Rise of Arsenal
Civil War
The premise:
Why it failed:
Secret Invasion
One More Day
Civil War
The fallout:
