Source: avclub.com

1. Marville

Oh, sweet heaven, why did I write this article? Why am I forcibly reminding myself of the worst comics I’ve ever read? Why am I dredging up these long repressed night terrors of mine?

So Marville was part of a bet. At-the-time head of Marvel Bill Jemas really hated Peter David’s well-crafted, cosmic spanning, character focused, Captain Marvel run, and so he made David a bet. Jemas would write his own comic book, which would be “good”, and if this new comic, Marville, sold better, Jemas was allowed to cancel Captain Marvel. Jemas lost this bet so friggin’ hard that they say if you listen close enough in the Marvel offices, you can still hear the sound of him being wrong.

Marville is the most dated “humor” comic I’ve ever read. It stars the son of Ted Turner (look him up yourself), named…sigh…Kal AOL. Ha. Kal goes back in time and meets an attractive young woman, whose mostly naked body is splayed across the series’ covers like she’s a human anatomy diagram. What ensues is half a series of blindingly unfunny, nails on a chalkboard humor and half a series of pseudo-intelligent philosophical musings on God and life, for some weird reason.

It is bewilderingly bad. Confusingly bad. Unreadably, unforgivably, unjustifiably bad. And it is THE WORST comic book I could put on this list.

And there you have it, the worst of the forgotten. The bottom of the trash heap upon which the bottom of the barrel sits. Have your own recommendation for this murderer’s­ row of wastes of paper? Let me know, maybe I’ll put together a sequel column. But, oh, my God, was this one a miserable column to put together. What I need now is a long cry and a GOOD comic book.