Source: legendary.com

3. Holy Terror

Oh, Frank Miller, what happened? Batman: Year One is so friggin’ excellent and Daredevil: Born Again is wonderful! But, oh, how the mighty have fallen. Actually, less “fallen”, more “plummeted”.

Holy Terror started off as a Batman project for DC, before either Miller decided it wouldn’t work for the character or DC said, “Oh, hell no, we aren’t publishing this”, depending on whose story you believe. In the story, a scary, angry, murder-Batman named The Fixer decides to go fight Al Qaeda. Unfortunately, this book winds up being less of a screed against Al Qaeda, who are legit horrible, and more a super-angry screamfest against Islam as a whole.

And if that sounds like it’d be really uncomfortable to read, don’t worry, it is! It also promotes torture as a thing that works (it doesn’t), and paints its hero as being rampantly islamophobic. It’s an all-and-all unpleasant book that, instead of lampooning a villainous terrorist group, opts instead to demonize a vast innocent population of religious practitioners who aren’t terrorists. Terrible, hateful, painful to read.

Thank God above this wasn’t a Batman comic.