Disclaimer: I have not bought a comic book since I graduated high school in 1985.
I never liked any of D.C. The only title I started to buy was the Teen Titans.
I also couldn’t stand Steve Ditko as an artist.
i never used to like Fantastic Four either. The dialogue was ridiculous. Reed Richards would have more technobabble in a single panel than you got in a whole episode of Star Trek (usually intercut with several lame put-downs between the thing and the torch). It was surprising how often the scientific solution to a problem involved something being heated to a very high temperature (so hot that it needed to be shielded), and then striking it quite hard. I can’t remember who the writer was at the time, but they weren’t great.
I was also similarly skeptical about Daredevil. It seemed really slow moving, and I didn’t warm to the characters (this was during the Ann Nocenti era), but kept on collecting for some reason. Eventually though, it became good, and I was really glad I had stuck with it.
Eh, since you’re asking for negative opinions, I guess it’s not threadshitting to say that I was never a big comic fan as a kid and thought that the medium was rather boring. On the other hand, I did love me some Elfquest when I was 15 and I think Watchmen is a fine piece of literature.
I read a lot of comics at the end of the 80s and I started to get tired of the X-Men. There was a storyline where the X-Men all faked their deaths and were hanging out in Australia that pretty much lost me. On top of that, there was this late 80’s art that I thought was bad and the X-Men had that in spades.
Also, there was the Badger, which the concept sounded really crazy. A Vietnam vet with multiple personality disorder who could talk to the animals and would usually call people Larry. It seemed like something right up my alley, but I just couldn’t get into it.
I was a pretty big Marvel zombie at the time but I never much got into Fantastic Four either.
My habits went in spurts. I’d get into a character for a while and then got bored with them. So I’d be in to the Green Lantern for a while, and then The Flash, Superboy, etc… In the 70’s I liked titles that teamed characters up like Marvel two-in-One and DC’s “The Brave & the Bold”.
I stopped serious comic book buying in 1980, about a year after I graduated high school. But I’ll buy one now and then at the airport when I’m getting ready for a flight. Usually an Archie series. I never ever bored of the Archies!
Do paper backs count as comic books for purposes of this thread? Because I really hate[ed] The Family Circus. Even after I had kids I didn’t think it was cute or funny at all!
I hated mostly everything by DC. Superman, Batman, Flash, Wonder Woman, for some reason I just found them all the be utterly ridiculous from as early on as I can remember. I know my first reaction to Superman was “so he’s indestructible and can do pretty much anything, but he’s allergic to some rock?” And then I had the opposite reaction to Batman, “He has no powers whatsoever?! He’s just a rich guy?”
Also, I’ve read that many time in the DC comics, the artist would come up with a cover, then the writer would write a story to go with the cover, and you can believe it if take a close look. But, basically, many of the early DC comics had very little character development, and very few story arcs. But, I’m sure they changed that to compete with Marvel.
I loved Fantastic Four, Spider-man, Avengers, and the “New” X-men.
I got into X-men just after they faked their deaths. It was very slow moving at first, but I came to really like it. I enjoyed a storyline that was prepared to take its time building up
I don’t remember the name, but those "Metal"superheroes (Iron, Lead, tin, etc.) were pretty lame.
And all of the Harvey comics (Richy Rich, Stumbo, etc.) were pretty bad.
DC’s “Metal Men.” The concept was cute, but it never quite clicked. They made a re-appearance a few years ago, with some very heavily computer-assisted art, and it was a total yawn.
Also, the unsubtle sexism of “Platinum” as a cute chick was a bit overdone. (And this from a fan of the whole “Sexy Robot” motif!)
I did admire the joke where they introduced “Copper” and nobody could remember her existence. “What, is Copper now on our team?” “Hey, guys, I’m right here!”
ETA: I never did get the point of “American Flagg.” Everybody says it was brilliant, and I just could never see anything in it.
ETA: I didn’t care much for the early “Cerebus the Aardvark.” Later, it got pretty good – the “High Society” collection is brilliant – but it went and got crappy again as Dave Sim went down paths that no man should follow.
I never got into Scrooge McDuck comics myself, but I’ve read for years and years about the genius of its long time writer. Who, I just learned in this threads, is named Carl Barks, not Carl Banks. :smack:
Just as a vaguely amusing side anecdote, a pen-pal of mine worked as a translator, taking European-written Donald Duck stories and translating them to English. He used to have to work against Eurocentrism. Donald Duck would just hop into his weird red jalopy and zoom over to Paris. Hard to do that when in “Calisota, U.S.A.” So he’d have to add dopey little narration notes: “After a quick trans-Atlantic ferry trip…”
I don’t get the Richie Rich hate. His stories (especially the multi-part adventure stories) were quite good (assuming you were the target audience, of course–Harvey Comics were aimed at young kids, not the same age as the superhero fans). Richie, Little Dot, Little Lotta, Little Audrey–I thought they were all fun when I was under 10. Casper was okay. Never did like Stumbo or Baby Huey.
That’s “like a gopher”. 
… yeah, I’ve got nothin’ else to add. Duck comics were the only ones I read as a kid, and they’re the only ones I read now.
Infovore: the only thing about Richie Rich that I never got was why he had poor friends. He’s got uncountable gazillions of dollars: couldn’t he at least boost his closest friends out of poverty?
But, that said, I liked those back when I was the target age. I liked Casper (and I had such a little-boy crush on Wendy!) I was a little daunted by Hot Stuff: to begin with, he’s a devil! That can’t be good! And then, he’s just darned dangerous! He’s red hot; he burns stuff. He’d be a really rotten kid to invite to a birthday party: he’d ruin the sofa and the carpet and probably burn the house down.
Little Dot disturbed me, even when I was very young. I didn’t know what “Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder” was, but I recognized it as a bad thing. Nothing wrong with having a favorite color or whatnot, but taking it to that extreme is not mentally healthy.
I couldn’t figure out Little Audrey at all. I still can’t! Is she supposed to be just plain daft, like the Animaniacs? Is she simply cloud-cuckoo crazy?
To me, richie rich was fantasy fulfillment. Kids are broke, what would it be like to have money? Looking back though, it seems laughable to me that richie would settle for Gloria or any one girl. He should have a harem of supermodels, cheerleaders, and groupies. His security guys would be spending all day tackling naked girls that jumped the wall trying to bone him.
Heehee!
The thing with Richie is that he was constantly trying to give his poor friends money, but they were too proud to take it. There was a running gag about how he always tried to give Gloria (his girlfriend) lavish gifts, but she’d only accept simple things like small boxes of candy, toys, or flowers. Nothing fancy. And the reason he had poor friends instead of rich ones was because all the other rich kids in the comics were entitled little twits. The poor kids had character. Gloria, BTW, wasn’t poor: she was solidly middle-class.
Re: Little Dot: yeah, she had some serious issues. She also had a very strange family. One of the Dot titles was “Little Dot’s Uncles and Aunts,” wherein she had adventures with a different uncle or aunt (or more than one) in each issue. Either her parents were both Mormons with enormous families, secretly the Duggars, or else they stretched the definition of “uncle and aunt” pretty far, because nobody has that many siblings.
Re: Richie not settling for Gloria: Remember, he’s only like 10 years old. Give him time! 
BTW, there’s a new version of Richie Rich out now, from Ape Entertainment. They’ve updated Richie to modern times, aged him a bit (he’s about 12 now), updated his costume (thank goodness!) and made him part of an organization called “Rich Rescue” that goes around the world helping people and having adventures. They’re focused more on “here’s the cool stuff I have to do cool things with” rather than “look at how rich I am!” Kind of like Indiana Jones meets James Bond for the preteen set. They’re not bad. And Cadbury the butler, who was always kind of badass, is now younger and even more badass. I’m not sure the comics are currently being produced, but this has been over the last couple of years.
In the 70’s in addition to regular comic books I bought a lot of “comics digests” which I assumed were a collection from various issues of regular comic books. When they first came out (especially the Archie versions) they were a good value. 50 cents for 160 pages.
I had a couple of Casper comics digests. Some of the Casper stories were rather intricate. One were he traveled through time and had to protect a dinosaurs egg. Another were he traveled to an “opposite” land where he was a spooky ghost and Wendys 3 sisters were nice.
I also had some Disney comics digests that reprinted things from 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s. The Donald Duck stories were awesome! Very in depth stories of him and his nephews going to the mid east investigating a mystic ring, going into outer space with Unca Scrooge to look for a place to hide his money. Some of those stories were really long, too. Dozens of pages.
HERE is how Richie would be in real life! 
Great. Another false memory. For 55 years I’ve remembered it as “grasshopper.”
As long as I’m back, I forgot (naturally) our second favorite most-used DD mention:
“Duckburg”
Here is the best take on Richie Rich I’ve ever seen.