8 Comics Famous Comic Creators Don't Want You To Know About

Most of the time with great artists, all of their work is of a level that - even if it's not the best - is noteworthy. All of Michelangelo's work belongs in a museum, for instance.

However, comic creators are not like all artists. Comic creators do not have time to sit and think and work on their products. Comic creators have monthly deadlines and need to move from project to project or else they'll run out of money. So it makes sense in this heavily capitalistic medium that some stinkers would slip through.

What's more surprising is that this is true even of the best comic creators. For every award-winning comic on a creator's portfolio, you'll find a comic so bad, so horrible, so unlike the others, that it's a surprise the creators did not literally dig a grave and bury it.

Luckily, though, no one has gone that far, so here is a list of some of the most messed up, poorly written, and just flat out weird comic books by otherwise examplerary artists. Because everybody gets one.

Alan Moore is one of the best comic writers ever. He's known for V for Vendetta, Swamp Thing, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and From Hell, but perhaps his most influential work is the Batman story, The Killing Joke.

In The Killing Joke, to prove anyone is one step away from madness and sociopathy the Joker abducts Barbara Gordon and shoots her in the spine. He takes pictures of her naked and sexually assaults her. He does this to drive her father, Commissioner Gordon, mad and Barbara later ends up as Oracle, a wheelchair-bound computer genius, which led to others becoming Batgirl. It's considered the landmark Batman book.

But Alan Moore hates this book.

He doesn't think it's good - even for a superhero comic, something he also hates. He hates a lot of his old superhero work, thinking it amateurish, and bearing a grudge as he doesn't own the rights to it, but The Killing Joke - with its misogyny and wide-spread influence - is top amongst his most hated. He's said that he thinks the editors should have reigned him in, but none did.

And now the Joker as a rapist is a thing that is forever DC canon.