8 Times Good Comic Book Creators Went Bad!
6. Jim Lee - Divine Right
Jim Lee is one of the most popular artists in the history of the medium. His work on X-Men #1 set a sales record of seven million copies, a figure that will likely never be surpassed. Once announced, his name on a project will more or less guarantee its position at the top of the sales chart.
As head of WildStorm, he wrote and drew Divine Right: The Adventures of Max Faraday. It addresses the, as yet, untapped vein of theological concepts in Lee's universe, with "Angels" and "Demons" appearing for the first time. In theory, the title was to bring more fantastical themes and supernatural elements into a story driven by science and governmental conspiracies.
While the finished product had all the visual flair one would expect from him, it was abundantly clear by the end of the first issue that Jim Lee was no Neil Gaiman. Weighty theological topics were misunderstood or overly simplified and drowned in a sea of needless crossovers, cheesecake and two-dimensional characters.
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