8 Times Good Comic Book Creators Went Bad!
3. Grant Morrison - DC One Million
In the mid-to-late '90s, Grant Morrison's JLA was the hottest book on the shelves.
Along with Howard Potter, Morrison had done away with the roster of C-list characters and A-list cameos, replacing them with the biggest and best heroes DC Comics had. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and Martian Manhunter would become the fabled "Big Seven" - and JLA was the book around which DC would build the rest of its universe.
Fans rejoiced when the publisher announced a company-wide crossover featuring the arrival of the Justice Legion Alpha from one million years in the future, taking on Solaris, the "Living Sun".
The problem was that no one told any of Morrison's fellow writers and artists that they would be taking over plotting duties on each of their monthly titles. The announcement was more than a company-wide mandate telling them they would need to factor in a crossover. Creators where told they had to relinquish control to another writer so they could shoehorn in their more important story. The results of one creator plotting and writing 50+ comics in a month was disastrous - and the story was meandering, convoluted and largely unnecessary.
Alternative Recommendations: JLA Earth 2