History TheyChangedItNowItSucks / ComicBooks

* In 1989, Marvel did a tongue-in-cheek ''Marvel Year in Review'' magazine. It was designed like ''Magazine/TimeMagazine'' and detailing events of the last year as they would be reported to people in the Marvel Universe. For example, Iron Man and TonyF Stark were talked of as two different people, the secrets of various events was held quiet, etc. Fans enjoyed it as a fun look at how news in the MU was reported. In 1992, it was transformed into a ''MAD'' style magazine with "humor" stories, losing the "reporting" that made it so good. The final version, in 1994, was just a straight-up recap of various big storylines and events and didn't return the following year.

* ''ComicBook/SupermanBrianMichaelBendis'' was met with intense backlash when he revealed that he'd be aging Jon up to 17. Not only did it skip over interesting CharacterDevelopment for DC's newest and most popular KidAppealCharacter, it aged him ahead of his best friend Damian, and the circumstances for it are incredibly contrived (it involves Jon trusting his grandfather Jor-El, who had tried to plunge all of Earth into chaos a scant few months ago). Worse still, the notion of having a teenage Superboy again is entirely redundant, as Bendis brought back Conner Kent in ''[[ComicBook/{{Young Justice|2019}}]]'', which Bendis is also penning.

* In 1989, Marvel did a tongue-in-cheek ''Marvel Year in Review'' magazine. It was designed like ''Magazine/TimeMagazine'' and detailing events of the last year as they would be reported to people in the Marvel Universe. For example, Iron Man and Tony Stark were talked of as two different people, the secrets of various events was held quiet, etc. Fans enjoyed it as a fun look at how news in the MU was reported. In 1992, it was transformed into a ''MAD'' style magazine with "humor" stories, losing the "reporting" that made it so good. The final version, in 1994, was just a straight-up recap of various big storylines and events and didn't return the following year.

* ''ComicBook/SupermanBrianMichaelBendis'' was met with intense backlash when he revealed that he'd be aging Jon up to 17. Not only did it skip over interesting CharacterDevelopment for DC's newest and most popular KidAppealCharacter, it aged him ahead of his best friend Damian, and the circumstances for it are incredibly contrived (it involves Jon trusting his grandfather Jor-El, who had tried to plunge all of Earth into chaos a scant few months ago). Worse still, the notion of having a teenage Superboy again is entirely redundant, as Bendis brought back Conner Kent in ''[[ComicBook/{{Young Justice|2019}}'', which Bendis is also penning.

* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': Back in 2009 DC took steps to correct several issues which had plagued [[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 her Post-Crisis title]], such like excessive, disturbing fanservice. Artist Jamal Igle started to drawing bike shorts under Supergirl's skirt, which led to fans [[http://comicboxcommentary.blogspot.com.es/2009/06/what-more-bike-shorts-talk.html complaining]] [[http://comicboxcommentary.blogspot.com.es/2009/07/one-last-bike-shorts-post.html loudly]], to the point that Newsrama and other comic sites echoed the "controversy".

** There was some controversy surrounding the decision to retcon ComicBook/{{Cyborg}} into being a founding member of the [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]], with some fans angered by what they saw as mucking around with two teams' history for the sake of [[TokenMinority diversity]] in the League.

** Franchise/WonderWoman's [[ComicBook/WonderWoman2011 New 52 revamp]] initially to be got this reaction, the general consensus being that the coolest thing about it would be watching the fan's reactions. The first two issues were met with massive acclaim and were extremely strong sellers though. It's been said that it successfully got readers not normally interested in Wonder Woman to check it out. One change in particular that upset many fans was the fact that Diana is apparently Zeus's daughter when before it was key that she had no father and Zeus had no part in her creation. It doesn't help that her mother is Ares' daughter meaning Zeus is now Diana's great-grandfather and her dad.

* James Robinson's run on ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' got this reaction, mainly because of his decision to focus on seven second-stringers: Batman (Dick Grayson), ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy, Jesse Quick, Jade, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, Starman, and Congorilla, rather than on the "real" Justice League (defined by those who complain as either all A-Listers or as whichever team they grew up reading about). Robinson himself is aware of it, and has made it known that he considers this league as "real" as any other, yet this did little to stop the sheer amount of complaining on DC's official boards.

* The initial reaction to Creator/BrianMichaelBendis' controversial revamp of the ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' franchise, where he killed off longtime members ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, [[ComicBook/AntMan Ant-Man]], and ComicBook/TheVision, and had Scarlet Witch go insane. The subsequent decision to add characters like Franchise/SpiderMan, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, Echo, ComicBook/SpiderWoman, ComicBook/JessicaJones, ComicBook/LukeCage and ComicBook/IronFist to the team was also controversial amongst many old-school purists. However, Bendis' revamp of the franchise proved massively successful, at least from a financial standpoint.
** To put it into perspective, before Bendis took over, the Avengers were barely selling well enough to maintain one title. By the time his run ended, the franchise was popular enough to support no less than ''three'' different titles (''Avengers'', ''Comicbook/NewAvengers'', and ''Comicbook/SecretAvengers'').

* A general strong reaction by readers of ''Comicbook/AmericanFlagg'' after Creator/HowardChaykin left the book. Neither Steven Grant nor J.M. [=DeMatteis=] could meet fan expectations for the title, and even an (admittedly gonzo) storyline written by Creator/AlanMoore was poorly received.
* ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'': A very large proportion of the Franchise/SpiderMan fandom declared the storyline as its collective BerserkButton, after Creator/JoeQuesada considered dealing with Marvel's answer to Satan (who has since tacitly confirmed that he is Satan) a more realistic way to break up the much loved Spider Marriage than oh, divorce, or something like that. Due to this, the large amount of ExecutiveMeddling and the MarySue new love interest for Peter in the form of Carlie Cooper, it went down like a lead balloon.

** The ending to ''Amazing ComicBook/SpiderMan'' #700, which has [[spoiler:Peter Parker dying in Dr. Octopus' body and [[GrandTheftMe Dr. Octopus taking over as the new Superior Spider-Man in Peter's body]] ]], was met with this reaction after it was leaked two weeks before the issue hit the stands. Many who were interested in it before either decided to abandon it or tried to send death threats to Dan Slott. Numbers dropped even further with the apparent end of the HopeSpot in ''[[Comicbook/SuperiorSpiderMan Superior Spider-Man]]'' #9, criticisms including the plot mandated IdiotBall handling of the Avengers and X-Men, and not noticing [[spoiler: a full blown psychic possession]] in a universe chock full of powerful telepaths.

* While Brazilian comic ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' is frequently accused of making unnecessary changes as any other long-running comic, complete with a [[SpinoffBabies Spinoff]] [[NotAllowedToGrowUp Teenagers]] manga, there was once a good in-universe example: Penadinho (in English, ''Bug-a-Boo'') stars various stock monsters. One comic had the title character, a BedsheetGhost, coming by his FrankensteinsMonster friend, Frank, who is lamenting how the creature of ''Film/MaryShelleysFrankenstein'' looked. Then Frank reminds Bug-a-Boo of ''Film/Ghost1990''. Later two other characters, a vampire and a werewolf, complain about ''Film/{{Wolf}}''.

** Another, even more widely accepted change with Glomgold is his nationality. He was originally South African. However, foreign comics (and ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'') had him living in Duckburg and never refer to his origins (or, when he did, he was said to be Scottish like Scrooge). The one thing Barks used consistently whenever he used Glomgold was the fact that the character was South African. A few AscendedFanboy[=s=], such as Creator/DonRosa, have since restored him to his original roots from the 1990's onwards.

** Paperinik (who became Phantom Duck or the Duck Avenger in the USA, depending on the translations), Donald Duck's secret superheroic identity, was originally [[GrayAndGrayMorality a self-righteous vigilante who mainly used his secret identity to punish Scrooge or Gladstone for what they put the normal Donald through]]. Due to MoralGuardians intervening, Paperinik quickly became [[TheyFightCrime a crime-figthing hero]], but many an Italian fan thinks back with fondness to the first "evil" Paperinik storyline.

'''Note''': This article lists examples which take place within fandoms, mostly involving over-reaction about minor changes. It's '''not''' about the opinion of Wiki/TVTropes as to whether a change is for the worse. [=TVTropes=] doesn't have opinions.

* While Brazilian comic ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' is frequently accused of making unnecessary changes as any other long-running comic, complete with a [[SpinoffBabies Spinoff]] [[NotAllowedToGrowUp Teenagers]] manga, there was once a good in-universe example: Penadinho (in English, ''Bug-a-Boo'') stars various stock monsters. One comic had the title character, a BedsheetGhost, coming by his FrankensteinsMonster friend, Frank, who is lamenting how the creature of ''Film/MaryShelleysFrankenstein'' looked. Then Frank reminds Bug-a-Boo of ''Film/{{Ghost}}''. Later two other characters, a vampire and a werewolf, complain about ''Film/{{Wolf}}''.

* The ComicBook/New52 relaunch got "They changed it now it sucks" backlash ''before release''.
** As noted by coverage at the San Diego Comic Con, this was mostly due to bad advertising where the main blurbs are "see, we're going back to how it used to be" (aggravating contemporary fans, who weren't reading when it was ''how it used to be'') and not giving out details people actually wanted that weren't very spoiler-oriented (Was [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] still Robin in his past? What happens to [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]]? Did you really just say Ma and Pa Kent are ''both'' dead? Does [[Franchise/TheFlash Wally West]] exist at all? Why does this feel all Elseworlds-ish?? Etc.)
** Changes to ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} get a lot of this. Barbara Gordon being miraculously uncrippled and deaged while wiping the other Batgirls from history was this. Of course her being crippled in the first place got much the same reaction years prior.

* ''ComicBook/SupermanBrianMichaelBendis'' was met with intense backlash when he revealed that he'd be aging Jon up to 17. Not only did it skip over interesting CharacterDevelopment for DC's newest and most popular KidAppealCharacter, it aged him ahead of his best friend [[Characters/{{Robin}} Damian]], and the circumstances for it are incredibly contrived (it involves Jon trusting his grandfather Jor-El, who had tried to plunge all of Earth into chaos a scant few months ago). Worse still, the notion of having a teenage Superboy again is entirely redundant, as Bendis brought back Conner Kent in ''[[ComicBook/YoungJustice2019 Young Justice]]'', which Bendis is also penning.
* The ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes going from traveling back in time to meet Clark Kent because he was their inspiration and inviting him to spend a day in their time, to the Legion recruiting Jon Kent because he was the United Planets' inspiration and want him in the Legion because they think they ''need'' him in ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes2020'' has been met with criticism. It makes the Legionnaires come across as genuinely selfish and inconsiderate to the fact Jon spent five years being traumatized throughout time and space and he still hasn't been given a chance to stop and breathe. Contrast to the original Legionnaires, who only invited Clark to join as a way to say thank you for being their hero and ended up proving beneficial because it helped both sides become better heroes. It doesn't help that Jon technically didn't ''do'' anything, yet the Legion acts like he's the equivalent of Space Jesus.

* The main issue with Malibu's attempt at a ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' [[ComicBook/MalibuComicsStreetFighter comic]]. They took so many liberties with the franchise's canon (including killing Ken - who, keep in mind, is one of the main characters of the franchise - in the ''second issue'') that Creator/{{Capcom}} ''literally stepped in and asked them to stop publishing it''.

* ''ComicBook/BrianMichaelBendisSuperman'' was met with intense backlash when he revealed that he'd be aging Jon up to 17. Not only did it skip over interesting CharacterDevelopment for DC's newest and most popular KidAppealCharacter, it aged him ahead of his best friend [[Characters/{{Robin}} Damian]], and the circumstances for it are incredibly contrived (it involves Jon trusting his grandfather Jor-El, who had tried to plunge all of Earth into chaos a scant few months ago). Worse still, the notion of having a teenage Superboy again is entirely redundant, as Bendis brought back Conner Kent in ''[[ComicBook/YoungJustice2019 Young Justice]]'', which Bendis is also penning.

* The initial reaction to Creator/BrianMichaelBendis' controversial revamp of the ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' franchise, where he killed off longtime members ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, [[ComicBook/AntMan Ant-Man]], and ComicBook/TheVision, and had Scarlet Witch go insane. The subsequent decision to add characters like Franchise/SpiderMan, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, Echo, ComicBook/SpiderWoman, ComicBook/JessicaJones, [[ComicBook/LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]] and [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]] to the team was also controversial amongst many old-school purists. However, Bendis' revamp of the franchise proved massively successful, at least from a financial standpoint.

* ''ComicBook/TheNextBatmanSecondSon'' got flack for retconning that Lucius Fox, who was originally one of the few people in Gotham Batman could trust, was a distant father and [[spoiler:used an ArmyOfLawyers to help his son Jace avoid jail time for accidentally killing someone in a hit-and-run as part of Jace's backstory]] and in the present, Lucius becoming a fascist by being willing to help take the steps that'd turn Gotham into the PoliceState seen in ''ComicBook/DCFutureState'', whereas for some, Lucius and his faimly having TookALevelInJerkass and turning against the Batfamily after the events of ''ComicBook/TheJokerWar'' was understandable. And even then, there's fans with issues with ''that'', too.