YMMV / Dice Man

• Audience-Alienating Premise: While there is a definite crossover between Gamebook and Comic Book fans, the series failed due to combining them in a way that failed to appeal to either demographic. The stories were too short and simple to appeal to Fighting Fantasy and other game book fans, who were used to four hundred reference adventures whereas Dice Man had adventures with as few as fifty references, while comic book fans just wanted to read the stories and not have to mess around with dice and note keeping, as well as dealing with a story that didn't read in a linear fashion.
• Complete Monster:
  • Issue #1's "House of Death": Judge Death is, as usual, presented as a maniac who desires to spread death across the world. Brought back with the dimensional generator, Judge Death used the Brotherhood of Baal to kidnap and murder hundreds of people. When Judge Dredd arrived to investigate the matter, Death sends his fellow Dark Judges after him and then tries to kill him personally, succeeding in one of the endings, after which he proudly announces his intention to slaughter the entire population of Mega-City One.
  • Issue #2's "Dragoncorpse" & Issue #4's "The Ring of Danu": Elfric is a Dev-El, who enjoys bringing death and destruction to all mortals, and especially to his Arch-Enemy, Sláine. Using an ancient dragon as his vessel, Elfric slaughtered the dwarves and destroyed their village the moment he was freed by them from a magical prison. Sending various monsters to kill and torture the remaining dwarves, Elfric accepted their offering of young women as sacrifices, gleefully devouring them. Engaging in a battle with Sláine, Elfric, in one of the endings, managed to get his hands on a magical shield, Dormath-Death's Door, which he used to unleash all the monsters from Hel upon Earth, endangering the whole world. After being defeated, Elfric tried to thwart Sláine's efforts to gain the Ring of Danu the Earth Goddess, constantly trying to torture and kill him.
  • Issue #5's "Space Zombies": General Hayg is a former Souther general who decided to pursue his own ambitions. Seeing that the war between the Southers and the Norts will never end, Hayg betrayed his own people and kidnapped the Larson family, a family of genetic clones, which he wanted to use to create an army of zombie Super Soldiers. Reducing the father of the family to a feral monster, Hayg sent him to kill Rogue Trooper when the latter arrived to his base to stop him. Openly announcing his desire to use his army of zombies to destroy both the Southers and the Norts and slaughter millions, Hayg will try to trick Rogue Trooper to surrender to him in exchange for his sparing the child of the family, and upon succeeding in one of the endings, Hayg gleefully decided to experiment on the child anyway, after he finishes torturing Rogue Trooper.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Ronald Reagan has a "sanity" score and you have to keep the score low to avoid suspicion that you are not the real Ronald Reagan. His diagnosis and eventual death from Alzheimer's disease robs this mechanic of some of its humour.

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