God is Dead

God is Dead is a comic book series created by Johnathan Hickman and Mike Costa, published by Avatar Press. The series follows gods of various religions battling for control over the world.

Why it Sucks

 * 1) A rather cliche plot that been done over and over again, with gods fighting each other. There's a whole lot of cliche storylines in them like people having to become gods to fight gods, which makes no sense.
 * 2) The gods themselves are very unlikeable and portrayed as vicious killers, which goes directly against their characterization in most of their mythology. A particular depiction being of the hindu gods, which is quite offensive to the hindu religion.
 * 3) Awful dialogue wherein characters don't react realistically to any of the situations in front of them.
 * 4) Pretty much every character is boring, violent, spouts random religious exposition, and backstabbing for all the wrong reasons.
 * 5) While it can be understandable in a way how people lose their minds when they learn gods exist, they still act in the least rational way possible and end up getting a great deal of humanity killed off through their own stupidity. For example, when POTUS commits suicide (for unknown reasons), an officer acts with surprise for like 2 seconds and then immediately orders the US army to fire nukes, despite them DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO THE GODS EARLIER.
 * 6) WAY too much exposition in both the narration and the dialogue, which makes the comic exhausting to read.
 * 7) Often has some rather anti-religious undertones, not only with the depiction of the aforementioned gods, but also with their worshippers. It even depicts Christian gods, Jesus Christ, and their followers poorly.
 * 8) The story moves too fast and too slow at the same time, with major events being over way too quickly and plenty of characters you're supposed to like getting killed off way too early, and so on.
 * 9) There's even a Steven Hawking knockoff of a character who's really just there for a few issues.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Great artwork throughout.
 * 2) Awesome gory violence that never really feels mean-spirited, unlike Crossed. If you read it not for the story, but the action, you might have fun.
 * 3) Fight scenes are awesome.
 * 4) Johnathan Hickman made much better comics, like The Nightly News and East of West.