The Evil That Men Do was pretty terrible.
+1 on that, and on new 52. To elaborate on nu52, I'd say it's that most of it is garbage, and the good stuff is good because it could have been a good story no matter what. No change made in my opinion was worth the overhaul, when good stories like Rotworld, Court of Owls and the entire run of Batwoman under Williams ignored that anything had changed. Demon Knight and I, Vampire, two of my favourite series that sort of dropped off after a while, both needed no new fresh world to tell them, but sadly would not have been told without the restructure.
But what is worst is the new 52's attempts at "diversification". They felt a prominent gay character was needed, so they did the cop-out of making Alan "not the real Green Lantern" Scott (a favourite character of mine) gay, in the process eliminating a gay character (his son)! Scandal Savage of the Secret Six no longer exists, characters from Checkmate like Jessica Midnight and Thomas Jagger are gone. The cast of the story becomes massively white-washed for the sake of streamlining, but the attempts at diversity after the fact are token at best.
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