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Alhazred posted:Spider-Man: The Other Also, the entire story hinged on a supervillain with the ability to control insects being able to influence Peter because of his spider powers. 
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Random Stranger posted:And Ms. Marvel is alternating crying about being a helpless woman with angrily denouncing all men, she and Ben get launched into space. After joining the 150 mile high club, they get hit by a radiation storm and the result is that Ms. Marvel is now also rocky and orange. Since that doesn't really help differentiate the characters, Ben Grim becomes spiky like a pineapple. Didn't they get rid of her character by having her get depressed about her appearance and commit suicide by throwing herself onto the third rail of the subway? That was one of the first comics I read as a kid, and I had absolutely no idea what was going on or who this character was.
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I forget, have we talked about Animal Man, yet? So Grant Morrison takes a D-list DC hero and updates him. Does a really good job to establish a down-to-Earth hero with a wife and kids and writes some really good stories with him about the nature of narrative. A really good run, with a completed story arc that ended satisfactorily. ...and then other authors got ahold of the character. They took one look at all the meta-narrative stuff that Morrison had done and decided that Buddy Baker's book was the place to dump all the weird or edgy poo poo that wouldn't fit in elsewhere. Poor Animal Man had to deal with a multitude of completely stupid stories, including: - An abortion-themed supervillain. - Spontaneously slipping into alternate dimensions. - His son being abducted by a serial-killer uncle. - His wife getting a job in the Big City and immediately getting mugged and then sexually assaulted by a cop when she ran for help. - Forming a cult around his daughter. - Getting injected with super-AIDS by the government. I'm sure a lot of other things happened to him between those events, but it got so terrible that I was only skimming every fifth issue or so.
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