Worst 2007 Mainstream Super Hero Comic Book Events

Of course, if I'm listing some of my favorite comic events of 2007, I have to list some of the events I hated as well.

No. 1 - Spider-Man "One More Day"

This is an absolutely assinine storyline created solely because the head of Marvel Comics, Joe Quesada, doesn't like the concept of a married Spider-Man. Never mind that the majority of readers who have responded to polls do like the concept. It's all about what Joe wants. Even the writer of the book wanted his name taken off the story - he disagreed with it that much.

Spider-Man's beloved Aunt May was shot and lies dying. Medical Science can't save her; Spidey's super-powered and mystical friends can't save her; no one can. Spider-Man is able to get into her mind and she tells him that she is ready to die.

But Mephisto (the Marvel version of the devil) offers Spidey a deal. If Spider-man will give up all traces of his marriage to Mary Jane, Mephisto will heal Aunt May....and Spider-Man does it. His whole past changes. He has now never been married to Mary Jane, the love of his life. His aunt is alive...but for how long? She's elderly, and Mephisto never promised she wouldn't get hit by a bus the next week.

How in the world can Marvel allow Spider-Man to make a deal with the devil? It's out of character, it's unfathomable. And why is there a problem with the marriage? Why not write about how interesting the marriage could be?

Of course, it's comics - anything can be reversed in a matter of months...and hopefully this will be. But right now, Joe Quesada has ruined Spider-Man.

No. 2 - Amazons Attack

DC totally destroyed the concepts of the Amazons and Queen Hippolyta with this mini-series. Hippolyta was brought back from the dead by the evil witch Circe, and was upset to hear that her daughter, Wonder Woman, was in U.S. captivity because she had killed a government official who was mind-controlling Superman. Hippolyta declares war on the U.S. and leads the Amazons into a brutal attack on Washington DC and much of the country. The Amazons slaughter innocent people, right and left. And at the end...we learn that while Circe may have darkened Hippolyta's soul and while the evil Granny Goodness (posing as Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom) definitely influenced the war, Hippolyta is still responsible for her actions. This is so totally out of character. Hopefully writer Gail Simone will be able to redeem her somehow...but it's going to take a lot of work.

No. 3 - Countdown Arena

The DC Universe is once again a multiverse (although there's a finite amount of Earths this time). The once heroic Captain Atom of Earth-1 has become the evil Monarch and he is assembling his army. He's pitting various multiverse versions of characters against each other in battles to the death.

Issue #1 pits three different versions of Batman against each other; #2 features three different Green Lanterns; #3 features three different Wonder Women; and #4 featuers three different Supermen. Along the way we also see battles amonst three different Nightshades, Flashes, Blue Beetles, Starmen/girls, and various versions of Captain Atom and other heroes.

This is fan fiction at its worst, being published by one of the Big Two. The story is mindless and boring, and destroys the potential of many of these characters to be used again.