Top Ten Most Overrated (And Disappointing) Comic Events By Wills

If you're a comic book fan as of recent, and have kept up with the trends being set for us, you've likely fallen victim to some horrendous schlop being, almost literally, crammed down your throat year after year. Given the fact that Super Hero movies are all the rage now and that most Comics publishing companies seem to be focused on capitalization over quality of work, in the last five years alone we've watched our "Heroes" fall victim to some sad circumstances were, if we had been in charge, they'd never have seen the light of day. For those of you who have fallen prey to jumping on the comic book band wagon after you just saw it's corresponding flick, here's your "Must Avoid" list. If you decide to disobey, read at your own peril, otherwise, spread the good word you've stumbled upon here.

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DC Comics Final Crisis

It honestly hurts me so much to have witnessed this comics event. It was billed as the Crisis to end all Crisis' in the DC Universe. Headed by alleged genius and personal nemesis Grant Morrison, (Remember him? He wrote the bad Batman story.) Final Crisis is a compilation of DC characters and stories stretching back to the sixties. It's buildup, the 52 issue weekly series "Countdown" made us believe a lot of terrible things were at work, and that Darkseid was going to be a major villain, but there was definitely a bigger, badder villain in waiting. There wasn't. It was Darkseid the whole time. Also, characters were turned evil by hearing some equation that they spoke and I could go on for days. It's plain old bad. Here's how Batman "died." Darkseid shot him with his Omega beams. There's that word again, Omega. If it ever pops up in comics, chances are it's not going to be promising.

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Image United

Image comics decided to make a crossover event story starring their biggest named characters, headed by their original creators. The result is not good. The villain's name is "Omega Spawn" if that helps.

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SpiderMan Brand New Day

After the events of Spider-Man: One More Day, comes this...a releasing of Amazing Spider-Man three times a month. Every story is chalked full of bad writing and stories that plunge the web slinger into things that really don't matter. Aunt May marries J. Jonah Jameson's dad, whereas good ol' JJJ becomes the Mayor of New York, and a drug addict injects animal like DNA into him thinking it's drugs and becomes a villain and Norman Osborne is back again and Harry is alive and Peter has no friends and it goes on and on and on. These are the stories that made me stop buying the Amazing Spider-Man period. And I've been reading him since I was six.

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Marvel Comics Secret Invasion

So, a lot of Marvel characters may actually be aliens!!!!!!! But you don't know who's real and who is a Skrull!!!! It reads much like an M. Night Shyamalan movie.

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Captain America: Reborn

Just bad. Captain America died a few years back after Civil War. And they brought him back in, probably, the exact same way they'll bring back Batman. Terribly.

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Batman RIP

If trying to kill Captain America weren't enough, DC decided to try their hand at "shocking" the world too by killing Batman. Needless to say it's God awful and makes no sense, thanks to comics "Superstar" Grant Morrison, who's only really a Superstar in his own mind, as he constantly tries to write like Alan Moore and inspire us to believe that the comic book world actually does exist. (And I'm not joking, he really does believe this.) Skip this please. Why publishers think they can kill monumental heroes and then bring them back is beyond me. It's inevitable, and the return is always a big let down, as one of our other list items suggests.

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Transformers All Hail Megatron

Some stories start out so great, you can barely contain your excitement. Especially for smaller publishers like IDW here, and their Transformers titles. Sometimes its really cool when the villain wins one, much as we were made to believe here, but then, inexplicably, the heroes just sort of appear and save everything. The dead one comes back to life without reason and...well you get the rest.

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DC Comics 52

In the aftermath of its eventful "Infinite Crisis", which wasn't too bad, DC gave us this. A weekly series, that's right weekly, a new issue every week for, you guessed it, 52 weeks. 52 became so convoluted and went back on a lot of good promises created in Infinite Crisis that was just painful to observe. A lot of great characters perished to be replaced by people you don't care about. If this weren't bad enough, DC then, the following two years, released two more series that were weekly for 52 weeks, titled "Countdown" and "Trinity". But that's a different story altogether.

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SpiderMan One More Day

Spider-Man must choose between staying in love and married to Mary Jane, or letting Aunt May live. I won't spoil it (sort of) but Aunt May is pretty old and...she'd understand if Peter picked his loving, adoring, doting, gorgeous wife over her right? Right? Sigh.

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Marvel Comics Civil War

Many of you likely read this story because Marvel advertised it so much, that even CNN was broadcasting stories about it and its aftermath, the Death of Captain America. Well, ignore any positive buzz. It's took nine long months for this story to finish in which, at the last issue, no ground was made whatsoever to accomplish anything. Instead, everyone just sighed and realized how much Marvel loves trying to base themselves in reality, ripping us from our escapist joy of comic book reading pleasure.

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