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*** Then Wonder Woman # 7 came out. {{spoiler|Every thirty years the Amazons would have sex with men then kill them. They keep the girls that they conceive and give the boys to Hephaestus. Some were angry about how barbaric it made the Amazons look, while others [http://brikit.tumblr.com/post/19754030444/unpopular-opinions-wonder-woman-edition praised] it for going back to it's mythological roots}}
* Anything written by Scott Lobdell. Be it Starfire's sexuality, [[It Makes Sense in Context|Tim Drake and Bart Allen fighting over a sweater]], or waffles; there will be wank. You either think he's okay, or he's the [[Rob Liefeld]] of comic book writers.
* The ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' spinoff ''[[New Mutants|New X-Men]]'' is something of a [[Cult Classic]], never reaching astronomical sales numbers but maintaining an enduring fanbase all the same, and it had two diametrically-opposed runs in its time: the first, by Nunzio DeFilippis and Christine Weir, was essentially a lighthearted high school drama, and the followup run by Craig Kyle and Chris Yost was a [[Darker and Edgier]] traditional superhero book. Now, you can quite easily get away with saying you liked either of these runs, but what you should ''never'' voice your opinion on is which you thought was ''better''. DeFilippis/Weir had no conflict! Kyle/Yost was gratuitously gory and insulting to fans! The title's been canceled for years and bringing up this subject is still a barrel of
* Go onto any ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' forum and bring up the comics. Sit back and watch a battle erupt over whether they're a good addition to the canon or totally screwed up and little better than glorified fanfic.
* A recent ''[[Life With Archie the Married Life]]'' story was highlighted by the marriage of Kevin Keller to his life partner. Groups such as [[Non Indicative Name|One Million Moms]] raised hell about the issue, and about the ''[[Archie]]'' comics in general. The result was a massive backfire on their part--[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|the issue sold out in record time]], and secondhand copies are being sold online for up to ten times the original price.
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