Source: Norwestcomicsgames.com
5. Trouble
Oh, God, why am I making myself do this? Most of the books on this list are funny-bad, but this one is painfully bad.
Have you ever wanted to read an ‘80s sex comedy starring Uncle Ben, Aunt May, and Richard and Mary Parker? Yeah, I also said no to that question. But it exists!
One summer in UNDISCLOSED DECADE, brothers Richard and Ben Parker go away to work at a resort, where they meet best friends May and Mary. And then they screw around a lot. This is a weird, weird, comic book that confuses me with its existence. And it makes me vastly uncomfortable. But if it were just weird and not psychotically tone deaf and misguided, it wouldn’t be on this list, so let’s just get this one out of the way.
At the end of the story, May sleeps with Richard and gets pregnant. She contemplates getting an abortion in one of the LEAST SENSITIVE DEPICTIONS OF THAT PARTICULAR COMPLICATED ISSUE OF ALL TIME, but decides against it. She eventually is convinced to let Mary and Richard raise the child as their own: a boy named Peter. Yes, that’s right, Aunt May is secretly Peter Parker’s mom, or she would be, if this hadn’t been immediately forgotten about and never made canon. Ugh.
