Eh. I love the character, but mostly he's been crap since X-Cutioner's Song/Age of Apocalypse.

Also? Smith's use of Batman in Quiver? Amazing. Mostly because it was secondary to the Ollie story he was telling.

Sharon Carter was pregnant with Steve Roger's baby once.

I think she lost it courtesy of Faustus and/or Sin?

Another one I just remembered is the early 2000's Venom series. Basically some mysterious company clones the symbiote and attaches it to some chick who really doesn't want it. In the end of the story it is absorbed by Brock's symbiote and he swings away happy that now he's doubly strong or something. Also the head of the company is some shady guy named Bob who's made out of nanobots. Nothing happens to him and he never gets mentioned again. I kind of liked that comic (Despite nanobots being involved, which is always stupid). I wish they would finish the story one day.

And then after that comic Venom went on as if nothing happened and the next thing was Toxin... which also faired very well and was clearly resolved, as we all know...

Yeah, but in truth the amount of significance is lost. It seemed like they were building up to something and then...nothing.



Toxin just came back in the new Venom series, although it's completely evil now, and is hunting Venom (Flash Thompson/Agent Venom) and is attached to Eddie Brock.

Yeah I think they were setting it up for a Apocalypse like scenario where Red Skull would inhabit Steve Rogers baby after some rapid aging (like they did on Sin)...and have a teen age Red Skull

To me the top one off hand was the Zodiac Inbetween story from the Avengers and how they were harnessing Chaos Magic....I thought the buildup at the end of Dissasembled would have revealed that SW was manipulated by them but nothing

The other one was many storylines dropped in GOTG (90s series) and especially the original concept of what they were building to with a battle between the GOTG, the Galactic Guardians and Kang and his forces

Plus they never resolved issues like Rancor/Talon's kid, the Final fate of Dr Doom and heck even the series ended on a cliffhanger (which I am sad we never got a mini series or even a one shot showing the GOTG in the Martian invasion)

Now I want a Pee-My-Pants Batman in clix

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Chasers



Battle Chsers for the win....nuff said.

Nightwing introduced a new villain who wore a business suit, constantly looked like he was an iPod commercial (occasionally actually listening to music and claiming it was music to kill to), and killed people with a laser pointer that shot a real laser and disintegrated people. We never found out about his motives or goals, despite obviously planning something. He ended up fighting Nightwing, over powering him, knocking him over the head of with a shovel and burying him alive. Nightwing spends the rest of the issue digging his way out of the grave while monologing and running out of air. Nightwing finally escapes, and then Batman is killed and Dick becomes Batman. Villain is never seen or spoken of again.

At the end of Diggle's run on Thunderbolts, he revealed the that the traitor on the team was Yelena Belova, the Black Widow. As a twist, she was actually Natasha in disguise. After Natasha and Songbird book it for safety, Norman Osborn reveals that he has the real Yelena Belova in a tube just waiting to be released. I think he did it to make Belova available for the next writer; Jeff Parker never followed up on this, however.

Jeff Parker was too busy releasing Gunna on the world!

DAMN do I want her in clix...

Here's 2 from Abnett and Lanning's Cosmic marvel stuff:

During War of Kings, Richard Rider is briefly stripped of the Nova Force, and a different Nova, Malik Tarcel, is made Nova Prime. He proceeds to get his ### beat by Gladiator and the Shi'ar torture him. While he's their prisoner, he's visited by Garthaan Saal, who once had all the Nova Force, but went crazy from it, and was supposed to be dead. Never seen again.

Also during War of Kings, half of the Guardians of the Galaxy get dragged to the future, then start bouncing from one reality to another. All of them are aging (or deaging) at different rates, except Jack Flag, who is gradually fading away. jack's told that he's destined to die saving the Multiverse. Again, nothing ever comes of it, and I'm not sure if that was because Kang got involved or they ran out of time.