10 Embarrassing Comic Book Moments Writers Had To Explain

10. Spider-Woman's Origin

Any fan of Spider-Woman knows the humorous behind the scenes info of Marvel creating her simply to have a Spider-Woman character before anyone else could get their hands on such a marketable concept. However, speed does not equal quality, so when they brought on Archie Goodwin to write up her origin, Spider-Woman's original backstory was... weird. Weird and wrong. Just all kinds of wrong.

Her original backstory? She was a literal spider, whose DNA then went through a round of musical chairs courtesy of the High Evolutionary, who has a bad habit of doing this sort of thing to animals all over the place.

Why Archie Goodwin thought this was a good idea is anyone's guess, but never underestimate what a writer is capable of bringing into this world when under the kind of time crunch Mr. Goodwin must have been. In any event, in literally the very next issue - written by the incomparable Marv Wolfman - it was revealed that Jessica was lied to about this being her backstory, and the series moved on.

And frankly, thank god.