10. Rick Remender
Marvel ComicsThe inspiration for this article came originally from the #firerickremender campaign that has been setting the social media multiverse into a bit of a tizzy these past couple of days. The contention over the current Captain America writer turned out to be completely unfounded, based on a misreading of the most recent issue of the title - wherein The Falcon gets drunk and sleeps with Jet Black Zola, who people were claiming is 14 when she's actually - has since been widely discredited by industry professionals and other fans alike. Which is kind of a shame, because it means a lot of the crappy things that Remender has written are going to be fobbed off as similar Tumblr-born moral panics. Formerly an animator who worked on the likes of the Iron Giant, Rememender made his break into comic books on indie titles like Fear Agent and, um, XXXombies (how do you even pronounce that?) before getting talent scouted by Marvel. Since then he's become the lead writer on the Captain America book and headlined Uncanny Avengers, a team with a 50/50 X-Men and Avengers split which has been its own source of contention. Besides the hacky, unnecessarily violent "twists" Remender is so found of, both Cap and Uncanny Avengers have also seen some inherently problematic parts. Like in Avengers when he preached racial assimilation in the form of Havok rejecting the designation of "mutant", all the more dodgy when you consider the X-Men's use as a Civil Rights analogue. The fun, jaunty Captain America has meanwhile been
bogged down with misogyny, racism, and just plain bad writing. For these crimes, Rememnder, we banish you. May god have mercy on your soul.