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50. "Maybe Next Year" Peter Parker: Spider-Man #33 (2001)

In this adorable tale by Paul Jenkins, Mark Buckingham and Wayne Faucher, we see how Peter Parker spends the anniversary of Uncle Ben's death every year. While he allows his beloved Aunt May visit Ben's grave by herself to give her some privacy, he attends a New York Mets game. We see, through flashbacks, that Ben and Peter had been going to one Mets game every years since Peter was a boy. At that first game, Peter was overjoyed at how much fun it was, but then the Mets blew a three-run lead in the ninth inning. Ben, however, explained to Peter that you're always going to lose sometimes in life, it is inevitable. The losing, in fact, makes the winning feel even better when it happens. Plus, after all, maybe next year they'll win one!

However, instead every year the Mets gets creamed over and over again. Peter even gets bonked in the head one year while trying to catch a foul ball! Finally, as a teenager, Peter wants to blow off the game. Aunt May gives him a stern look and he agrees to go, but he's a real jerk to Uncle Ben on the way, until, well, something magical happened...

I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying!

49. "With Great Power Comes Great Coincidence" Deadpool #11 (1997)

In this utterly and delightfully bizarre comic book story by Joe Kelly, Pete Woods and Nathan Massengill (with original art by John Romita and modern inks by Joe Sinnott and Al Milgrom to make the changes work), Deadpool and his captive, Blind Al, get sent back in time. They land, oddly enough, in the pages of an old Stan Lee and John Romita issue of Amazing Spider-Man. Deadpool uses an image inducer to take Peter Parker's place while Blind Al disguises herself as Aunt May. They then, in effect, do MST3k style jokes about the plot of the old Amazing Spider-Man issue...

It's an astoundingly clever idea, and I'm surprised that no one has tried to do it since (heck, the current MST3K comic book doesn't even do anything like this).

48. "Ghosts" Batman: Ghosts Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special #1 (1995)

In 1993, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale did a Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special, with Scarecrow sort of rocking out to the story of the headless horseman. It was very well-received. So the next year, they came back and did another one. This time they based it on Alice Through the Looking Glass. In 1995, they returned for one more one shot, this time called "Ghosts," which was based on A Christmas Carol.

Bruce Wayne has some bad shrimp and he is then visited by a number of ghosts, starting with his father and then the ghost of the past (Poison Ivy) before he then meets the ghost of the present, who is depicted so brilliantly by Tim Sale...

This story was so great that the only way that Loeb and Sale could figure to outdo themselves was to do a YEAR-LONG Halloween story the next year, which became The Long Halloween!

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47. "Of Thee I Sing" Hitman #34 (1998)

Garth Ennis is famous in how much he is not particularly a fan of superheroes in general. He didn't grow up on superhero comics like most American writers. He grew up on war comics and stuff like that. However, one superhero that he makes a bit of an exception for is Superman and so in Hitman #34 (art by John McCrea and Garry Leach), a distraught Superman takes a breather on a Gotham City rooftop to decompress. He is shocked to find Tommy Monaghan on the rooftop, as well. The two men begin to talk and Superman reveals that he had been brought in when NASA had a little crisis with a space shuttle. He managed to save most of the crew, but one member wasn't where Superman thought he was and the man ended up dying. Superman can barely handle the guilt over it, but Tommy makes him feel better in a brilliant speech that sums up why Ennis likes Superman so much...

Of course, amusingly enough, Tommy is there to KILL that creep, but, hey, what Superman doesn't know won't hurt him, right?

46. "Another Cold Morning" Transmetropolitan #8 (1998)

Transmetropolitan was Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson and Rodney Ramos' examination of a political journalist pulled out of solitude to write again and soon he finds himself becoming a bit of a crusader against the fascist policies of the future government.

Spider Jerusalem would also often write spotlight columns on interesting people. In this column, we learn about a woman who went into cryogenics sometime in the 2000s...

However, what she didn't understand is that the ridiculous promises that were made to her in the early 21st century that the company had no intent on ever living up to, were suddenly now REALITIES far off in the future and they actually CAN bring her back to life in a new cloned body...

Of course, like Captain America in Avengers #4, Mary is a woman out of time, and we soon learn that there really is no desire by anyone in the future to have someone like Mary present in it. It's quite depressing, but hauntingly beautiful in a way, as well, as Spider can see what no one else can in Mary and he is able to bring that spirit out to the rest of us.