Writings and Other Things

 I've been meaning to compile this list for a while now, so here goes: generally, giving a superhero a child is a death knell, the ending of a story rather than a continuation of one. Why? Well, nobody really wants to read subplots about changing diapers or waking up at four in the morning due to crying; those things are mundane events that generally people read comics to get away from. And yet some creators can't help themselves sometimes in giving characters kids. Why? Because, after two characters get married, it's the next logical step for them. Heteronormativity says that couples need to have 2.5 children and a picket fence with a dog and a cat, but writers are generally hesitant to give a main character those things and let them stick, because the story has to keep going. There is no "The End" for these characters. So let's look at some examples and what happened after the love and marriage and a baby carriage appears. *** Scott Summers and Madelyne Pryo...

G.O.D.S.  #1   Written by Jonathan Hickman, art by Valerio Schiti, inks by Marte Gracia, letters by Travis Lanham Okay, let's get started. Page 1: Let's talk about Doctor Strange Stephen Strange first appeared in 1963 in Strange Tales #110, where he was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko (although Strange is much more Ditko than Lee, as even Lee admitted). Strange is first called the "Master of Black Magic" before he graduates into becoming the Sorcerer Supreme, Earth's first mystical line of defense. Prior to this, he was an arrogant doctor who injured his hands in a car accident and learned magic in an attempt to heal himself. And in this first page of this comic, he speaks to a brand new (to us, the reader) character called Wyn and says, "I'm too old for this ." Like Murtaugh in Lethal Weapon , Strange has been doing this for too long and is now too old for this shit. But Wyn says "No. I'm old. You're just tired. " So already we...