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That issue was one of the very few books you've done where I said, "What on
earth was he thinking?"

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That's easy. At that time -- and beyond, alas -- the trend, indeed the
demand, in comics was for more and more graphic images. More violence.
More sex. More gratuitous whatnot.

I thought back to stuff I had done before, that fans remembered so vividly,
yet had no such on-camera mayhem or sexuality. Wolverine killing that
guard in the Savage Land, for instance. Jean torturing Colossus. Whatever it
was Sue did to the PsychoMan at the end of the Malice adventure.

So I decided to do an extremely "graphic" tale -- that was not graphic at all.
That left everything to the readers imaginations.

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If I remember the Superman story correctly, the furthest Barda and
Superman went was kissing. Sleez explicitly states that Superman's morality
is resisting his powers. I thought the video that Mister Miracle and Oberon
were reacting to was of Barda dancing in the sewers.

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Time and again, when I was still doing conventions, people would come up
to my table to ask what "really" happened in that issue. My reply was
usually some variant on "If I'd wanted you to know, I would have shown you."

And, you know, if I had shown it all -- whatever "it" might be -- I'll
bet hardly anyone would remember that issue today!

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Ha!  Hilarious.  Gotta love the guys at CRACKED.
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Regarding that Wanderers story, at least now I know the possible inspiration for that bad Star Trek Voyager episode where Tom Paris breaks the Warp 9 barrier and turns into a salamander...

Kinda funny how in SF/Fantasy it's easier for established characters to have sex when transformed into different creatures...

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The Ms. Marvel story is creepy on so many levels. I'm not sure creepy is even an adequate word.
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I always felt JB tastefully avoided any explicitness, but successfully alluded to the offstage unsavory activities (the way JB drew Barda, who could've blamed Superman, anyway). 

Ghad-DAMN!  I coulda' sworn I bought The Wanderers for as long as it ran, but I'll be damned if I remember any dino-sex (velocirapture?).  Must've completely blocked it out of my mind.

Ass-tro Boy?!?  Jeezus!

Never liked that Ms. Marvel-rape storyline; glad she finally reamed out the World's Mightiest Pack of Assholes.

The #1 pick reminds me of a joke about the rich woman with the world's biggest vagina; she holds a contest to find the man with the world's biggest penis (naturally).  She narrows (?) it down to three individuals, and tells them to come back in a week, at which time she'll make her decision.

The first contestant, not wanting to take any chances of losing, goes to this doctor who advertised guaranteed size increase with his experimental formula.  He says, "Doc, ya gotta give me somethin' ta make my dick bigger!"  The doctor hands him a bottle of pills and tells him, "Take one every day, and at the end of the week, you'll see results."  The grateful guy thanks the doctor and leaves.

The second contestant goes to the same doctor, who gives him a bottle and instructs him to take one pill per week, and he'll see results at the end of the month.  He, too, thanks him and leaves.

Of course, the third contestant makes his way to the same doctor, and receives a bottle of pills, and is cautioned to take one a month.  He thanks him and leaves.

The first one gets home, and thinks to himself, I'll take the whole bottle at once and speed up the process.  The second thinks and does likewise.  So does the third.

A week later, they all converge at the lady's house, at which point she commands them to whip 'em out.  Number one brandishes his "weapon", and she appraises it with a gasp.  Number two unzips and it springs forth, and she is visibly staggered.  Then she approaches Number three, who has not yet produced his member.  Hands on hips, she impatiently demands, "Well?".

He goes to th window, opens it, and , putting his fingers in his mouth, whistles and yells, "Bring it in, Harry!"

Ya hadda be there.

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How could they not mention Terra and Deathstroke?
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Er… yeah… I guess………
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I've never read that Ms Marvel story. I wonder if it made sense in the actual comic ...

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Sex in comics.  What a concept!

   I do recall some pretty graphic images, but I don't think a lot of creepiness was inspired by them.  The one which immediately springs to mind was the one in that 1980s Thor annual where Gaia was getting it on with some entity called the Demiurge in order to sire a champion with which to drive all the Elder Gods (like Cython) off of the Earth.  One look at that panel was enough to make me blush, but I had no idea what that was supposed to be until I was old enough to view my first real porn tape...

Woo.

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How could they not mention Terra and Deathstroke?

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Next time they'll make a top ten ...

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I've never read that Ms Marvel story. I wonder if it made sense in the actual comic ...



Wasn't Avengers annual 10, Rogue's first appearance, Claremont's response to what he thought was a horrible mishandling of Ms Marvel?



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