Comics promote incest!!

[Guy Gardener]

EDIT: I'm surprised no one's brought up the pretty screwy West/Allen/Thawne line. Yikes!

Bring it up already.

I remember being excited about this way back, but I can't quite connect the dots right now.

 

[Christopher]

So I guess that "too-much info" panel of Superman exists because the writers felt the need to explain why Superman wasn't banging his underage cousin. They had to justify that to the audience...

How times have changed...

No, actually it makes a sort of sense. I mean, if they're the only two Kryptonians left, then it's natural to ask the question of why they don't marry and have kids.

Although in a case like that, where the very survival of their species is at stake, realistically you'd expect them to make an exception to any sort of rule about cousins marrying. But of course the Comics Code would never allow that, so it was necessary to impose the conceit that their allegiance to Kryptonian law trumped everything else, even the perpetuation of their species.

 

[Trent Roman]

^ Unless our Kryptonian visitors have invulnerable genes as well, you can't create a viable population from only two individuals. First-generation cousin matings are not generally problematic, but if their kids wanted to keep a 'purebreed' Kryptonian line going, they'd have no choice but to mate with each other, at which point inbreeding depression kicks in hard, particularly as their parents were already related.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[captcalhoun]

^after that, i just have to post this:

 

[Turtletrekker]

Oh my.

 

[The Old Mixer]

Superman tried to hit on his Great Great... yadda yadda blah blah blah... Great Granddaughter while hanging out with the legion. Aparant she looked so much like Lois that he couldn't hlp himself.

MUCH later she turned out to be a one of the evil Robots trying to take over the universe called the Manhunters, so no foul after all.

It was Superboy, and he didn't know Lois yet (or he may have met her at camp according to one old story, but he didn't know she'd grow up to become the love of his life), so it's understandable that he'd be attracted to her...especially as she was sporting one sweet nothing of a Grell-drawn costume that made me feel all funny even though I was only about 6 when I first read the story. The deal with her being a Manhunter was added post-Crisis to explain her very existence, since she didn't jibe with post-Crisis Superman continuity.

 

[zakkrusz]

you know...i have this link....

and it's in Japanese, I know...

actually it's translated to english

Anyway, if you want real incenst I suggest looking up Koi Kaze. Darn good series and handles it tastefully but still disturbing as hell.

 

[Nerys Myk]

#1 Rule for marrying your brother/sister.

If your kid is normal then raise them well, if they come out all deformed and flippery put them in the river in a gunny sack and never speak of it again, but do try again to make more incest babies after taking out the genetic garbage.

Especially if your name is Cobblepot.

 

[comsol]

Superman tried to hit on his Great Great... yadda yadda blah blah blah... Great Granddaughter while hanging out with the legion. Aparant she looked so much like Lois that he couldn't hlp himself.

MUCH later she turned out to be a one of the evil Robots trying to take over the universe called the Manhunters, so no foul after all.

It was Superboy, and he didn't know Lois yet (or he may have met her at camp according to one old story, but he didn't know she'd grow up to become the love of his life), so it's understandable that he'd be attracted to her...especially as she was sporting one sweet nothing of a Grell-drawn costume that made me feel all funny even though I was only about 6 when I first read the story. The deal with her being a Manhunter was added post-Crisis to explain her very existence, since she didn't jibe with post-Crisis Superman continuity.

Superboy 217 - June 1976 - first comic I ever bought.

 

[Sephiroth]

^after that, i just have to post this:

Meredith?

 

[Stevil2001]

You don't read Wolverine Origins?

No.

My Alpha Flight is the original John Byrne run.