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I don't think we'd really had enough pre-issue discussion, but now we've got a few weeks to get really in depth about what might happen.
I take your point, but often comics are like what used to be known as 'marital relations', don't you find? In the sense of the wild, crazy anticipation being so much sweeter than the tawdry end?
That said, the last time anyone tried to take my clothes off without being paid minimum wage (and not a penny more!)was during a key-swapping party, in the experimental 70's, so I may not be the ideal 'go-to' person about this.
The idea of gratification, on any level, was not something we were raised with, you see.
Perhaps people expect the world on a platter these days, and are justified in doing so, who knows?
But aren't those of us who are resigned to a life of quiet, ennervating disappointments entited to our dreams? And our nightmares?
Either way, I would be surprised if Mark Millar decided to explore the conjugal possibilities that are implicit, perhaps, in the basic idea of the Fantastic Four. They've been up in space and returned different, so no one understands them. What would Alan Moore make of them, one wonders? 'Flame On!' 'It's Clobbering Time!' and so on? The Invisible Girl/Woman. Mr Fantastic, who can perform unnatural feats, with his flesh.
He'd have a field day, wouldn't he?
Specifically, he'd have the kind of field day that Mark Millar can't allow himself, at this stage in his career. The minute one raises the issue of relations, unchristian or otherwise, in the Fantastic Four, this sort of ... abyss, really, opens up. And it's a darkness that Mark Millar will not be going anywhere near, I suspect.
If the villains (Dr Doom? The Mole Man?) were into Mark Millar's apparent fave adult crime/narrative device, they'd have to deal with the consequences, all right, but then again, so would Mark Millar. There'd be a scandal in the papers. |
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