More Janda, Superboys, Toad learns a very special lesson and Spider-man's Web o' Love!

[auggie18]

Got requests for more Jean and Wanda and more Jean and Wanda babies, so this was more or less inevitable. 

I originally had Nate Grey in the third panel too, but then it got sorta space issue-y.


Wanda missed a lot of her kids' lives, seeing as they got all, I don't know, retroactively reincarnated? We know Wiccan has new parents and two little brothers we never see, but what about Speed? Does he have a family he got retconned into? Where is he living now that he's a fugative? 


Anyway, Wanda missed a lot and being the mother of a teenager is a lot different from being the mother of a baby, particular if that teenager doesn't live with you. 

And no, Wanda isn't going to turn the boys back into babies. But, speaking of Billy and Tommy being babies...

Really, Toad? You didn't understand that pregnant women gain weight? Particularly when they're pregnant with twins? Way to be a dick. I'm not going to feel sorry for you anymore when everyone kicks you around in WatXM.

This is also why I have trouble with the whole "Wanda just imagined the babies up" thing. She was, y'know, pregnant.



Man, been forever since I did a Superboys piece. I'm actually a big fan of Kon's new outfit, even if it is a bit evil looking.


I really loved the family dynamic that Superman had for about fifteen seconds. It sucks that status quo is God, because it feels like there was a lot more they could've done with the Super Family, particularly after Kon came back from the dead. (Also, how did they explain the fact that Lois and Clark's shiny new son just suddenly disappeared?) 

Yeah, you especially can't live with them if you sell your marriage to the devil. Didn't know Peter got turned down by Mary Jane once before. Neat, they should've stuck with that instead having him miss the wedding. 

Comments

[mrstatham]

I love how Peter's in the middle of that image full of attractive women with that shit-eating face, as if to say "And I was the nerd in high school! Fucking suck it, Thompson!"

[arilou_skiff]

Although Flash dated a significant number of those women too.

[espanolbot]

And one of them was married when Peter slept with them.

[mastermahan]

Let's see - Flash has dated Liz Allen, Betty Brant, Gwen Stacy, Mary Jane, and the Black Cat. Honestly, that's a bit creepy how much overlap is there.

[jaybee3]

This is why I never bought Marvel's reasoning that marrying MJ made Peter "too old" (because no one marries in their 20s anymore) or made him no longer the Everyman Marvel painted him as. Peter was never a real "normal" guy, he's a genius level IQ, has connections and frienships from everyone to the FF to the Hulk to Daredevil. As not only dated/lived with (even in Marvel's post-OMD continuity) a super-model, but has dated Ms. Marvel and Black Cat and pretty much every single girl he dated (excluding Carlie Cooper since I still have no idea what she's supposed to look like) is either an 8,9, or 10 on the gorgeous scale. Hugh Hefner would be jealous of Peter Parker. Peter is in no way like the normal average shmo even the current version. I wish Marvel would just give up on that line.

[mrstatham]

Absolutely. I absolutely agree. Peter's thing might've been that he was 'one of us' back in the high school days when Stan was writing him, but he's long since grown out of that. It says a lot that Marvel tried severing all his connections to teams and the like and yet Spidey's already back in with the New Avengers and has actually joined the FF. So.. Yeah. I don't buy Marvel's argument either. Plenty of comics fans are married, plenty more are in permanent relationships. Peter being the everyman of the MU carries about as much weight as any Marvel character being 'more relateable' than the competition over at DC, frankly.

[gerardotejada]

I have many friends that married in their 20, people do that when they realise marring and having children are two way different things.

Peter is just another average joe, all that other things were done so he could be special instead of beign the street level hero he was.

Marring Peter was something that made him a little more everyman, instead of beign the "allways single" man. But I guess writers didnt want to write about marriage.

[crabby_lioness]

Toad was an ass at times, but he seems to be going through an "older, trying to be wiser but it's not really working but at least trying not to embarrass myself by making the same mistakes over again" phase. Oddly enough, it's working for him.

[crabby_lioness]

Toad is the new "middle-aged whiny Country & Western song cliche"!

[espanolbot]

Only British... which makes sense, as middle aged to older people are the only people over here that like C&W.

[bewareofgeek]

*sniff* I liked Chris Kent.

[tammy_moore]

Poor Gwen doesn't even get a sentence of her own? That seems unfair.

[sir_mikael]

Well I'm pretty sure she's the only dead one.

[mrstatham]

Her distinguishing feature at the time was that she was dead. This was, after all, before the Sins Past nonsense.

[espanolbot]

"Dead, impregnated by Peter's friend's dad's superfast sperm."

Man, the poor girl never was treated with the most dignity was she? First Peter accidentally killed her by stopping her fall too quickly, then they reveall that she lost her virginity to the man who'd eventually kill her, just to give Peter something ELSE to angst about.

At least with Bucky and Jason they were treated with a certain about dignity when they were dead, they didn't attempt to insert a "Yeah, and the Baron Zemo molested him extensively" bit in there or something.

[fraxinus_amer]

Not yet!

But the day is young.

[fredneil.livejournal.com]

Man, the poor girl never was treated with the most dignity was she?

That started as soon as Stan Lee stopped writing the book. It was obvious that Conway disliked the character and he turned her into a whiny idiot before killing her off. Stan Lee's version was weepy and overemotional (which isn't that implausible a characterization for a teenager) and a bit passive-aggressive, but she could also be fairly intelligent and capable of standing up to anyone. I don't think Conway gave her similar moments to balance out the whiny idiot ones.

[auggie18]

She gets her very own cloud, though.

[goggle_kid]

Dang it... I still want a Gloria Grant/Peter Parker romance story!

[arilou_skiff]

Me too. I always felt that was a huge wasted opportunity.

[silverzeo]

Oh man, if Toad told Wanda that int he "Evolution" Universe, Oh-ho-ho, he would be SO microwaved...

Yeah, SB does look like a Viral Tron Character in that get up.

Hey, be glad that put off that final issue to the arc for almost a year later, so we could get to see Chris form a bond with Tim. Though if I had the ability, I would bring him back, and maybe have him bring one of Zod's 3 evil dogs back with him to turn into a hero dog. Cause it just seem like an "woobie" overload thing.

Plus that vendor... as soon as Chris took off those glasses, he knew who he was... and instantly forgot it when he put them back on... Earth must be as senile as that one old lady from "My Name Is Earl" whom Earl's con-friend took advantage of.

[remial]

what the hell is toad wearing?

is that an iron man suit?

[sir_mikael]

Pretty sure it's something he either found on The Stranger's ship (or was it planet?) or something he put together after having learned a bit of The Stranger's technology. Way back Toad and Magneto got kidnapped by the super-powerful alien, Magneto ditched him while he escaped and Toad had some time to explore Stranger tech.

[his_spiffynesss]

Since Toad was in the Misfits, and Squirrel Girl was part of the Misfits . We need those two hanging out together.

[sir_mikael]

That would be amazing. Hopefully he didn't fall for her and she was just his perky unbeatable buddy.

[espanolbot]

Hey foul, 3D Man doesn't fit with the rest's animal themes!

[sir_mikael]

Ha! Summers kids and Wanda zanyness.

Who's the kid with Mon-El and Kon btw?

[auggie18]

That's the ever lovable Chris Kent, son of Zod and adopted son of the Lane-Kents! He got about one, maybe two storylines before getting thrown in the phantom zone. Then they let him out and aged him up. Then they un-aged him up and threw him back in.

[espanolbot]

Got a nice aknowledgement in Paul Cornell's Action Comics run though, with Superman ignoring the newly god-empowered Luthor to try and save Chris from the hole in the Phantom Zone Lex just made.

[deepspaceartist]

Your art is really good, but I think you should do something different with black haired characters. It looks like Mon-el and Superboy have gone fully grey haired.

[shadowpsykie]

"WANDA I WAS JUST KIDDING!"
love that look

"Mom i'm trapped in the time stream can you pick me up" HILARIOUS.

you have some of the best/funniest panels ever :D

[shadowpsykie]

you should seriously do a strip featuring Wanda and Jean taking all their kids out :D im sure it would be hilarious :D must i request it? :D

[halloweenjack]

This is also why I have trouble with the whole "Wanda just imagined the babies up" thing. She was, y'know, pregnant.

False pregnancy is a real thing. It was a bad idea for other reasons, though, most notably that it seems to be part of a long chain of characters retconned by John Byrne (or re-retconned, in some cases) for no valid storytelling reason, but simply because they didn't fit his idea of how the character should be.

[dr_archeville]

Wow, I must be really out of the loop -- they're saying she imagined the whole "had two babies with Vision" thing? Agatha Harkness was her midwife, and I think Dr Strange had a hand (no pun intended) in the delivery -- did they imagine that, too?

[gamerguy]

The same way that apparently, despite being around Dr Strange for years, the words 'Wanda' and 'Chaos Magic' were never mentioned with him in the room.

[bariman]

Didn't it turn out that the Dr. Strange that claimed there was no such thing as magic was yet another Wanda-induced hallucination?

[glprime]

"I really loved the family dynamic that Superman had for about fifteen seconds."

Me too, friend. Me too :(

[biod]

Same here. Did Conner and Chris ever meet?

[bariman]

I think they were on-panel together a couple times during the New Krypton thing, but I'm not aware of how much actual interaction they had.

[maseiken]

When the heck did Toad have a robo-suit? Is this a whole *thing* I missed?

[eyz]

Bwahahaha!
Lovin' these XD