Cringeworthy Comicbook Moments: Jessica Brings Up An Unfortunate Part of Ms. Marvel's Backstory

[espanolbot]

Possible trigger warning for discussion of rape

From the sequel to Jessica's solo series Alias, she's beginning to give birth to her and Luke Cage's baby. He feels that this is a good time to bring up her friend Carol Danver's last pregnancy, much to the discomfort of everyone of the room.





And I swear that I'm not posting this just because of that Todd Akin guy's moronic comments a few days ago.

Carol, this might not be the best time, but is your superhero outfit really the best thing to be wearing in a hospital?

And it just occured to be that getting mysteriously pregnant is something that she has in common with Power Girl, who pre-Crisis (I think) she was impregnanted by the universe for some reason (yeah, really). Since this was shortly after she slept with Hal Jordan, he naturally decided to act like an ass and start yelling at her for denying that it was his baby.

Comments

[mrstatham]

I think the 'fuck you' would have been more in keeping with Bendis' work on Alias, but given The Pulse basically ended up being a PG-13 take on Alias, we get this instead.

Edit: I mean, hell, even if it's more of a humoured 'fuck you' from Carol who knows what Jess is doing, that'd still work better.

[theflames]

These two share a love for dark humour... ? If thats not the case, then yeah, pretty messed up.

Though I've seen BFFs talk about things with similar nonchalant attitudes. Carol doesn't even seem that bothered here.

[mrstatham]

I don't know, there's that panel where she's saying 'I gave birth' and her eyes just suggest a 'why the fuck am I telling my best friend's boyfriend this' look going on.

[shadowpsykie]

yeah Fuck You would have been in keeping with thier friendship