Sexy moments in comic books

Cafe Society
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I’m currently staying at my brother’s house, owner of . . . um . . . a lot of comic books (I’m thinking, minimum, 5K issues plus another 200+ collections). It’s been years since I spent this much time just reading and enjoying.

For instance, Captain America. Never collected or read the title when I was a kid. I was all about mutants. Yet, I knew the history, and I enjoyed the movie, so I picked up one of the collections (and was then sharply rebuked by my brother. “In my house, we read comics in the order of publication, woman!” He confiscated what I had and handed me the first volume.) But I Digress . . .

Anyways, in Captain America, there’s a moment when Shield Agent #13, Sharon Carter, and Cap get unexpected confirmation of some very good news.

Bucky is alive and in full command of his faculties.

Cap picks Sharon up, kisses her, and then there’s a moment of awkward “um, did we really just do that?”, followed by a brief “we probably shouldn’t, because it’s never worked before”, and then . . . they kiss. And it’s not just a kiss. It’s a “hell, yes, we are going to screw like minks on amphetamines and Viagra” kiss. Pent up tension, total chemistry, catharsis, with a double heaping serving of “you’re the only person in the universe who actually gets me, and you are incredible”. Mmmm-MMM!

For the record, I am a hetero female, and I’d totally do Sharon Carter. But that’s not the point. I mean, this is Captain America, so the following things are true:

  • there is no boom-chicka-wow-wow. Or William Tell Overture. Or anything cheesy, cloying, or cheap. Whatever soundtrack is playing, it is genuinely, sincerely, 100% made of sexyawesome.
  • you just know that Super Soldier Serum gave him more than muscles and endurance.
  • he’s going to leave Sharon a quivering, partially liquified gelatinous mound of satisfied womanhood. Lucky girl.
  • he’ll probably even take the wet spot. Because that’s the kind of man he is. And, oh yes, he cuddles.

So, I’m not talking about comic books with the sole purpose of titillating the reader, and I’m not talking about pin-up drawings. I’m talking about well-written (and occasionally otherwise) titles that, in the telling of their tale, had a moment, a scene, a frame, or even just a line of dialog that made you fan yourself or even take some alone time in your bunk. Romance is good; pure hot-and-bothered is better.

Would you be so kind as to share yours?

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In an issue of Marvel Comic Presents from the early 90s–Wolverine is feeling particularly grumbly and “old” and is wandering around, hunting in the Madripoor jungle(forest?) naked…wait–that’s not the sexy part. He eventually ends up at Tyger Tyger’s apartment and they share a tender moment of her wiping dried blood off his chin (from his kill earlier–he tells her it’s ketchup) the next panel is nearly in silhouette but it is clear they are engaging in some her on top throne-boning. The artist was Sam Kieth if memory serves (later famous for The Maxx series) and the panel is just expertly laid out, open balcony behind them, moon shining. Tyger straight-backed with one hand in her flowing long hair.

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There was an X-Men in the early 90’s where Cyclops walked in the bathroom while Psylocke was toweling off from a shower.

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In E-Man #9 (First Comics) there’s a scene where Nova Kane is talking to our hero and she’s wearing just an open yellow shirt and blue panties. Smokin’

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I felt Mike Grell did a good job showing the adult relationship between Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) and Dinah Lance (Black Canary).

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Given that it’s good writing you’re after, I’m curious to know who wrote (and, for that matter drew) the Captain America sequence you mention. It was his/their skill that made it all possible, after all.

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Green Lantern #84. This was during the Green Lantern/Green Arrow team up phase. There was a scene where Black Canary shows up at Green Arrow’s apartment that’s the sexiest drawing of a comic book woman I have ever seen.

It was done by Neal Adams, of course, who for my money was the greatest of all comic book artists. 90% of superhero comic book characters today are drawn as ripoffs of Adams style (though more grotesque; no one knew anatomy better). Jack Kirby was great in his own way, but few are imitating Kirby, and people have spent entire careers imitating Adams.

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IIRC, the writer was Ed Brubaker and the artist was either Steve Epting or Butch Guice.

For me, the sexiest scene was an early issue of Love and Rockets when we find out–rather jarringly–that Maggie and Hopey are, in fact, lovers. Jaime Hernandez, writer and artist. He’s never quite topped that scene, though God knows he’s tried.

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Man! Comic books have changed since I read them!

I quit reading shortly after the conclusion to the Dark Phoenix saga - the first conclusion. Not much sexy, although I do recall a scene of Ororo enjoying an indoor naked rain shower. Censor Steam, unfortunately.

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I remember an issue of X-Men (or some such variant…) when Rogue was feeling particularly put upon due to the whole no-physical-contact thing, and she runs afoul of Mephisto (fairly godlike power levels, what with being Satan’s right-hand man), and his method of trying to convince her to turn to the dark side was just to kiss her… and let her absorb his power. He had so much power that what she took was like a drop in the ocean, and she just kinda melted.

Of course, she then turned into an evil Satanic witch queen, but hey. It was a good twenty seconds or so.

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Could you be a little more specific?

. . . . .
Okay, a couple more spring to mind.

Elfquest (shut up), in Journey to Sorrow’s End. Cutter and Leetah have Recognized each other (a kind of mating imperative), but Leetah is having none of it. There’s a gulf of centuries between the two. He’s a barbarian with a wolf. Yadda yadda. All Cutter understands is that The Way It’s Supposed To Be is not happening, and he’s probably going to die of loneliness/longing.

And then, Leetah says his soul name out loud. He’s facing away from her, and he just freezes, wide-eyed, and trembling. Leetah comes up behind him, slides her arms around his chest, and he just melts. His is, after all, just barely grown up (Seventeen?), and Leetah is a healer who knows how to use her powers in . . . creative ways. Not really surprising they had the first pair of twins born to elves on the World of Two Moons.

A little more obscurely:

<I>Concrete</I>, which I read years ago and haven’t re-read. It’s around here someplace. Female and male friends of Concrete are on a life raft with a handful of other survivors. It looks very likely that they’re going to die out in the middle of the ocean. At some point, when everyone else is asleep, the two of them talk. Then, they start making out - desperate, needing. There is breast cupping and nipple caressing. I do remember that bit. Just like that, it’s over. After they’re rescued, the man would really like to pick up where they left off while the woman never refers to it again.

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Superman & Wonder Woman in the Kingdom Come mini-series, in #2, and at the end of #4.

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Honestly? No, not really. Grell was doing the title twenty years ago. I don’t remember specific scenes. But I do remember that Oliver and Dinah seemed to have a much more realistic relationship than was being portrayed in other comic books of that era.

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Actually Elfquest was pretty adult for a comic book. There is bisexuality, threesomes, incidents of polyamory, etc. and the entire story is pretty darn good as well.

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I remember some sort of hot love scene with of the X-Ladies during the X-Men sojourn in Australia after they were “killed” in the Fall of the Mutants storyline. My mind thinks it was Rogue, but that would be odd, obviously, unless she had her powers modified during that period.

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Camelot 3000 has a scene where the reincarnated Sir Tristan (who wound up in a hot woman’s body) finally kisses Isolde.

Scorching, for the time. And it was an awesome series.

Here’s an overview with some illustrations, including that kiss.

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2010/05/04/comics-you-should-own-flashback-camelot-3000/

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Completely off-topic: I didn’t have much knowledge of Adams, so I just checked out his wiki page. Was anyone aware that there’s a conspiracy theory out there denying the existence of plate tectonics, and that Adams is a leading voice in that cause?!?

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Bruce “Batsy” Wayne had an on-again-off-again relationship with Silver St. Cloud beginning in the late 70’s. They had a sexual relationship, which was unusual in DC comics at the time. There were some really sexy of panels of Silver alone and with Bruce that really caught my teen-aged eye. Bruce’s weirdness eventually drove her out of his life.
A glance at wikipedia shows that some asshole i.e. Kevin Smith has brought her back in an out of continuity mini-series long enough to kill her. Idiot.

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Star Wars.

I can’t remember which exact comic it was, but I think it wasthis one from the Amazing Spiderman series.

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After further thought, I believe the romance I was thinking of was between Madelyne Pryor and Alex Summers (Havok).