OK, I thought this one took the cake, but I’d forgotten about the Summers clan. yeesh!
Anyway, I’ll share it anyway. Not exactly a comic, although inspired by superhero comics: George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards series. (though they did make at least one comic based on it) Anyway, there’s a character named Cameo, who has the superpower to channel dead people by touching their belongings. (Technically, it’s just the imprint left on the belongings, not the real spirit of the person, because they only remember up to the last time they touched the object.) When she does this, she kind of “rides along” in the back of her head, while the dead person takes over. (and she can use whatever powers that person might have had, too.)
Anyway, she’s in love with a guy named Nick, who she’s never actually met because he’s dead and she has his fedora to channel him with. Then there’s Jonathan “Bugsy” Hive (who can transform in full or in part into a swarm of green wasps). He was dating a girl named Aliyah , a.k.a. Simoon (dust/whirlwind powers) who died. But Cameo was able to channel her through her earring and let her continue the relationship.
So Bugsy loves Simoon who sometimes inhabits Cameo who loves Nick, who also sometimes inhabits Cameo.
The Starbrand guy and his retarded* fucktoy “Debbie-the-Duck” who is a mentally challenged woman/girl.
That alone–a creepy 30-something guy preying on a mentally disabled girl-is bad enough, but the writer, Jim Shooter, point-blank said that he based Starbrand on himself and “Debbie-the-Duck” was just like one of his old girlfriends.
*I mean that literally. Developmentally disabled. She had an IQ of about 80…her mental age was about 7 years old and she thought it was <quack> hysterically funny to <quack> say “quack” at <quack> random points in a sentence <quack>"
It’s been a while but I don’t recall Debbie the Duck being 7 years old mentally. I know she had self esteem issues and wasn’t smart but it didn’t seem that extreme.
Check out the panels where she thinks it’s hi-larious that she had to hide on the floor of Ken’s car for hours. And how she “dint” want to mess things up for him and other misspellings/grammar problems. 7 may be an overstatement, but she was certainly far younger mentally than her physical age and was retarded.
I agree with the Intergalactic Gladiator, even if the 80 IQ is accurate, around one in 6 people have an IQ below 80. It’s not brilliant, but it’s nowhere near the level where an adult would have the mind of a seven year old. And that Star Brand guy is no intellectual giant himself. It’s a weird relationship, but not as creepy as all that.
I dunno, both of them are completely insane (in fact, that’s their defining character trait), so one would expect any relationship either of them is in to be pretty well screwed. In fact, if anything their relationship is far more normal and healthy than anyone should have any right to expect.
There’s an obscure one called “Tailgunner Jo” that’s pretty weird - father and daughter are injured in a horrible car accident, and combined into one cybernetic entity with two brains. http://www.cosmicteams.com/obscure/t.htm
If I bring up Storm and T’challa will you send someone to beat the screaming jesus out of Reginald Hudlin? 'Cause seriously, putting two characters together simply because they’re both black pisses me off to no end.
And the only good thing about House Party was Robin Harris.
