{"id":29132,"date":"2012-08-01T09:09:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T15:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/01\/the-latest-in-comic-book-celebrity-divorces.html"},"modified":"2012-08-14T08:29:12","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T14:29:12","slug":"the-latest-in-comic-book-celebrity-divorces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/01\/the-latest-in-comic-book-celebrity-divorces.html","title":{"rendered":"The latest in (comic book) celebrity divorces"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comic book creators love weddings, but hate marriages. \u00a0Marriages tie down characters. \u00a0Marriages deter freeswinging romances. Marriages are pedestrian. Marriages are boring. Marriages are deeply feared by the young males that comic book companies are primarily-if-not-solely interested in.<\/p>\n

I can think of a single marriage in either DC or Marvel that has endured, and that would be Reed and Sue in the FF. (I guess you could argue for Black Bolt and Medusa, but they're hardly as significant, nor exactly normal role models.)<\/p>\n

Another more recent marriage (has it really been six years?) between Black Panther and Storm is now over as well. \u00a0In this case, I don't have many regrets — Marvel never did much with it, except to\u00a0occasionally\u00a0have Ororo serve as T'challa's sidekick, or vice-versa. \u00a0It would have been nice, in principle, to come up with another stable marriage in the Marvel Universe, but just as there never seemed to be much rationale for their getting married, there's not much that seems to keep them together, esp. given all the current AvX brouhaha.<\/p>\n

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The marriage has gone as suddenly as it came, albeit with somewhat more in-story justification.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Comic book creators love weddings, but hate marriages. \u00a0Marriages tie down characters. \u00a0Marriages deter freeswinging romances. Marriages are pedestrian. Marriages are boring. Marriages are deeply feared by the young males that comic book companies are primarily-if-not-solely interested in. I can think of a single marriage in either DC or Marvel that has endured, and that … Continue reading “The latest in (comic book) celebrity divorces”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133767,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/30\/all-marriages-are-equal-but-some-are-more-equal-than-others-in-texas.html","url_meta":{"origin":29132,"position":0},"title":"All marriages are equal, but some are more equal than others (in Texas)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 30-Jun-17 4:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that public agencies in the state are not obliged to offer the same benefits to spouses in same-sex marriages as in different-sex marriages. 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