Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for July 28, 2010
July 27, 2010
July 29, 2010
Transcript:
captain: hey, ms. amazement, you got any girl powers? Woman: "girl powers?" captain: Yeah, y'know, invisibility, intangibility, telepathy, sonic screams... woman: how about the ability to listen to you without bashing your face in? captain: Yeah, that's a girl power if I--! woman: Then, no....
I always questioned John Byrne’s conviction that the Vision didn’t have some sort of reproductive capacity. He’s not just an android, he’s a synthezoid, with synthetic analogs to organic human anatomy. He’s “basically human”, in the words of the classic “Even an Android Can Cry.” In an old (prose) short story by Jim Shooter, he made it fairly clear that Wanda and Vision had a sex life.
Failing that, Wanda’s probability-manipulation could have given her a pregnancy by parthenogenesis, but a homozygotic child using only her own DNA ought to be have been female…
Of course, this was 20 years’ worth of continuity ago, so I’m not up on how they’re dealing with all that nowadays…