September 3, 2009 

MiLF –Cool. KiLF? Not So Much!

We had a Doctor Fate toy when I was a kid. I had no idea who the heck he was, but there was just something visually cool about him. Someone must agree, because Doctor Fate keeps getting rebooted.

The original Doctor Fate was Kent Nelson, who was with his archeologist dad at a dig in Egypt (because, that’s why) when a trap killed him. Originally, the wizard Nabu took pity on him and raised him as his own. Post Crisis it was “revealed” that Nabu actually was responsible for the elder Nelson’s demise, and that he then magically aged young Kent, so really he was just an eight year old.

In the post Crisis Fate Series, Kent and Inza Nelson (his wife) are dead and there’s going to be a new Doctor Fate, Eric Straus. I lost some of my scans, but the gist is that Eric is a little kid, who has a very close bond with his step-mommy. Not, however as close as Mommy Linda would like. Nabu hyper-ages Eric and…

Ew, am I right?

That’s from the third issue.

Keep in mind that “the moment I laid eyes on you” involved Eric being about seven, then re-read it.

Seriously messed up. I want to make jokes, but the early issues of Fate really are all about a woman who is obsessed with boinking her underage step-son, both before and after he’s physically (but not – and the plot clearly states this – emotionally or mentally) aged to an adult.

I had a lot more examples, but I’m kind of glad I lost them.


  • Dierna

    *blinks* Incest and Pedophilia…how'd that get past censors?? So she thinks they're soul mates???

  • Dr. Novakaine

    Ay yi yi. That's creepier than anything I ever read into Batman and Robin. Maybe because it's so much more overt…

  • http://Slayerlit.us Shiai

    I blame Meltzer for this…but then, that could just be my knee-jerk reaction to blame Meltzer for everything, up to and including the Bear Stearns financial meltdown.

    Meantime, New York Children and Family services should probably pay a call to the DC offices.

  • Shiai

    I blame Meltzer for this…although that could just be my knee-jerk reaction to blame Meltzer for everything, up to and including the Bear Stearns collapse.

    Meantime, New York Children and Family Services should probably pay a visit to the DC offices.

  • Naryldor

    And to think that, until now that is, I believed GL had a problem with Carol Ferris…

  • madwoman

    Ooookay, from looking at this artwork, it seems that the wizard ages kids simply by stretching them, and then they turn grey.

  • onion3000

    LINDA: From the moment I laid eyes on you,I knew I'd found a piece of myself that I'd been missing — For a thousand lifetimes.
    ERIC: (Arms outstretched) I love you this many!

  • http://sezaarsez.wordpress.com/ sezaar

    “you're the most important person in my life. Every night you read a bedtime story to me and check for monsters in the closet.”

  • onion3000

    That's what happened to me… (Sniff!)…

  • http://bwmedia.wordpress.com/ ShadowWing Tronix

    I don't think it's incest when she's his stepmom. That's more like Ultimates Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch.

    Granted, that doesn't make things any less creepy and wrong.

  • HellRazor

    Is it just me, or is it right around this time that Dr. Fate really started to suck?

  • Lordbuff

    At least she is checking for monsters in the closet, and not under the covers

  • Anonymous

    At least she is checking for monsters in the closet, and not under the covers

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  • Darkness

    The first page you can read into, the second page I see nothing sexual about. I think it sucks that there are so many people that go on and on about crap like this. He’s a male and she’s a female, if they were both girls it would be totally fine. And if they were both boys it would make it even worse. I say it would be better if it had been about Eric and his step-father. And I think it’s awesome that the creator of this was brave enough to get this published. I won’t read anymore of this comic, It’s not my style and I don’t much like comics, but I like stupid people that bash small shit like this even less.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mordechai-Luchins/1051988913 Mordechai Luchins

    Respectfully, it doesn’t have to be ‘sexual” in page two.

    He’s male and she’s female, yes. We’re it a case of someone, a grown adult, being attracted to their step-parent, there’d be nothing to write about.

    But I think you’re missing the point that last issue, he was eight years old. The comic is about a pre-pubescent boy, suddenly aged into an adult, and with his step-mother not only suddenly coming on to him, but saying they were soul mates from the moments she laid eyes on him (ie, when he was eight), is something I notice, yes.

    I’m not taking up a cause or a banner with this site, Darkness. I don’t even see it as “bashing” anything. There have been a handful of occasions where I’m legitimately offended by something, and I note it. Mostly, I post about random things that, one way or another, take me out of a story and make me go (like the title says) “What were they thinking?!”. Sometimes they’re offensive to me, sometimes they’re funny, and sometimes they’re a bit creepy.

    Having an adult (a heroic one, actually, as she goes on to also be Dr. Fate) wax philosophical about how much she loves an underage child is gonna be one of those creepy things, yeah. There’s no combination of genders that would make it in any way not creepy. The fact that she’s his step-mom isn’t even relevant to the “wait, what?” factor.

    Welcome to the site, and I hope you stick around and get a better feel.

  • Jeff

    You’re…not very bright, are you?