re: #1 No Malarkey!

I never read the comic, so I don’t know if it’s true to the character or not, but Jennifer Walters on She-Hulk gets drunk just about every episode, and they play it for laughs. That bothers me a bit, because a lot of kids are watching, and alcoholism really isn’t funny.

I can’t comment on recent portrayals of the She-Hulk, but her hard partying was a source of dramatic tension early in her 21st century relaunched series. (I largely dropped modern comics in late 2005 when I got a mortgage.)

Comics-Tony Stark and Comics-Carol Danvers are both recovering alcoholics and their respective battles with alcoholism have been a source of a few storylines.

Comics-Hank Pym is bipolar, and in the midst of a psychotic episode verbally and physically abused his wife.

Spider-Man, the longtime company mascot with the proportionate strength of a spider, in the midst of his own high tension breakdown, once punched his then-pregnant then-wife Mary Jane, a normal human, through a wall.

Comics-Bruce Banner was revealed to have killed his abusive father. The abuse he suffered was one of the sources of the Hulk’s rage.

The primary audience for these magazines, movies, and television programs is not young children, and hasn’t been for some time, and it would be out of character for Jen to order milk in a bar like Adam West on Batman ‘66.

One of the things that differentiated Marvel characters from others was that the heroes had “feet of clay.” They had problems, and neuroses, and unpleasant character traits. They weren’t perfect and they weren’t paragons.