Courting Disaster

Courting Disaster, my weekly comic about sex, love, and relationships updates every Friday. You'll laugh your pants off.

This week's question:

I'm eight months pregnant with my first child. It's the first grandkid on either side of the family, and both my parents and my husband’s parents are very excited. Here's the thing. All of them are lobbying to be in the hospital room with me when I give birth. Just thinking about that makes me anxious. I don't want anyone but my husband there. How do I let them down n --Room For One More?

Go on over and offer some advice.

This Week in Villainy: March 19-25, 2007

Who's Up and Who's Thwarted

Jack O' Lantern: Who would have though that taking a bullet to the cranium would be a career move?

After being summarily dispatched by the Punisher in Marvel's Civil War (issue 5), Jack O' Lantern -- newly possessed by Lucifer -- is becoming a major-league baddy. He appears in Ghost Rider #9: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Illinois: Part 2, part of the Casulaties of War crosssover.

From ComicVine.com's review:

The ongoing story of Lucifer being split into 666 pieces and each possessing a recently deceased corpse gets a twist in this arc. It was already getting kinda boring with him simply possessing normal people. Here instead he's possessed the corpse of Jack O'Lantern, who was killed by The Punisher in Civil War... He's actually much more menacing then ever before, and the way he toys with Ghost Rider actually doesn't come off as unrealistic. The fight scene between the two actually is pretty cool in this issue.

Kingpin: He called in a successful sniper hit on Peter Parker which critically wounded Aunt May in Amazing Spider-Man #539. It is not good to threaten the Main Marvel Matron, nor is it wise to drive a man with Spidey's power to a homicidal rage. This storyline brings back the black costume, and you just know that you wear black when you're going to a funeral.

In this case, I'm thinking it might not be Aunt May's.

Lex Luthor: Despite being outfoxed by Clark Kent in issue 46 of 52, Lex proves that he's still the A-list nemesis in Batman Confidential #4 by attacking Batman.

...In the Batcave.

...With a robotic bat.

...Knocking the Dark Knight into bat guano.

Eat it, Joker.

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The Supervillain Book

[Jennifer M. Contino / PULSE] If you're bad to the bone, chances are you make an appearance in Visible Ink's The Supervillain Book. If you're a fan of those despicable dastardly characters, then you've got to check out this encyclopedic volume that includes not just comic book villains, but those from television and film as well. We chat with editors Michael Eury and Gina Misiroglu, who had the monster task of making these 448 pages coherent.

The Real Question is clear: Evil Atom or no Evil Atom?