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1. • CommentAuthorLamont Cranston
   • CommentTimeMar 1st 2011

    
   I was thinking about Dads in comic books so I wrote some words down about them. (There was a point originally but this shapeless nonsense will have to do.) Ka-POW! Dads in Comic Books!
   
   Thomas Wayne (Batman, DC Comics, still ongoing)
   Although a motivated and committed breadwinner for his family Thomas Wayne loses points for not spending enough quality time with his son and his cataclysmically poor selection of routes home following visits to the cinema. But he did leave his son with enough money and motivation to become The Batman. Let’s face it every Dad would be proud if his son became The Batman but not every Dad would make the sacrifice Thomas Wayne did. Nanananananananananana...BATDAD!
   
   Woodson Hex (Jonah Hex, DC Comics, Still ongoing)
   Only a damn fool would tell you that Jonah Hex’s pappy didn’t raise his boy up true and straight like the old rugged cross itsownself. Abandoned by Jonah’s worthless tramp of a mother Woodrow found the necessary regime of nigh constant beatings and humiliation such a nettlesome child required interfered with his necessary and God given right to drink rot gut until his brain clenched so hard he’d pass out. Taking advantage of the absence of a Social Services Department in the Old West Woodson promptly sold Jonah to some Apaches. Crucially Woodson demonstrates that just because you have a child it doesn’t mean you can’t have a life of your own.
   
   Lamont Cranston in The Shadow: Blood And Judgment by Howard Victor Chaykin (1986, DC Comics).
   Top pop Cranston Senior spent dirty decades amassing a filthy fortune through licentious and larcenous means and all for his perfect progeny. Custom built and tailor made to the highest genetic specifications Jnr’s disease immune science enhanced corpus was intended to be the receptacle for the wheel chair riding and death-bound crimelord’s mind. There are paternal bonds and then there is stealing your son’s body so you can continue bending the world over for your own pleasure. Sadly his plan pivoted on besting The Shadow. Ooops. Lamont Cranston: truly one of Chaykin’s finest “moral cripples”. In fact, a dad so bad I stole his name.
   
   And then I had to go do something less interesting...
   
   Do you know any Comic Book Dads? Tell me about them and you may even see your words appear on the Internet where millions of people who can’t search for porn properly may see them by mistake!
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     CommentAuthorOK Comics
   • CommentTimeMar 10th 2011

    
   The 'best comic book' dad comic book I've recently read is Daytripper.
   It's not clear what the book is about at first, but by the end it's obvious it's about fathers and sons. Brilliant book.
3. • CommentAuthorLamont Cranston
   • CommentTimeMar 10th 2011

    
   You sure as heck can't argue with the display of craft in DAYTRIPPER. It is a visually gorgeous thing indeed.
   
   Okay, I'll go with "brilliant book" too. That's two people who think DAYTRIPPER is a brilliant book so that just statistically increased the likelihood of you thinking it is a brilliant book by a factor of, um, something. Anyway, it's more likely. Even more likely if you buy it! Which you might want to do.