Prince Street News: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

 The new BACK ISSUE! (#123) focuses on the oft-turbulent love lives of superheroes. Traditionally, when one's entire life is built around hiding your true identity and racing off to help strangers both on and off world, a "normal" life is tough to maintain. The soap-operaesque nature of relationships among heroes and their partners (some civilian, some not) has been ripe fodder for stories since Lois Lane first rebuffed Clark Kent. 

This installment of Prince Street News is a mix of fanboy and layperson jokes. Some of this stuff is really weird... f'rinstance, teenaged Green Lantern Arisia had a big crush on Hal Jordan, so she used her power ring to skip some years and make herself age-appropriate for Earth's GL.... ew! When Kent Nelson donned the helmet of Dr. Fate, he became basically a different entity, with little or no connection to his wife, Inza. Abby Arcane had sex with a vegetable. You know... superhero romance! 

Next up: What if some monstrous heroes wore traditional superhero costumes?