Starting with the most recent issue, #554, everyone's favorite time and space traveling superhero family will come with a T+ rating putting them a step farther away from the monstrosity that is the Marvel Adventures label and a step closer towards the MAX label (which you can't get subscriptions to through Marvel, pfft). Well I have read said comic and have indeed noticed some changes which you can read about after the break.
The biggest change from the book's move from an A to T+ rating is the inclusion of more sexual content. While not enough to warrant a higher rating, it's more than has been seen previously in the book, despite the fact that the Invisible Woman has always been incredibly curvy, much like every Marvel femme fatale. The first panel that has the Invisible Woman in it in issue #554 has a great shot of her cleavage wearing a Wild West prostitute outfit, perhaps to set the new more mature tone.
Later in the comic, Reed and Ben go to a school to talk to the students and there is a teacher who plans to seduce Reed because she's heard of his recent marital troubles with Sue. On top of that, Reed's old flame, Alyssa Moy, comes back in this issue to take him away to see some project she's working on which she doesn't disclose to Sue. Wow, Reed's really getting a lot of attention from women this issue, must be his money and flexibility.
Hmm, seduction. Speaking of that, Ben puts the moves on another teacher who compliments is ability to handle kids by saying, "Aw, this is nuthin', toots. You should see the way I make a Spanish omelette after a night o' wild, passionate lovin'." and she agrees to go out with him. I'd like to point out that this woman has complete eyesight, unlike other certain characters who dated the Thing.
Besides the gratuitous sexual themes running throughout this comic like so many gazelle across the Serengeti, there is also an increase in language. The phrase "Who the hell are you?" is used which seems like something that would have usually been "Who the heck are you?". A character also uses the exclamation "Sweet Jeezus", which in the past probably would've been replaced with something more "acceptable".
The changes to the book aren't radical but they are noticeable. I have no problem with it, as long as they don't replace adventure with drama. I don't want to have to hear about Reed and Sue's rocky marriage every issue. We get it, they disagree about the Super Hero Registration Act and the way Reed sided with Tony Stark, the billionaire cock juggler, stop writing about it every issue.
Oh well, let's just hope that from here on out there's less of this:
And more of this:
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