Oh yeah, speaking of Superman being a jerk again, when he wasn't messing Lois and Lana about he was macking on another guy's wife. Not just a random guy, either, but Mister Miracle of the New Gods, and sometime friend of the Man of Steel. Woops. In a spectacularly weird story in the post-Crisis Superman title, writer/artist created the alien porn mogul Sleez (yep), who was already making some pretty decent bank from brainwashing other New God Big Barda, making her do sexy dances in a sewer, filming it, and selling it on the intergalactic black market. Greedy for more, Sleez overextended himself a little and decided he could see even higher grosses from getting the hypnotised Barda to sleep with Superman, unwittingly inventing the celebrity sex tape. In fact the tape did get made - Superman really did have sex with Big Barda, wife of superhero Mister Miracle - but afterwards the pair managed to shake the mind control and put an end to Sleez's pervy plans, with help from Miracle. So what happened afterwards? Barda and Supes said they had foggy memories of what they'd done, but agreed never to speak of it. Which seemed to suit Mister Miracle, who had seen the tape and clearly never wanted to be reminded of it ever again. DC had much the same reaction, with the whole story never again being referred to and now (presumably) lost in the New 52 reboot.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
