Keeping things secret from Mark is only going to get harder.
Look at this scenario we having start before us: Rimi texts Jan and Jackie. They both go out and, a few minutes later, the TV news reports that Miss Melee, Kid Melee and Osakan Riot have had an adventure. I mean, how difficult will it be to do the math?
That’s assuming he doesn’t know already as is content play the ignorant S.O.
That might change if he realizes his daughter is doing the hero thing. 🙂
Mark may know about one or both of them but wants Jan to tell him when she’s ready, on her terms not on his. As for as their daughter goes he may just have a certain amount of trust that Jan can handle it. That’s not to say that he doesn’t have concern or worry.
Or he legit doesn’t know. After all genre conceits aside the characters in-story do not know and see everything we do as readers. It’s not impossible that Jan could have kept it up all this time. Besides it’s not like her or Clark Kent goes to the grocery store and the local Starbucks in their outfits.
Agreed; no matter what he may or may not have seen, the familiar can blind you to certain conclusions. It may very well be that Mark literally cannot believe that Jan is Miss Melee.
Which opens up the very real possibility (from how flirty Miss Melee gets with him sometimes) that Mark might start having to confront a sense of guilt for feeling that he is being unfaithful to his wife by being attracted to the mysterious superheroine.
It’d be interesting if he does know, but only because he’s got powers himself. I assume that Jan has powers*, because otherwise they’d be teaching that glowy-fist thing in gym class.
*Even if it’s just “I am Bruce Wayne and can operate at 10.5/10 peak efficiency indefinitely”-style ‘powers.’
I don’t think they need to give Mark super-powers. I don’t think every character surrounding a superhero should also be a superhero or super-powered themselves. These characters need some regular mortals around. It gives contrast and makes the idea of the superhero feel a bit more special.
Mark is obviously some sort of super-engineer type. I suspect he was a low level villain who decided to change his ways when Miss Melee showed interest in him.
You don’t need to rely on a friend to text you as an excuse to leave. Way back in the early 90s before everyone and their 4 kids all had cell phones, I had a work colleague who would set his Linux computer to page him about an hour into a date with a new woman. He’d say he had to call back, and step away to find a phone. If he was having a good time he’d return and say that it was nothing important. If he wasn’t having a good time he’d say that he had to go into the office, that he’d had a good time, and then just never call her again.
And a computer never forgets to send the page at the exact time you wanted it to send the page.
“My new friend… er… Abby! That’s it! My new friend Abby has invited me over to a sleep-over!”
When Abby Adams arrives on the scene, things get a bit complicated with the phrase: “Play along and I’ll owe you!” being the first thing that Jackie ever says to her!
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She got a text saying: “Miss Melee should be at Shuster Drive and Stanley Avenue in about 25 minutes. Meet her there.”
Jan and Jackie where similar color clothes…
Keeping things secret from Mark is only going to get harder.
Look at this scenario we having start before us: Rimi texts Jan and Jackie. They both go out and, a few minutes later, the TV news reports that Miss Melee, Kid Melee and Osakan Riot have had an adventure. I mean, how difficult will it be to do the math?
Oh My God! Miss Melee is Jan’s identical twin sister!
Well, almost identical; Miss Melee is about an inch taller.
That’s assuming he doesn’t know already as is content play the ignorant S.O.
That might change if he realizes his daughter is doing the hero thing. 🙂
Mark calls Miss Melee and says “I’m afraid that King Corp might be sending my wife to spy on you!”
Mark may know about one or both of them but wants Jan to tell him when she’s ready, on her terms not on his. As for as their daughter goes he may just have a certain amount of trust that Jan can handle it. That’s not to say that he doesn’t have concern or worry.
Or he legit doesn’t know. After all genre conceits aside the characters in-story do not know and see everything we do as readers. It’s not impossible that Jan could have kept it up all this time. Besides it’s not like her or Clark Kent goes to the grocery store and the local Starbucks in their outfits.
Agreed; no matter what he may or may not have seen, the familiar can blind you to certain conclusions. It may very well be that Mark literally cannot believe that Jan is Miss Melee.
Which opens up the very real possibility (from how flirty Miss Melee gets with him sometimes) that Mark might start having to confront a sense of guilt for feeling that he is being unfaithful to his wife by being attracted to the mysterious superheroine.
It’d be interesting if he does know, but only because he’s got powers himself. I assume that Jan has powers*, because otherwise they’d be teaching that glowy-fist thing in gym class.
*Even if it’s just “I am Bruce Wayne and can operate at 10.5/10 peak efficiency indefinitely”-style ‘powers.’
I don’t think they need to give Mark super-powers. I don’t think every character surrounding a superhero should also be a superhero or super-powered themselves. These characters need some regular mortals around. It gives contrast and makes the idea of the superhero feel a bit more special.
Mark is obviously some sort of super-engineer type. I suspect he was a low level villain who decided to change his ways when Miss Melee showed interest in him.
Panel 5 Mark is all, ‘It’s cute that she thinks I’m so easily fooled.’
You don’t need to rely on a friend to text you as an excuse to leave. Way back in the early 90s before everyone and their 4 kids all had cell phones, I had a work colleague who would set his Linux computer to page him about an hour into a date with a new woman. He’d say he had to call back, and step away to find a phone. If he was having a good time he’d return and say that it was nothing important. If he wasn’t having a good time he’d say that he had to go into the office, that he’d had a good time, and then just never call her again.
And a computer never forgets to send the page at the exact time you wanted it to send the page.
I wonder what Jackie’s excuse to get away is going to be.
“My new friend… er… Abby! That’s it! My new friend Abby has invited me over to a sleep-over!”
When Abby Adams arrives on the scene, things get a bit complicated with the phrase: “Play along and I’ll owe you!” being the first thing that Jackie ever says to her!