Now, when we say “comic book legalities,” we don’t mean, like, “I created this character, and you don’t have the rights to use him.”

We’re talking questions such as, “If a superhero has sex with a woman who doesn’t know he’s a superhero, i.e. when he’s in his secret identity, can she sue if the child turns out to have undesirable uncontrollable superpowers?”

And, yes, they do have an answer for that.

James Daily: I don’t think so. I mean I’m not positive, but I would think that by analogy to, for example, someone who knows that they are the carrier to a hereditary disease.

Ryan Davidson: Yeah, a hereditary condition is different than a disease. If you know you have a disease and you give to someone else through sex and you know you have it, that’s a crime.

James Dailey: And it’s worth noting that the father would still be required to support the child. That’s probably the way the law addresses that kind of thing: It’s unfortunate you have a child that you didn’t realize was going to require maybe special care, you have to send them off to a special school for mutants or whatever, but on the other hand the other parent is supposed to at least theoretically supposed to pay for their fair share of that.

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Wyle and fellow series cohorts Moon Bloodgood and co-executive producer and writer Mark Verheiden turned up at the New York Comic-Con not too long ago, and to unabashedly play on that fanbase, TNT is offering up its first look at the “Falling Skies” web comic, which comes to us courtesy of the fine folks at Dark Horse Comics.

You can also enjoy a look behind the scenes of the comic’s creation here:

Try to think of a single present-day sports figure who has the positive reputation and cross-demographic public recognition level to warrant being teamed up with one of the most famous and popular superheroes of all time, let alone one whose abilities allow him to come to the table with a possible storyline already in place. I’m willing to listen, but I suspect you’ll probably come up blank. Then again, there’s a reason why few argued with Muhammad Ali when he called himself “The Greatest.”

DC Comics has reissued “Superman vs. Muhammad Ali” both in standard trade paperback size and in a hardcover facsimile edition which is the same size as the version released in ’78, but if you have fond memories of reading the story back then, there’s no question that you’ll want to see this thing reproduced just as it was when you first thrilled to the story. If this is the first you’ve heard of this strange tale, however, here’s the back story: creators Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams took the idea of Ali being the greatest boxer on the planet and asked, “Yes, but is he the greatest boxer off the planet?” Just as Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen are preparing to interview the Champ, Rat’Lar, the leader of an alien race known as the Scrubb, arrives and demands that Earth’s greatest champion battle the Scrubb’s greatest champion…and if the Scrubb win, then Earth will be destroyed. Superman volunteers as Earth’s champion, but Ali, unsurprisingly, argues that he’s the greatest, rightly rationalizing that Superman isn’t originally from this neck of the woods. In turn, Rat’Lar demands that the two of them battle it out, with the victor of that fight taking on the Scrubb.

That Earth wins in the end is a given – I mean, we’re still here, right? – but the most entertaining part of the story comes first from watching Ali train Superman in the sweet science, then from watching Superman get his Kryptonian ass handed to him in the ring. It’s also a blast to examine the cover of the book and see which celebrities you can pick out in the audience, though there’s an index inside which identifies everyone of note, thankfully. (I still think it’s awesome that one of the biggest faces in the crowd is that of Kurt Vonnegut.) No, “Superman vs. Muhammad Ali” isn’t a classic comic in the traditional sense, but it’s a groovy ’70s artifact that still makes for an extremely fun read.

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One good “Green” deserves another, wouldn’t you say? I was really hoping this was going to be attached to the print of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt. 1” that I screened on Tuesday night, so that I could see it on the big screen, but this’ll have to do, I reckon. I’d be lying if I said that Ryan Reynolds doesn’t come off a bit too smarmy in the early moments of the trailer, but as the proceedings progressed, I realized that it was supposed to be some of Hal Jordan’s legendary cockiness. I think the CGI stuff looks cool, but, again, seeing it on the big screen is really going to make the difference. At the very least, though, Kilowog looks awesome.

Michel Gondry’s take on the classic hero…and by “classic,” we meet that 95% of people under the age of 30 have never heard of him…arrives on January 14, 2011. I’ve tried to keep my expectations realistic, since the idea of Seth Rogen as a superhero just seems wrong somehow, but damned if this doesn’t look pretty cool.