Art by El Manto Negro. Characters © DC Comics Inc. Posted by the Web-Ed on 06/22/2012 (click to increase in size). (Originally appeared on Anime OTK).
Earthmen apparently aren't the only ones in the solar system to recognize the value in spanking bad girls: here we have the Martian Manhunter, J'onn J'onzz, spanking Miss Martian, M'gann M'orzz, while members of the Teen Titans watch. He's got her locked in place over his knee while he delivers some effective-looking spanks, judging by her red bottom. The artist, El Manto Negro, did a fine job with the coloring and expressions also: the Manhunter looks strict in a paternal, loving way, while Miss Martian displays a mixture of embarrassment and guilt - she knows she deserves this!
Now some explanation as to who these characters are. Miss Martian first appeared in Teen Titans #37 (2003 series, August 2006) and basically hung around with that team for a while before going on to some other adventures. The Martian Manhunter goes back much further, to Detective Comics #225 (November 1955) - in fact, so far back that had he been a little more important, we might date the Silver Age of Comics from his first appearance rather than from that of the revived Flash one year later. Exactly who created him is still in dispute, but we remember him as a founding member of the Justice League of America a few years later. His powers were a strange amalgamation of Superman's (strength, vision) with some odds and ends.
We don't know if his was the first alien name to require apostrophes, a practice which Chris Claremont later took to absurd lengths in X-Men, but we'd view it as a mark against him if it were since we're annoyed by having to read (and type) all those things. At least the Manhunter had enough sense to use the phoenetic spelling "John Jones" in place of J'onn J'onzz while disguised as an earthman. (M'gann M'orzz should be read as "Megan Morse").
