Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1704683-20130627224448/@comment-61022-20140819200945

Quite little bit of advice next time you want to discuss something: It kind of helps to talk about what comic book(s) you're specifically talking about. Otherwise you get the string of conflicting opinions above instead of actually talking about what you are asking -- a specific detail in a comic book --

But since you're talking about the Ultimate Universe I don't know the specific issues off hand, but basically early on in the series Professor Xavier has Cyclops and Wolverine go searching for the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and Wolverine leaves Cyclops for dead and then seduces Jean Grey and sleeps with her. that happens between Ultimate X-Men #20 and Ultimate X-Men #25. If you keep on reading the series she specifically is quite angry and regretful that she slept with Wolverine when Cyclops turns up alive and well.

A little advice for readers: Don't always take an on panel image as confirmation that something did or did not happen. Because really, a lot of "adult" content is going to be either omitted or implied. It helps if you actually READ the story. They're not going to show you all the lurid details (because of various ratings for comics) But not even a MAX title will go all the way with visuals. It's something called subtlety and context. Another example of this was during the "Sins Past" story arc in Amazing Spider-Man #509-514. In that story it was revealed that Gwen Stacy, months prior to her death had an affair with Norman Osborn and gave birth to twins. During this arc, as Peter learns this years long secret the question about the children's parentage comes up and briefly and Mary Jane even asks Peter if he thinks the children are his. Peter breaks down in tears and says something like "we never..." and trails off because he breaks down crying. While he doesn't have to outright say it, we can take from his emotional response and the fact that he is trailing off mid sentence that he obviously never slept with Gwen Stacy while they were a couple.

These are basic literary devices people, these shouldn't be difficult to piece together. If you take the time to follow the story narrative these things become pretty obvious.