Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-241978-20141030044711/@comment-241978-20141101174538

Sorry for the over-analysis, but I was always confused by the obvious implication that Verdona had another family that we never knew about until cousin Sunny visited.

We know from real life experience that Natalie and Sandra Tennyson both have parents and other relatives. They're never mentioned but we assume they do exist. We assume Verdona has parents and other relatives for the same reason. We do not automatically assume Verdona has kids from another relationship because that isn't an automatic assumption among humans. We have to be told about it.

Being told about it in implication without any further explanation just raises more questions. Did Verdona have other kids? Did she adopt? Did Max have another kid who decided to join the plumber skeleton crew? Unless we retcon existing details we have to develop a story within the existing framework.