Re:The writer who made me love comics taught me to hate them...
by JKCalhoun on Monday January 17, 2022 @03:11PM
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You may be right but it's too bad then: they have a platform and an eager audience and are wasting an opportunity to depict a mature and healthy relationship in comics.
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Re:The writer who made me love comics taught me to hate them...
by avereveard on Monday January 17, 2022 @03:29PM
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I mean, they are on thin ice - can you imagine the ruckus parents would do at anything but cis? or the ruckus blogger would do if every "mature and healthy" relationship gets portrayed as necessarily cis? I see them using tropes also as a quick way out.
albeit there's some interesting takes if you search around, like in the amazon "invincible" - but I guess a miniseries has more space for it, and it's for a more adult audience to begin with.
Re:The writer who made me love comics taught me to hate them...
by tptacek on Monday January 17, 2022 @03:52PM
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These are Frank Miller comics. The "how would parents react" stuff is right out the window. Gaiman did a whole bunch of stuff with non-hetero sexuality for DC, and he gets TV series to this day.