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NEWSARAMA.COM: WONDER CON '07 - DC NATION PANEL:
How ... cute. How very very special of them!
I suppose, given the phrasing of the question, you can only blame them so far for not treating the inquiry seriously. But that would be an interesting question, more reasonably phrased, wouldn't it? Will DC Universe ever show an actual romance in a gay male romantic relationship? Have they ever? (This is the point where, I would imagine, DC management would point to Wildstorm and yell, "Midnighter! Apollo! See! See!" And, yes, in the past, they have shown the occasional passing moment between them ... but Wildstorm isn't the DC Universe, now is it? Moreover, Midnigher spent the entirety of the first arc of his own title not only being forcibly separate from Apollo -- what with having various internal organs removed, being sent into the past, delivering magnificent kicks to the head, and so on -- but seeming to be seriously pissed off about being in a relationship at all when they weren't apart. I mean, clearly he feels that he's not good at this relationship thing, that what he's good at is the blood and the guts (someone else's, of course) and the mayhem, but if you look at the open and close of that first arc, you don't even feel that he likes Apollo, not even a little.
Meh. I'm not one of the people who gets really insistent about being portrayed in DC's superhero titles; after all, I read all of three DC Universe titles, and I can't imagine where you could put something like that in Superman Confidential or All Star Superman. (I get Manhunter only in trade -- and there are four if you count the Rush City mini, which I didn't know was a DC Universe title until Black Canary showed up -- and, really, what is it with her arriving butt-first everywhere?)
But, you know ... Renee Montoya has actually gotten to kiss the occasional gal pal on screen, as it were. Right there on the printed page, Lips Were Locked. Have any of the gay guys gotten the same privilege? It does seem that the guys announce they're gay and then they Never Get Any Action Ever Again.
But, again, talking out my hat. People with more knowledge of DC will have to answer that question.
Kicking off at 4:00, the DC Nation panel at Wonder Con played to a packed room of DC fans. Joking at the fact that some of the assembled panelists had just done the same panel exactly one week earlier in New York, DCU Executive Editor and moderator Dan Didio joked that they would pretty much repeat themselves, though there was plenty of new information offered up for consumption. [...] Didio then introduced the rest of the panel members: Bob Wayne, Editor Jann Jones, Superman Editor Matt Idelson; and Green Arrow, Outsiders and Trial of Shazam Judd Winick. [...]
Q: The Firestorm series: can it be saved like Manhunter?
Didio: Not right now.
Q: Are lesbians the only ones having sex in the DCU? How about some boy on boy action?
Didio: See those two guys chained together in the Villains Defiant Countdown poster?
Wayne: Cold nights out there on the run…
How ... cute. How very very special of them!
I suppose, given the phrasing of the question, you can only blame them so far for not treating the inquiry seriously. But that would be an interesting question, more reasonably phrased, wouldn't it? Will DC Universe ever show an actual romance in a gay male romantic relationship? Have they ever? (This is the point where, I would imagine, DC management would point to Wildstorm and yell, "Midnighter! Apollo! See! See!" And, yes, in the past, they have shown the occasional passing moment between them ... but Wildstorm isn't the DC Universe, now is it? Moreover, Midnigher spent the entirety of the first arc of his own title not only being forcibly separate from Apollo -- what with having various internal organs removed, being sent into the past, delivering magnificent kicks to the head, and so on -- but seeming to be seriously pissed off about being in a relationship at all when they weren't apart. I mean, clearly he feels that he's not good at this relationship thing, that what he's good at is the blood and the guts (someone else's, of course) and the mayhem, but if you look at the open and close of that first arc, you don't even feel that he likes Apollo, not even a little.
Meh. I'm not one of the people who gets really insistent about being portrayed in DC's superhero titles; after all, I read all of three DC Universe titles, and I can't imagine where you could put something like that in Superman Confidential or All Star Superman. (I get Manhunter only in trade -- and there are four if you count the Rush City mini, which I didn't know was a DC Universe title until Black Canary showed up -- and, really, what is it with her arriving butt-first everywhere?)
But, you know ... Renee Montoya has actually gotten to kiss the occasional gal pal on screen, as it were. Right there on the printed page, Lips Were Locked. Have any of the gay guys gotten the same privilege? It does seem that the guys announce they're gay and then they Never Get Any Action Ever Again.
But, again, talking out my hat. People with more knowledge of DC will have to answer that question.
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