tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862722106761723755.post5087533809960544130..comments2023-11-13T13:46:13.960-06:00Comments on DC Bloodlines: Secret Origins Annual #1: "The Secret Origin of Captain Comet" (1987)Diabolu Frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04685199809207954223noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862722106761723755.post-38802908203994770542010-06-24T17:32:53.482-05:002010-06-24T17:32:53.482-05:00Maybe he's bi, or maybe he's -- what's...Maybe he's bi, or maybe he's -- what's the sci-fi comics equivalent of metrosexual? -- galaxisexual? cosmisexual? astrosexual?Tom Hartleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00279973364279144136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862722106761723755.post-23863316865666096372010-06-24T16:39:29.682-05:002010-06-24T16:39:29.682-05:00I like teh gaye, and it goes with the intentional ...I like teh gaye, and it goes with the intentional undercurrent in my posts here of spotlighting women and minorities of the DC Universe. However, in the last issue of <i>R.E.B.E.L.S.</i> I read, Comet was intent on leaving the team until Starfire showed up. Unless this is the hardly atypical homosexual fascination with large breasts and supporting platonic "girlfriends," my Log Cabin Rocketmen theory may be a bust.<br /><br />As for you Roy Thomas comments-- inspiring! Now I kind of want to go through each <i>Secret Origins</i> tepid tailgunner and try to read entirely too much into it. "...this proves that Firebrand I died a virgin ...it can be inferred that the Human Bomb was addicted to opium ...which settles any dispute that Alan Scott voted for Herbert Hoover ...and that's how we know Red Bee was a Jehovah's Witness."Diabolu Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04685199809207954223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5862722106761723755.post-89370667990295509532010-06-24T10:43:40.415-05:002010-06-24T10:43:40.415-05:00Isn't it more likely his reaction to his mutat...Isn't it more likely his reaction to his mutation was supposed to echo the reaction adolescent boys had to their changing bodies? Where's all this hair come from? How come this thing gets hard whenever I think about girls (or other boys)? And since the readers were assumed to be at that awkward age when they began feeling an attraction to girls, but still felt more comfortable in the company of other boys (a stage many heterosexual males never outgrow), of course they were offered stories with an all-male environment. Comet's real problem was that he was a teenage boy in an adult body; that is, a typical super-hero.<br /><br />But if you want him to be gay, that works for me. Your revisionist origin is more interesting than anything Roy Thomas could dream up. If not for the popularity JLI, "The Secret Origin of the Martian Manhunter" would have been one of Roy's dreary SECRET ORIGINS back-ups, with Joe Certa's panels redrawn by Rich Buckler and inked by an elderly Murphy Anderson.Tom Hartleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00279973364279144136noreply@blogger.com