Comments on: The things you learn when you go back through old entries of abandoned communities.

By: Jonathan Nolan

Jonathan Nolan — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:05:31 +0000

Akhilleos wasn’t “gay” ie homosexual he was bisexual, if he existed at all, as his source material, you know – the Iliad? Makes clear. Gail Simone: overrated to the extent that she must surely be a green power source for our brave new carbon trading world.

When writing a book which has unwisely strayed into Ancient Greek mythological territory requiring the research skills of a sixteen year old high school student or someone who watches cartoons for 2 hours a day… DC launches failcopterz.

By: Graham

Graham — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:02:46 +0000

Well, not totally surprising, because the Homerian Achillies was kinda gay. Not in the love and relationship sense, but certainly in the “I’ll do anything pretty with a pulse” sense.

Of course, this would then divulge into a long discussion about the nature of relationships in Ancient Greece, and how it was perfectly acceptable to be the do’er, but shameful to be the done, and the treatment of relationships that had very little to do with romance as we understand it, and…

But hey, believable gay characters in comics written by an suthor thta can usually be trusted to handle things tastefully? Awesome!

By: Maddy

Maddy — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:51:01 +0000

Not abandoned, just moved! –> http://scans_daily.dreamwidth.org

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:58:31 +0000

heh. and I was just beginning to lose interest in Simone’s run. interesting move

also are there any other gay men in the DCU aside from them, Mikaal (who is technically just bi), Obsidian and David from Manhunter?