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In the Kirby 'New Gods', there's such an affable, easy tension to their interactions - being, as they are, the grim and sturdy God of confrontation and the chipper, ethereal God of can't-we-all-just-get-along - that it becomes what one might term 'slash friendly', were one so inclined. And I am. Like George and his pal in 'Of Mice and Men' or that weird tantric love in at the end of 'Speed' or Catwoman's maid in that Elsworld's who keeps flashing her panties at Selina and asking why she even needs a man when she's got her around, et cetera, et cetera. Both Orion and Lightray are significantly sensualists, as are most of the New Gods and indeed, most Kirby-writ characters, and so the element of tactility comes right into play. Am I saying all man-on-man physical contact - that isn't beating the shit out of each other - is sexual? That two guys can't just be close friends and share a joke and a brotherly love of the upcoming triumphs of their Godly existence(s)?
All I mean is that there is a subtext, in the sense that there are elements within the text, itself, which can be drawn together, emphasized/specified and thereby at least seem to make sense in a connect-the-dots fashion. And, yeah, actually, the first time Apollo and Midnighter show up in 'The Authority' my read of Supes/Bats from 'Stormwatch' zipped away and became replaced by the smiling shine of Lightbulb Jesus, the boy to the dog of Apokalipsian war and eternally struggling titanic soldier-deity, Orion.
Now... How much of the O'Ryan Mob, as it were, have shown up post-Crisis? (The eighties one, not this thing we're in the middle of, of course.) |
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