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Quoting LDones from over in the Frankenberry (I mean, Frankenstein) thread, in the interests of widening the scope, gyre-like, a little-bit-yes-maybe:
I suppose, with the constant presence of mother/father/son/daughter/top/bottom examinations in 7S, you could make the argument that all of the series is informed by sexual themes (and certainly they're present in each mini), but I feel it stronger in Frankenstein than in any of them, even Bulleteer.
Do we want to suss this out? Are our heroes secretly the Seven Sex Soldiers of the Sheeda Pornocalpse? What exactly are the sexual themes that LDones and others might pick out on reading Seven Soldiers?
Alix and The Bulleteer is Bullets are a Girl's Best Friend and super-porn industry.
Frankenstein is the flaccid, undead body horror, the sex-is-bad perversion of human spirit & the ultimate rejection by his "perfect woman" (literally created for him) because he's not her type, she's got sexier fish to fry...
Zatanna? Zee's the exhibitionist, she's the burlesque show of the gang. She can never quite manage the real thing - ultimate power is undercut by terrible romantic choices - but she can maintain and play with the illusion, all the shiny, see-through clothes. Zee fascinates me because she is flawed, simply, and she wraps herself up in guilt until she realizes she has to do something. As soon as she tries to bleed the sex over into real life from fantasy, thinks screw up. She needs her Achilles Heel.
Klarion, well, Limbo Town's all about what happens after the invasion of body horror sex, trying to maintain extremely rigid values in the face of sexual violence. Limbo Towners are "sinful" and must repent, but Klarion's the one to point out that he hasn't had "a chance to commit any sins." He rejects the self-abuse and doesn't cling to the "innocence of childhood," he goes out into the big bad world, he wants to grow up a learn all he can - but he rejects the callous rules of "grown-ups are bad." I really love Ezekiel, Klarion's step-dad, in this one; he encourages to grow up and change things (grow up but not accept the predestination of Limbo Town), but to still be mindful of the people's beliefs. Ezekiel encourages positive change in the community and accepts that if you want to do it without violence you have to wait.
Jake and the Manhattan Guardian crew have to deal with the sex secrets of the Newsboy Army of Nowhere Street, so I suppose the sexual theme there is closely linked to Klarion; recriminations and punishment after the fact, judgement and guilt.
But I'm not sure where to go with Mister Miracle or Shining Knight, yet? Thoughts? |
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