When folks talk about male characters who are difficult to gender-bend while keeping their whole Deal intact because the deal in question is specifically About Masculinity, they're usually imagining a character who embodies some sort of sober commentary on the nature of patriarchal violence or whatnot. Meanwhile, I'm sitting here trying to picture what a thematically coherent girl version of Flex Mentallo could possibly entail.
If the core of Flex is "mysticism grounded in 1920s US advertising," I propose Listerina Bridesmaid, for whom cleaniliness is the source of all power.


















