I really should think up a title

I see. Dick Grayson, Dick Grayson, is the “only real man” Kori has encountered while on Earth.

(Keep in mind that this is in the context of her gazing at a seven-foot, ripped, ancient god of the Sun.)

The man in question:

BUT. Now that I’ve just come off the original Teen Titans run, they all seemed quite progressive (for the time), Wally included.

This could be gleaned from:

Opposition to war during the Vietnam war era

Opposition to anti-immigrant rhetoric

Aiding the reclaiming of stolen land from native peoples

And even the less plot-relevant but still pervasive themes of tolerance and acceptance, both of then-modern culture and the hippie movement. Silly, I know, but genuinely contentious.

So I think they're just amping that up a bit, to add a little depth to Wally, who had never really had that much done to develop his character in the past. (NTT #21 is the first time I think any Titans discuss their religious beliefs. When asked if he's religious, Wally replies "I guess so. I don't go all the time, but I believe." and Dick says that "I haven't thought about it much")

So Wally is being a bit of an asshole definitely, but more out of outdated assumptions, than actual ingrained homophobia (at least the way I read it, YMMV of course)

That said, I think it's still fair to call it homophobic. Even by the standards of the time: Wally clearly realizes the things he's said are pretty insulting to his friend, which is most of the reason why he's so eager to get out of there. So even Wally, at this moment, understands that he's crossed a line. Hartley, for his part, has probably dealt with worse.

BUT. Now that I’ve just come off the original Teen Titans run, they all seemed quite progressive (for the time), Wally included.

This could be gleaned from:

Opposition to war during the Vietnam war era

Opposition to anti-immigrant rhetoric

Aiding the reclaiming of stolen land from native peoples

And even the less plot-relevant but still pervasive themes of tolerance and acceptance, both of then-modern culture and the hippie movement. Silly, I know, but genuinely contentious.

So I think they're just amping that up a bit, to add a little depth to Wally, who had never really had that much done to develop his character in the past. (NTT #21 is the first time I think any Titans discuss their religious beliefs. When asked if he's religious, Wally replies "I guess so. I don't go all the time, but I believe." and Dick says that "I haven't thought about it much")

As I suspected, "the Borg will be black because black is the bad guy color" won out

Though on a more positive note, our first appearance of Worf in the spoiled cards depicts him getting his shit wrecked, absolutely on brand

Pretty sure the Zeus thing was already undone way back in the Greg Rucka Rebirth series, I distinctly remember there was a whole plotline of how a Lie had reframed the world (in this case, the New 52 WW retcons) and she had an entire story reclaiming fragments of her preboot status quo (clay origin, minotaur friend etc.).

...Admittedly in the ILL-ADVISED James Robinson run that followed Rucka's (which Rucka said Robinson never talked to him about prior to the change over) just ignored Rucka's work and doubled down on Diana being Zeus' kid by her having a secret biological twin brother who was promptly shoved in a space hole a short while later so everyone could pretend he never existed.

THEN Tom King retconned that back to the classic/Rucka version, with his doubling down once more in this new storyline.

Personally I'd like to know who was it in DC Editorial* who seemed so deadset on not just bringing back the origin the character had had for like half a century prior to that in favour of her just being another in a long-line of Zeus' heroic kids. Hell, that's even the Cassie Sandsmark version of Wonder Girl's origin story so it's not even unique within the context of the Wonder Woman comics either!

What with how Darwyn Cooke and Brubaker's Catwoman run having a full story arc of Selina developing a sense of social responsibility after having a profound identity crisis, with her deciding to use her crime skills to protect and help the Gotham slum she grew up in...

See Capt Boomerang Jr's desire to become a hero to make up for his shitty dad, ending up with him feeding corpses to his Black Lantern'd father because.. evil gotta evil I guess.

Kon-El being predisposed to evil because Lex is his genetic donor, but his other genetic donor was Superman so he's on the edge...

And, like, Johns definitely had Didio's ear at this point, the idea could have totally originated with him. But Meltzer, as a popular prose author, was being treated like a big get. It's entirely possible that Meltzer suggested this (not considering any of the larger ramifications beyond what they meant to the story he was writing) and Didio bent over backwards to find him every heel-face turn in DC to accommodate the story idea.

Disco Star Wars

Nail the bastard to the wall for the things that happened which he is responsible for, all of them, every single one, and I will join the throng doing so with a song (probably from "Les Mis") in my heart.

He sold his soul.

As in, he literally fucked up so bad last time he sold his soul to an arch lord of the underworld.

Were Kidd and Wint biting on an existing trope, or is this the primary cultural contribution of that entire film?

Were Kidd and Wint biting on an existing trope, or is this the primary cultural contribution of that entire film?

A Cruel Barbie's Thesis