Putting on a Show
Once again we return to our regularly-scheduled bullshit.
All the extracurricular bits Iāve been putting out since the 1923 Special dropped have been a remarkable act of procrastination from writing this essay. You may be able to spot some of my working from that, and the recent reread, here. If you do, why not treat yourself to a cookie?
Alex: Hereās an incredibly obvious statement: The Wicked + The Divine is a comic about performance. Like, yeah, dude, do you remember the very first double-page spread? Itās like page 10 of issue #1.
āPerformanceā is always the word WicDiv chooses for the gods doing their artistic thing. Not show, or concert, or act. Most likely, thatās to help separate it from music ā especially important when dealing with past pantheons, with their writer gods, cinema gods, theatre gods and so on ā but I think itās a telling choice
Letās see what Ananke ā who is presumably the arbiter of this vocabulary ā has to say about performance, in issue #9:
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But there ARE only 2 genders...everything else is made up, and most likely mental illness. What you are referring to is gender ROLES, which is different.Ā
Made up genders, and sense of self-identity are not factual reality.Ā


















