#solem

Age difference? What age difference? (~80 and<18.) Pseudo manga yassification can make an ancient bisexual reformed mass murderer and gay lizard boy seem like peers. It's not like that plays into harmful propaganda and stereotypes about gay men and bisexuals! Obviously I'm overthinking it 😅

The body positivity and self actualisation is sweet plus if you squint you can see Logan hugging his boyfriend Scott in the background. It's literally the closest physical contact the two have ever been depicted displaying. Lunar polycule content is pretty rare, so please - think queer thoughts with me in defiance of Tom Brevoort claiming it 'never happened.'

You know Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes? Here's him NOT being a homophobe while blackmailing Irene Adler. The couple he's dehumanising and threatening just happen to be WLW. He does this to cis and straight folks too. Diversity win!

Here's his dumb ass being murdered for it by an immortal sapphic shapeshifter, his lifeless body tossed out a train window. See ya, hater. Love wins!

How did this get here? Oops, that's my bad. Almost as awkward as the year Marvel celebrated allies for Pride, completely ignoring queer characters! Let's just assume they fuck on the last page, hey? Loves summertime/hates summertime - the two genders.

Lest we think queerphobia is exclusively an Earth thing, here's a tale of closeted self loathing on Arakko. I know I feel seen when Solem murders his former lover with a blade that canonically sends you to hell - a place that isn't loaded at all in this context!

I do enjoy the intersectionality of the story and the willingness to show that acceptance isn't a binary. It would be easy to just make Kobak-Never-Held the only voice, proclaiming that a culture of violence doesn't care who you love or fuck. It's also pretty great that noted social Darwinist Apocalypse has a daughter who married a closeted bisexual man. Mass murdering war criminals can be widows to dead queers and homophobic at the same time. It's the duality of the human condition!

Happy ending! Instead of killing each other they have an identity affirming one night stand off-panel. The red planet is woke, you heard it here, but don't worry - Solem the ravenous, insatiable bisexual will be back to stalking Logan before you know it! In a digital only comic of course Negative, or exaggerated stereotype representation is important too! 🏳️‍🌈

That Storm impression is pretty funny. Does that mean the animated X-Men series exists in universe? Comics released before 2002 do, but I'm not sure what the deal is these days. I'm not sure what Ororo's problem with Bobby's jokes is - they're better than usual and he seems pretty happy. 'Guncle' - I hadn't heard that one before but it's pretty intuitive. Yeah okay, I get what Ororo's getting at. Bobby's basically just saying 'I'm gay' repeatedly in different ways. Applies to most of his publication history tbh. Closeted young people who cope with humour rejoice - you can still do that when/if you come out and your friends will still treat you with the same mild annoyance as ever!

I don't think Bobby will ever recover from that one. Pretty bold to be so plain about Ororo as a queer icon without saying why. The comics code no longer forces innuendo and insinuation. I'm a little surprised Al Ewing didn't go beyond coding when he had the opportunity. Maybe he wasn't allowed, idk, MCU properties have different rules. At least he undid Axel Alonso's 'Hercules is straight' bullshit.