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Thursday, September 27, 2007
Just Give Him Something To Do, Already!
Hey, check out this cute scene from the most recent issue of Justice Society of America:
It's the JSA having a pancake breakfast with a bunch of firemen and kids. Only, someone's missing. Give it a moment's thought, I'm sure it will occur to you.
That's right, where's Obsidian? What really drove home his absence for me, though, was this panel:
So...firemen hitting on an underage Stargirl is played for laughs, but Obsidian is, yet again, a no show.
Now, setting aside that unfortunate "saving Obsidian from being further molested by other writers" talk before the series launched, and setting aside the creepy symbolism of putting a gay character in the book and then never showing his face and (almost) never having him talk (I think he's said all of two sentences in nine issues)...Geoff Johns apparently expects us to believe that Obsidian turned down a chance to have breakfast with hunky firemen!
So Johns has no clue how to write gay characters is what I'm getting from that. It's time to either give him more to do in the book than imitate wallpaper or let other writers use him.
Threatening Jerk Geeze, Jen, he's your brother for cripes sake! Quit hanging off him like that!
Passive Aggressive Manipulator
So, let's review. Straight Obsidian=emotional basket case prone to violence and aggression and increasing madness leading to eventual attempt to destroy the world. Gay Obsidian=happy, well-adjusted hero.
And Gay Obsidian has been reduced to a glorified security system because certain writers and artists irrationally prefer the unstable lunatic with a sister complex...
There are two principal charges against Jade. The first, that she deliberately encouraged the worst case of a sister complex in a comic book character since the introduction of Pietro Maximoff.
Hell, Pietro comes off positively well-adjusted in comparison to Todd. On one of Todd's good days.
First of all, it's important to realize that Jennie's parents know that she has a twin brother:
So how does Jennie introduce Todd to her friends?
"Hey, Todd, come over to my family's house for Thanksgiving. Only, don't tell my parents that you're my emotionally repressed brother. It would be so funny to let them think you're my boyfriend instead. Oh, and really play up the fact that you're Catholic. My parents love Catholics!"
Which of course, leads to subtextually uncomfortable scenes like this:
Her second, and far more serious crime, is thinking it's a good idea to dress someone like this:
Okay, we now know that Damon really loves Todd. Because he's willing to go out with someone who dresses like that for work.
Displacing your emotions much, Todd? Which is it, are you jealous of someone taking your sister away from you...or jealous of Jennie spending all that time with a hunk like Brainwave?
In Infinity Inc. #35, when the Infinitors met the Global Guardians (featuring Injustice Unlimited as the antagonists and a special appearance by the League of International Batmen), you could cut the testosterone and sexual tension with a knife.
Sadly for all future fan-fic writers, Tas spent most of his time flirting with Nuklon and sparring verbally with Wildcat II, while Todd moped.
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