(COMIC) Cage and Fist; Who the Hell is Alan Scott?
DC, ya copped out. Weak move. If you want to stand for something these days, you gotta go big – - make Superman or Batman gay. Hell, everyone already thinks Batman is gay. Don’t come at your audience with some second stringer in an alternate dimension (or what ever) of your comic setting. For the record, I know who Alan Scott is – - most people don’t beyond some hardcore comic fans.
Speaking of disappointments and superheroes, check this link out. Wow. Don’t get me wrong; I love super heroes and all that shit, but this is ridiculous. Its all fun and games until they run across some real gang bangers, or God forbid, one of those Death-Spirits that are causing a ruckus in Mexico. My favorite heroes on this website are “Superbarrio” and “Angle Grinder Man”.
I love hipster-fist!
Thanks! I wasn’t going for a hipster look, but I guess he does look a little too cool for school. I’ll take it.
Yeah I was pretty down an out that DC couldn’t be bothered to have a relevant character be gay when they spent the last few weeks hyping it up like crazy. I was pulling for Green Arrow, who is probably one of the coolest characters DC has to offer, because it just felt right to me. Northstar being gay seemed sort of obvious but I remember always sort of assuming that some of the Marvel characters were gay long before we were all keeping count (Northstar, Beast, Psyloke, etc)
Midnighter and Apollo have been crazy gay since before they got married and, if anything, being a gay team only made things more awesome. Imagine if Superman and Batman were married and killed everyone all the time— now you’re thinking of their relationship.
As for this real world superhero database, I’m really happy you’re sharing this. A few of these guys seem legitimately dangerous but most just seem like cosplay people who maybe do volunteer work on the side, which is totally fine. The ones I’m worried about are the people who are sort of just playing, have never fought a day in their life, have no street smarts and will likely cause a crime rather than stop one. There was that guy, BeeSting, in Flint that got in trouble for assaulting someone for having a loud motorcycle. I’m not sure who attacked who or shot that gun but I know he got extra jail time for wearing body armor during aggravated assault.
I’m going to bet that if you dress in costume and wear body armor, a costume, and have weapons the police are probably going to jail you AND the drug dealers you roughed up and brought in. A real hero wouldn’t wear a costume and stalk the streets anyway. A real hero would blend into society, find a child rapist that kept avoiding justice and just make them disappear in the middle of the night. That’s the only way to make it work and the only way to make a difference.
When Grant Morrison was writing the X-Men, he outed Beast as gay, but then had Beast recant, saying he was just doing it for the publicity. Lame.
I agree with you in that a real hero would blend back into society. In comics, the costumes can look pretty cool (or corny), but they are largely unnecessary if you, the hero, plans things out and avoids the media.