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Absolutely this. Midnighter being brown in and of itself isn’t the issue. The issue is DC’s character assassination of Apollo which turns their dynamic into “violent brown one” and “soft white one”. They have been slowly feminizing and softening Apollo for years. They have also been using him to perpetuate shallow gay stereotypes in the process (the rupaul bit made me so violently angry). DC literally is using every commercialize idea of being gay and going “LOOK LOOK NICE GAY MAN FUN GAY MAN ISNT HE RELATABLE GAY KIDS”. It is literally trying to commodify a type of homosexuality which DC deems as harmless. He also HAS to be ideologically subservient to the DC characters (making him a Superman fanboy and listening to Alan Scott who finger wags at him for wanting to kill Nazis???). He cannot disagree with the DC passive white liberal ideology bs in any way because otherwise he would not function in the DC comic universe (BECAUSE HE WASNT MADE FOR THAT REALITY NOR WERE ANY OF THE WILDSTORM CHARACTERS). Then there is the thing where we only see them in the pride issue now because they cant disrupt the actual universe and they are literally just selling our fucking queer identities back to us.

I also don’t think it is a coincidence that they started making Midnighter (ambiguously) brown AFTER they had established Apollo as just the nice pacifist (white) one. Weird how they only thought of making Midnighter brown when he was standing next to someone far kinder and more mild huh?

I have a lot more to say on this but I want to organize my thoughts before i rage post anymore v.v I am also actively writing an academic paper for a conference on DC’s ideological dominion over the Wildstorm characters under their DC label so yeah

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family time on the Carrier

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Midnighter and Apollo released from gay prison for their once a year dc pride special outing.

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Love & Blood Midnighter & Apollo By artist, Val Jean Zachary

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Happy pride month to THEM

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Have I ever mentioned I heavily fw Apollo (I heavily fw Apollo)

Genuinely tho I've been reading so much Wildstorm it's insane. Stormwatch (1993) and (1997) r finished, read a little WildC.A.T.s, finished Authority (1999) + Kev + Scorched Earth, UGH ITS SO GOOD 😭😭😭 I fear for when the Prime Earth convergence happens cos I just know it's gonna fuck up all my favourite characters

Which, btw. Jenny Sparks is my wife 🫶🫶 If she was still alive I'd be talking about her constantly

Anyway some extra art I like a bit less for the lovely folk who pressed "read more":

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another midpollo + jenny dump 🫡

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Jeroen Thornedike says this everytime Sparks tells him to do something while he looks right at the reader

Jeroen Thornedike should have been at the club

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Jenny Sparks’ and Jenny Quantum’s relationship is everything to me…

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Doctor

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i have midpollo brainrot 🥀

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typical Authority workday

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sorry guys for the dry spell. I had to practice anatomy

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So you don't want to read the Authority. Here is the first half of volume 1 poorly summarized:

This started out as just shit posts but alas, here we are

The Characters:

The Plot:

One interpretation of the Authority's (Part one by [redacted]) thematic crux (No longer shitposting):