LIKE A SERIOUS POLL
This is! Only somewhat like a serious poll. BUT a lot of you guys are from COMIC BOOK or MANGA canons. So I am asking for some help >D
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Thor
1. Hetero, although Thor and Balder totally have a bromance going on. Marvel as a whole is gradually tossing in token homosexuals here and there.
2. Not so much a factor in Asgard, really.
3. Publicly known, although apparently most people don't believe Thor's actually the Thor.
4. Superpowers galore. Yeeha.
5. I'm not a huge Olivier Copiel fan as far as the new series goes, but I do like the new armored costume redesign. Also, I think that he does a few pretty interesting things with panel layouts and having scenes sort of bleed over beyond the borders. Otherwise for Thor... Kirby, Simonson, and JRJr. 'Nuff said.
Ricochet
1. Julie Power is probably a lesbian and this makes both Rico and I sad.
2. Anti-mutant! Woe is us, poor superpowered endangered species!
3. Ricochet's is functionally secret, but some people are in the know.
4. Again, Marvel. All sorts of superpowers.
5. For the Loners series? The cover art sucks, IMO. The interior artwork has gotten consistently better, but I'm not wild about the heavy inking that was going on in the first two issues.
The Spirit
1. Mildly liberal, but still mostly Hetero. Spirit has a goddamn harem, and though his girlfriend once decked him for kissing another woman, he's done that a lot and she hasn't left him. So. Slightly chauvinist?
2. Not so much anymore... Check out Eisner's original design and implementation of Ebony White, Spirit's sidekick, for some classic offensive stereotyping.
3. Secret, and yet no real double life because Denny Colt is thought to be dead.
4. There's less emphasis on the superpowered and more on the outlandish.
5. Darwyn Cooke has some spectacular art and layouts, and Eisner wrote the book on artistically incorporating the title page into the story.
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