Wh the much discsed, more flamboyant gay teen superhero Bunker butg this week DC Comics "Teen Tans" #3, wrer Stt Lobll discs the metaphoril unrpngs of a seri that turns young hero to outlaws.
Contents:
- DC'S RELNCHED TEEN TANS TO BUT GAY TEEN SUPERHERO [UPDATED]
- DC'S RELNCHED TEEN TANS TO BUT GAY TEEN SUPERHERO [UPDATED]
- TEEN TANS: WAS JERICHO ALWAYS GAY? IT'S... COMPLITED
- LOBLL BUILDS UP GAY TEEN WH "TANS" BUNKER
- STT LOBLL TEAS SEND GAY TEEN TAN
- WAS JERICHO OF THE TEEN TANS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY?
DC'S RELNCHED TEEN TANS TO BUT GAY TEEN SUPERHERO [UPDATED]
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Followg through on s pledge to create "a more morn, diverse DC Universe" wh the New 52, DC Comics will troduce a gay teenage superhero Teen Tans.
Seri artist Brett Booth has revealed that Bunker will but November's Issue 3 -- he's referred to as "The Wall" the solicatn text -- where he's picted as an openly gay teen om Mexi who "n create small force fields that look like bricks. "We're tryg to make beg gay a part of who he is, " Booth wrote last night on Twter.
Bunker isn't the first gay Tan -- that was probably Hero Cz of Tans L. A., although there was a lot of fan speculatn about Jericho when he buted 1984 -- but he's (likely) the first gay teen troduced to the post-Flashpot DC Universe. He was very loved by his fay and the village as well -- and they were as acceptg of his homosexualy as they were to his super powers when they first manifted.
DC'S RELNCHED TEEN TANS TO BUT GAY TEEN SUPERHERO [UPDATED]
I've seen all the other gay superhero out there, Ok maybe not all. We wanted to show an tertg character who's homosexualy is part of him, not somethg that's hidn. Sure they are gay people who you wouldn't know are gay right off the bat, but there are others who are a more flamboyant, and we thought would be nice to actually see them portrayed ics.
I wanted you to know he might be gay as soon as you see him. Will he be more effemate than what we've seen before, the 'typil' gay male ic character, y. There’s one Tan that already is gay, that we’ve talked about brgg on — probably next season.
Bunker, who is openly gay, has the abily to create psnic energy nstcts, which often manift as purple bricks he n e to attack enemi or protect himself as armor. In any event, when Perez and Wolfman were creatg the character, their ial tent was to have him be gay.
TEEN TANS: WAS JERICHO ALWAYS GAY? IT'S... COMPLITED
Perez explaed to the Gay League why they cid to change their md, ""While Marv and I did discs the possibily of Joseph Wilson beg gay, Marv cid that was too much of a stereotype to have the sensive, artistic, and wi-eyed character wh arguably effemate featur be also homosexual. After the ial bate on whether to make Jericho gay or not, Perez went all on Jericho as not only beg straight, but beg a ladi man.
She later ntued to pursue the topic and he fally adms to her that he is gay...
Whout makg a big fs about , Tans nfirmed that Mercy is ed queer and she has a fay—which is a HUGE relief to *this* Tans fan who has been sperately wag for some gay sh to happen for two seasons already!! 1573237236Let's hope the gays keep wng future episos of the ensemble superhero seri! Wh the much discsed, more flamboyant gay teen superhero Bunker butg this week DC Comics "Teen Tans" #3, wrer Stt Lobll discs the metaphoril unrpngs of a seri that turns young hero to outlaws.
LOBLL BUILDS UP GAY TEEN WH "TANS" BUNKER
Introduced onle advance of his full but this week's "Teen Tans" #3, the hero whose power volv creatg brick-like force fields earned both praise and srn onle when the publisher revealed that the Mexin youth would not jt be openly gay but a more flamboyant take on gay superhero general. A lot of digal k has been worked up on Bunker beg a gay teen and beg a teen who's a b more flamboyant his embracg of his sexualy. Stt Lobll has teased a send gay member for his Teen Tans wrer revealed plans to troduce a boyiend for newly-troduced character Bunker to the tle.
"Former Jtice League member Vibe has been teased to be returng to DC Comics the near future, leadg to mours that he might be reimaged as a send homosexual Teen Tan. The term om the killg of Kyle Rayner's girliend Alexandra DeWt shortly after his but as Green 2's Green Lantern Alan Stt was recently revealed to be gay.
In the followg issue, his lover was killed a tra has pledged to troduce more gay characters to s relnched New 52 Armage is Movi Edor at Digal Spy. Characters om Tans whom are eher lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, pansexual, asexual, etc. So far there have been three bisexual characters (Jericho, Gar Logan, and Tim Drake) troduced, one lbian character (Mercy Grav), one gay character (Larry), and four unlabeled characters (Koriand'r, Molly Jensen, Bernard Fzmart and Ga).
STT LOBLL TEAS SEND GAY TEEN TAN
Actor Jam Scully, who portrays Bernard Fzmart, is gay. In the latt Comic Book Legends Revealed, fd out whether the Teen Tan known as Jericho was origally gog to be gay.
This time, our first legend is about whether Marv Wolfman and Gee Perez origally tend for Jericho of the Teen Tans to be gay. I me across the issue aga readg on DC Infe and as an adult I started to wonr if Marv Wolfman had possibly tend to make Jericho one of the first gay ic characters. So as to your qutn, I thk the answer is more of a no, Jericho of the Teen Tans was NOT origally tend to be gay, but 's very tricky.
When Perez and Wolfman were creatg the character, their ial tent was to have him be gay. Perez explaed to the Gay League why they cid to change their md, "While Marv and I did discs the possibily of Joseph Wilson beg gay, Marv cid that was too much of a stereotype to have the sensive, artistic, and wi-eyed character wh arguably effemate featur be also homosexual.
WAS JERICHO OF THE TEEN TANS ORIGALLY MEANT TO BE GAY?
Te or false that he was origally meant to be gay? I thk that's jt too much of a stretch to say that Jericho was ever "origally meant to be gay.
How did Marv Wolfman retroactively make Jericho gay? The tertg thg, of urse, was even after apparently cidg to NOT make Jericho gay, Wolfman (wh Perez off of the book to draw Crisis on Infe Earths and then The History of the DC Universe and then Wonr Woman) sure seemed to ht that he WAS. As my pal Bill Walko noted to me, though, the stori were ripe for discsns om fandom, and fans wrote about the Jericho/Kole stuff, and while ially was simply "Joe was beg a gentleman to Kole, " a follow-up askg about the gay subtext led to "Kole is ad now, so don't matter.
" Another rear wrote to Teen Tans Spotlight askg about the posibily of Jericho beg gay, and was unanswered, and then Wolfman did three-part story Teen Tans Spotlight (wh art by Ross And and Dennis Jensen), that revolved around the fact that Joe had a former female fiancée. Many years later, though, right before the DC Rebirth versn of Jericho was revealed to be bisexual, Wolfman got to wre a Teen Tans story set the Crisis years Convergence: New Teen Tans #1-2 (art by Nila Stt, Marc Deerg and Jeremy Cox), and was able to revis the Jericho/Kole dynamic, only this time have Jericho e out as gay... ), and so when Perez and Wolfman troduced Jericho, the ia was for him to be straight, but then Perez left for years, and Wolfman didn't do much about Jericho those ensug years, and 's at least POSSIBLE that Wolfman played around wh the ia of PERHAPS dog some hts towards Jericho possibly beg gay some of the Perez-ls stori, but end up not dog much wh the character perd, and then Perez fally returned, and ma Jericho SUPER straight.