Ok, how about this for an idea. We take it in turns to post a favourite (British spelling) comic cover every day. This went really well on the comic fan website that I used to frequent. What we tried to do was find a theme or subject and follow that, until we all got bored with that theme. I'd like to propose a theme of letters of the alphabet. So, for the remainder of October (only 5 days) and all of November, we post comic cover pictures associated with the letter "A". Then in December, we post covers pertaining to the letter "B". The association to the letter can be as tenuous as you want it to be. For example I could post a cover from "Adventure Comics" or "Amazing Spider Man". However Spider Man covers can also be posted when we're on the letter "S". Adventure Comic covers could also be posted when we're on the letter "L" if they depict the Legion of Super Heroes. So, no real hard, fast rules - in fact the cleverer the interpretation of the letter, the better, as far as I'm concerned.
And it's not written in stone that we have to post a cover every day. There may be some days when no cover gets posted. There's nothing wrong with this, it just demonstrates that we all have lives to lead.
If everyone's in agreement I'd like to kick this off with one of my favourite Action Comic covers, from January 1967. Curt Swan really excelled himself here.
Discussion and voting on future monthly themes takes place on the "Nominations, Themes and Statistics for A Cover A Day" thread. Click here to view the thread.
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Another almost didn't make it night but I'm here, and so's Jimmy with the Kryptonian Flag again.
BY THE WAY: Has anyone other than me not been receiving new post messages concerning this site lately?
(Image courtesy of the Grand Comics Database.)
House of Mystery #18
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The next generation of El is bisexual, but some things don't change. Jon Kent's current love interest is a reporter named, in this case, Jay Nakamura. I suppose giving him an "LL" name would have been too much.
Couldn't miss out on the Care Bears!
The Flash/Pied Piper story I posted yesterday was considered significant enough to be reprinted in 2023's DC Pride Through the Years.
Voting for future themes here. Lee, Eric, JD, Steve, Richard and I have cast votes. Anyone else want to contribute before I close the poll?
Did I miss an issue or event somewhere? Why is Supergirl on this cover?
Because one of the stories reprinted here is "Supergirl #19" (Volume 7) (2018). The character that Supergirl is giving a lift to is Lee Serrano and was featured in that story.
I am not necessarily well-informed on the matter, but apparently Lee is non-binary. That story lampshaded their search for expressing her identity and finding full acceptance.
I must admit, I am still new to the usage of "they/them" pronoums for non-binary people. Hopefully I did not mishandle them.
As I've previously stated, I have no problem with anyone, real or fictitious, preferring their own gender. However I freely admit that once you get past the basics of straight, gay, lesbian and bi; I need an explanation to understand all the various terms in regards to a person's physical self. But as long as the person in question is a legal adult, not harming themselves or anyone else and are happy, like Pope Francis always said: "Who am I to judge?"
Non-binary / genderqueer self-identification is indeed fairly new far as general awareness is concerned. I certainly did not learn of it until recently
The key for understanding it may be understanding that it is not a matter of sexual attraction, but rather of identity. It runs parallel to the LGB spectrum and is more related to the "T" and particularly "Q" letters. Non-binary people often feel unconfortable with decisively male or female pronoums, with is why in English it has become customary to adress them by "they" or "them" depending on verbal mode.
Their attraction to one or both genders is fairly unrelated to non-binarism. It is not clear to me whether they tend to be attracted to other non-binary people, or pansexual, or asexual. Maybe that is not yet very clear either.
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