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thebigapricot (thebigapricot) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-03 11:43:00

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char: green arrow/oliver queen, char: green lantern/hal jordan, publisher: dc comics, title: cry for justice

Hey, guess what one of James Robinson's fantasies is?
Cry for ~~Justice~~ a Threesome! BoP fans get ready.

From DC's The Source

WTF? At one point I was actually excited for this book. Stop messing with my BoP, sir.

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	kd_the_movie 2009-08-03 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	While I agree, this isn't entirely true. Hal had a one -night stand with some chick early in the current GL run just so Johns could prop up Hal's womanizing tendencies. Hal was single long enough for a 3some to have gone down. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jaybee3
2009-08-04 12:09 am UTC (link)

I stand corrected. Now that you mention it I can remember the scene in question. But it would still be out of question for friends like Huntress and Zinda to have a threesome with anybody, or for Helena to start having one night stands again, or for Dinah of all people to talk about it so openly (Helena and Zinda being two of her closest friends). And it certainly can not be a coincidence that of all the super-heroines Robinson could reference he had to pick two of the stars of the only all-female team book DC had.

If Robinson had ever read BoP (and I presume he had since Lady Blackhawk is not exactly a well-known DC character) he would know that it was OOC - yet he wrote it anyway. Using a whole page in JLA for two middle-aged heroes (chronologically, if no longer physically) to make a sexual joke about two female heroines who can't answer back (since they now no longer have their own title or a long-term writer).

I have no problem with casual sex if the behavior is in character (ala She-Hulk or the way Huntress was written BEFORE Birds of Prey) but when it's not and then to make it a threesome. It smells of some writer's sexual fantasy. It's just tacky.

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thebigapricot
2009-08-04 12:35 am UTC (link)

That's it. He took two great female characters and used them for a punchline for a cold opening. Bravo. Oh and he also threw Dinah under the bus because it implies that she blabs about her friends' sexual activities. The thing that bothers me? While those who read BoP see that it would be OOC for Helena and Zinda to indulge in this frat boy fantasy (and I do think it is OOC for especially for Zinda) the book frankly had a small audience compared to a lot of others. So now for many people the only thing they will know about these two terrific women is that they had a three way with Hal Jordan.

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jaybee3
2009-08-04 01:27 am UTC (link)

Excellent point. Most of the people who will be reading this because of the JLA title (and even more when it comes out in trade paperback or hardcover) will have no idea of who Lady Blackhawk is and will not realize how totally UNLIKELY is that someone from the WWII generation who has never shown any predilection for the opposite sex will have a threesome with one of her closest female friends (a once-again mass attending Italian Catholic who has resolved to reform her sex life last we checked) and some space cowboy (who is involved in a committed relationship in his own book). And Dinah Lance of all people would blab about such a thing? Heck no!

Unfortunately I fear this is how future writers who can't be bothered to do the research will see the characters. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Huntress or Zinda guest-starring in other books just to capitalize on their "easy" status by writers who don't know better. That's exactly what happened in Outsiders with Huntress and Roy. The assumption at the time was that since she has been involved in a one-night stand with Nightwing, she would have no problems with Arsenal as well. And that was played off a sex joke between males in that book as well.

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	lieut_kettch 2009-08-04 02:42 am UTC (link)
	Ummm... duplicates from Earth-A? Yellow Fear Demon? Superboy-Prime Punch? Ivy's Sex Pollen? Ah, hell, I hear the River Nile's lovely... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	unknownscribler 2009-08-04 04:12 pm UTC (link)
	Have a think about who might actually be the person mouthing off about the event (Reply to this) (Parent)

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