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04nbod (04nbod) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-13 19:07:00

Current mood:	amused
Current music:	BEP- I gotta Feeling
Entry tags:	char: star boy/starman/thom kallor

Adventure Comics #504/ #1: Adventures in Bowling

Starman is recruiting some Pigeons to the Legion when he is rudely interrupted...

God Bless Starman. He meets Tellus in Smallville swamp who reveals that if Starman doesn't get 31st century treatment he will never get his mind back. The final page is a selection of Omens, Element Lad as a 21st century Chemistry teacher, Dream Girl captured (again), Brainy and phantom girl telling Blok he is disfigured, XS on the cosmic treadmill going to the past and a green lantern wearing both rings. (which is against the rules unless they have a power no other legionnaire has without the use of the ring)

And that Ladies and gentlemen was the only redeeming part of AC #504, Kryptos 'ickle cape came close.

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	04nbod 2009-08-13 08:20 pm UTC (link)
	I feel similarly, I feel bad laughing but I came to the conclusion we are laughing WITH him and not at him. I think its great Starman has schizophrenia considering suffers are often misrepresented as bad people by the media. More so than any other mental disorder. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

perletwo
2009-08-14 12:55 am UTC (link)

As I understand it, currently the term "schizophrenia" is used by the lay public incorrectly as 'generic-crazy' and by MH professionals to include a catch-all of similar-presenting but biologically different syndromes. I'd hope that by the 31st century they'd have nailed the term "schizophrenia" down to one specific definitive diagnosis and that's what Thom has...but that's probably giving DC too much credit.

And yeah, I think Thom's a positive presentation of someone living with a MH syndrome - he's generally happy, and his ethics are very much intact - he knows right from wrong and lawful from unlawful, and back when this JSA title started his doctors emphasized how deeply murder scenes upset and disturbed him. His faculties are also intact - he can do higher-level maths, and he'll often point out a wrinkle in a crisis situation nobody else noticed. So yeah, on the whole I don't feel too bad about laughing with him.

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	darklorelei 2009-08-14 07:42 am UTC (link)
	I don't feel bad about laughing at him, and this is kind of sweet. Seriously, my only problem is what they called it. But I am perhaps overly sensitive about MH-related stuff. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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