#i will always be a genderqueer Q truther but i dont want to reduce his identity thing to just that. because there is so much that can be-
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The Question #6 (1987)
#book club#the question#vic sage#dc comics#comics#i feel bad that i dont remember this character's name. mr 'luckier than vic sage'#anyway. folds my hands on my desk and pushes up my glasses.#☝️🤓 most characters that are directly compared to vic like this are queer. this guy is gay. later there is-#-a hairstylist that quotes the butterfly story that Vic learned from Richard. and lets not even get into the symbolism with the butterfly...#(ALSO renee! i might be focusing on this specific run but we can't forget about renee. her sexuality is important to her story.)#the question is a queer allegory...#could be... could be.....#i think the beauty of him is that you can read into his struggle with identity in so many ways.#it's about faith it's about gender it's about sexuality it's about mental illness it's about so many things.#i think drawing parallels between him and queer characters is not a mistake & has plenty of merit and evidence to it#i will always be a genderqueer Q truther but i dont want to reduce his identity thing to just that. because there is so much that can be-#-extracted from the narrative here. and oftentimes the instinct in stories about queerness is to focus on just that.#which i think does no one a favor personally so i want to point it out. this is a multi-tiered discussion.
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