Re: rschill's comment on "there ought to be a limit ... "
Comments like that -- and I don't want to single you out, because I hear such calls from too many people -- leave me cold, mostly because I wonder who the commenters want setting and enforcing the limits.
In the case at hand, Jeph Jacques and QC have established a precedent of handling such issues with thought and sensitivity, to the point where the artist has been driven to the point of near self-destruction by a "fan" who thought he/she/it was being ... witty?
But even where that's not the case: Let someone say what they will. If it's wrong, or you think they're wrong, call them on it. The marketplace of ideas (which, more often these days than before, translates pretty directly into the real marketplace) will decide who and what will rise. That might be the only realistic way of setting and enforcing the "limit" some people seek to put on others.
In other words, if Jeph and QC can find acceptance handling issues such as gender preference and trans* and a myriad others the way he has -- learning along the way from opinions expressed to him, his own thought processes, and his own mistakes and those of others and any other learning method I've left out -- he deserves every penny of success he gets from doing so, whatever I, you or anyone else says.
I didn't mean to backseat drive the comic.
I started out trying to say why I didn't think we'd see a Claire accidental outing drama based on the way he's handled the story so far and what I remember Jeph writing about it. Then I tried to get at the general principles.
As far as I can tell, Jeph does a stellar job on Claire and the comic in general. I might be biased because QC is the only comic I've ever followed though.
But you see, the characters could almost be all straight white cis hetero with just a few details changed and a couple arcs missing. It seems to me that what's great about the diversity is that it's so normal. It isn't a device. It isn't the selling point. It seems to me that it's just what you're supposed to do when portraying humans.
That's what keeps my eyeballs looking at the ads every day.
I hope that makes sense. If not, then I blame these nice meds that have been making my back pain bearable.
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Topic: WCDT: 2578-2582 (18-22 November 2013) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread (Read 49052 times)