![]() ![]() ![]() They were out, they were Avengers, and it was all…remarkably unremarkable.Īnd here we are, a decade and a half later. Their feelings and actions weren’t relegated to subtext. Their relationship wasn’t remarked on as something controversial or shocking. And there, in the pages of a major Marvel comic, were a happy couple of teenage gay Jews. ![]() If you were a queer comic reader, it was as dark and isolating a time as you could fathom. Bush had run on a platform overtly supporting a rollback of gay rights, and helping to put anti-gay-marriage amendments on the ballots in 11 states (they all won). Now, try to remember what the world looked like back then, culturally-speaking. Teddy Altman and Billy Kaplan were introduced to comic readers in 2005. This aftermath issue is a lot of things – a quiet wrap-up to a fun, popcorn event an ominous foreshadowing of things to come – but maybe above all, it’s something special to a generation of comic readers. Zach Rabiroff: What a week, dear friends, for the gays and the Jews and the gay Jews. ![]()
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