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Tyranthraxus posted...
True, and my intention isn't to discredit their experiences or anyone else's.
For transparency's sake, I dislike the fan-fiction/soapy nature of the Big 2 comics that inevitably results in writers not involved in the creation of characters, retconning them to fit their narrative down the line. Purely from a storytelling perspective, it has a disingenuous, uncreative nature.
Why not tell a story in the vein of Inuyashiki, Strongest Man Kurosawa etc, about a new (from our perspective) older hero, who's lived as Takei or Michael have, and comes to terms with who he really is?
Unless Nodell's original intention was for Alan to be gay, or to come out later in his life, it feels as fraudulent to me as Gwen Stacy having Osborn's kids or turning Plas avaricious.