Doctor Strange, Straight But Not Narrow?
Thanks to a link from Neilalien I got some people to actually read this thing and even leave some valuable comments. If you link me on your blogroll I’ll link you on mine!
To be perfectly honest, my teenage mind never considered the possibility that the trucker’s comment could have been sarcastic. This, of course, turns the whole situation around. Doc is defending an underclass! Yay!
I think it can be interpreted either way equally, which makes the whole thing rather ambiguous. Still, it is something of a relief that my favorite fictional character isn’t going to explode into an Ann Coulter-ish fit of rage simply by meeting someone like me and zapping that someone into another dimension or a pile of fine ash.
In fact, one could say it leans toward the sarcastic angle since it’s never mentioned again in the ensuing forty years and his reaction many decades later to being asked the “are you gay” question is pretty much ambivalence and a hearty laugh. So, thank you commenters, this actually made me feel better.
Now, just for the heck of it: Howard the Duck, Sorcerer Supreme! (from Marvel Treasury Edition #12 via Essential Howard The duck #1)
Howard The Duck, Sorcerer Supreme
*As for the issue number error, you have my apologies. That’s what I get for scanning out of Marvel Masterworks after not having read the arc for a decade or so. Next time I won’t be so lazy and dig up the actual issue! (I don’t own the Marvel Treasury Edition issue for the above panel so deal with the black and white!)
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