"HE'S NOT GAY, HE'S A FAIRY!!!"

[eliyes]

I inadvertently bought that issue of Alpha Flight today. Also the one where Walter gets turned back into a dude (note: it is still Snowbird's body!) which is just not very good at all. Of all the AF I bought today, the one where Kara Killgrave brings Northstar back to Mansion Alpha is one of my faves.

Regardless of the book, I did notice something. Everyone does a lot of ragging on JP all the time. Walter, yes, all the damned time. Heather. Puck. Maddie. The only one who likes him unreservedly is Kara, in fact.

Northstar: *saves Kara's mom from baddies*
Kara's Mom: Oh my -- you're Jean-Paul Beaubier! My daughter has posters of you all over her room!
Northstar: How flattering. -_-

It's no wonder he's a bitch to you guys, people! Try not being a complete jerk to him all the time! Fortunately things will get friendlier later.

The twins have this adorable "shouting something in unison" thing going on when Ernest St. Ives came back. X3

I look at the older issues, long long before JP was officially outed, and I wonder if the artists were told to draw his body language as coming across gay. I really do. There are poses and gestures he gets drawn doing that the other guys don't, but some of the girls do.

Comments

[justlikemagic.livejournal.com]

I just cannot believe all the innuendo in those issues. Yeah, they did rag on hi, but he was an arrogant little beast (as seen in his back story in issue 10 I think - the whole "I only speak French" part, can we say snarky?) so I think he probably pissed everyone off upon meeting them and the retaliated.

But I LOVE Northstar. Until you know who got his hands on him. Except for the crush on Iceman, I liked that part.

[serenity-ca4.livejournal.com]

I bought a stack of Alpha flight, I think the first couple of years, and hit the one where the original writer left, you know.. the one where they're in an epic battle, and Jean-Paul and Jeanne-Marie are sitting in a corner crying their eyes out over (a-not-even-dead-yet) Walter while everyone else is fighting for their lives.

Yeah... I was a bit disgusted... and it only got worse from there, so I never did finish reading the whole stack. Sigh.

As for the artistry and JP's sexuality, yeah, that was intentional. JP's artist and authors conceived him as gay long before they were ever allowed to actually say it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northstar (see the section on sexuality)