Uh...

[eliyes]

Quoting from this interview with Dan Didio:

In addition to Batwoman, Apollo and Midnighter, you’re also introducing a female bisexual African American superhero in Voodoo. Was it a conscious decision to introduce characters from across the LGBT spectrum?

Yes. What we really wanted to do was show the diversity of our audience across the line of our books. Right now we have such a wide fan base and we wanted to create characters and stories that really reflected [that] fan base.

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Gay League has posed the question of whether Voodoo was previously bisexual, but I'm asking whether they mean Priss at all. Because screw who she screws, since when is she African-American? That and the use of the word "introducing" makes me hope they're introducing a new character as part of Voodoo's support cast.

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[taichara]

I can guarantee you that if Pris is bi, it's a very very recent thing and seldom if ever referenced *points at hoard of WildCATs* and really, we both know exactly where the emphasis has always been with only minor distractions.

His name is Hadrian.

I could try and do the research and see if there's something I'm forgetting or if it's a more recent development as things go, but let's be honest; if Pris was bi from the get-go it sure as hell wasn't something being played on.

As for the African-American part, I also don't recall ever being explictly told her human genetic slushpile (the Kherubim/Daemonite hybrid part predictably gets the lion's share of the attention in the books) but given she's 1) obviously not pasty-pale Caucasian, 2) associated with New Orleans (though born elsewhere I believe) and 3) actually does use voudoun (granted this is Wildstorm, so it does involve zombies among other things) I think it's pretty safe to say that she's African-American or at least majority so as far as the human bits are concerned.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Poor Jeremy; he may never get over her digging Hadrian more than him, but that's love.

There might be a throwaway comment someplace about Pris possibly being bi, and I wouldn't be surprised if, if it exists, it's somehow related to her Coda training, but honestly it's not something I'd ever connected to her character before.

Nrrg. Maybe I was thrown by the blue eyes, and the face that they really do (for obvious reasons) concentrate more on her various alien heritages.

[taichara]

And it's not like he didn't know beforehand in any case. It really wasn't smart of him, but yeh -- love and all.

Yeh, I don't recall it either and I'd like to think I'd remember it if I came across it. I don't usually forget things like that.

*patpats* Black people can have blue eyes even without alien DNA --

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

*pats him on the shoulder*

*receives own pats* X3 I know, but that combined with the fact that she's usually coloured no darker than my mom late summer (which, granted, is dark enough to be treated like shit by snooty white folks in Louisiana) is probably why it never occurred to me.

Still, that word "introducing" might mean it's a different character. (Or it might just be because this is her first in-DC's-continuity book. *sigh*)

[taichara]

*grabs Alan Moore WildCATs omnibus as a random choice that actually has Pris in it* I think I have to argue that -- she's pretty obvious not just tanned, with the particular tone used, and really no different than many depictions of Storm that don't swap Ororo's complexion with Jubilee's.

"Introducing" might. But I really do think it's just because she's "new" to the DCU.

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I'll take a look through that omnibus, then. Oh man, do not get me started again on Jubilee or Ororo's complexions.

Probably. You would think I would be happy that a character I did like in WildCATs, for the most part, might become a representative of my letter of glbt, but I'm just... *grimace* They're changing her, and it makes me suspicious that it might not be for the best. What other ways might they change her?

[taichara]

Granted there's also been really bad colouring elsewhere that basically made Pris look Caucasian -- but see also that subject you don't want to talk about ;3

Given she looks to be losing her spine, it might be better not to ask how they might change her ...

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Effing colourists. X|

It's probably safest to assume none of the Wildstorm or Milestone characters are going to be much like their extant readers expect. And why not? You can say the same for most of the DC characters. (;_; Claaaaark)

[nagaina-ryuuoh.livejournal.com]

"Ambiguously Brown" is, I believe, the controlling idea when it comes to the "human" part of Pris' heritage.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AmbiguouslyBrown

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Tai is right, given her background it's not surprising for her to be very likely of mixed racial heritage (even ignoring the aliens).

(Isn't linking to TV Tropes a lot like offering someone drugs? XD I don't wanna get sucked in again! *clicks link anyway*)