So, someone on the theauthority community on livejournal posts a review they did of Midnighter #6, which they say reads like yaoi AU.
One of their complaints (which they admit is nitpicking) is that the narrative is peppered with blatant disgust by the surrounding samurai class characters that Japanese Midnighter is in love with a man. Me, I figured that was going to be par for the course, right?
Turns out I’m wrong and that “one of the fundamental aspects of samurai life was the emotional and sexual bond cultivated between an older warrior and a younger apprentice, a love for which the Japanese have many names, as many perhaps as the Eskimo have for snow.”
While I’m still confused at the idea of an Elseworlds Wildstorm story and don’t think that Midnighter and Apollo are really all that made for yaoi, a genre that to me means a story with a homosexual relationship primarily written for women by women, I’ll pick up the issue and see what the issue says.
I’m just in it for the kicks. And explosions.
