Hello and welcome to all @CharactersOfDC. Our June session is a special one in celebration of Pride Month. Several clubs have banned together to present various characters and creatives that are members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Please feel free to check out what the other clubs are doing this month here.
C OF DC IS PROUD TO PRESENT OUR CHARACTERS OF THE MONTH:
MIDNIGHTER AND APOLLO!
PRIDE PROFILE (See Below)
I would like to thank @msgtv of the DC History Club for providing the Pride Profile in a post below for these two characters. Thank you for all your hard work.
Pride Profile: Apollo and Midnighter. What started as part satire, part over the top â90s action comics, developed into something more when this pair of worldâs finest became the most prominent gay couple in comics. Created by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch for WildStormâs Stormwatch, they were not revealed as being in love until the follow-on series The Authority. Apollo, an aptly named solar powered superhero, would seem something of the opposite of the dark, ultra-violent Midnighter. But, through multiple reboots and universes these two exemplify a stable loving relationship in a world that is anything but stable or loving. Midnighter has also seen some solo success appearing in his own title and the spy thriller Grayson.
Grayson was my favorite Midnighter appearance as well @msgtv.
Thanks for putting up the Pride Profile in the topic for me. I had so many tech issues with this one that I didnât pick up the Pride Profile like I had planned to. Love that Apollo and Midnighter pic you used.
My favorite Midnighter appearances are from The Authority v1, followed by his DC You ongoing, especially the issue where he says âSmile @sshole.â to Deadshot as he kicks him square in the head.
On images, I had selected others by the process @Mae correctly identified as âgrabbing something off Googleâ our esteemed graphic artist who I want to name but Iâm not sure if thatâs cool or not deserves credit for all the headlining images on the profiles. And, sheâs till toiling away in the image mine, so more to come as time goes by.
However, if you read Midnighter #9 (I believe thatâs where he faceplanted his boots into Deadshotâs head), he wasnât exactly giving a damn about poor form at the moment.
Anyone who may be interested is welcome to read The Authority (1999) issues 23-26 if they wish even though I did not list them. I was mainly only interested in the âBrave New Worldâ four parter and not the bit in between.
Hereâs some interesting tidbits about this storyline from The Authority.
Contrary to popular belief Midnighter and Apollo were the first gay couple to be married in a comic. DCâs worthy competition likes to claim they had the first marriage with Northstar but that one happen ten years after Apollo and Midnighter tied the knot in The Authority #29.
Mark Millarâs run on the title was rift with editorial censorship from the start both because of his wanting to take the relationship between the two characters further (a kiss between the two was censored at one point) and because of the 9/11 attacks, which had a profound effect on a lot of media at the time.
After issue #22 came out there was an extremely long delay in the completion of this storyline as well as between issue 22 and 23.