The De-Gaying Of Arthur Suydam’s Cholly And Flytrap Bleeding Cool Comic Book News and Rumors
Hmm. It’s unclear to me exactly what’s going on in this revision, because I haven’t read either the original or the revised version of the book. But this does seem rather strange and worth investigating.
So if I understand correctly, in the original version two characters were portrayed as male and engaged in a homosexual relationship. In the revised version, although one character continues to refer to the other as a “boy,” that character now claims to be a girl. So instead of a “normal” homosexual relationship, we have either: a) a delusional homosexual man in a relationship with a girl he thinks is actually a boy, or b) a relationship between a man and a transgendered character who identifies as female, but whom the other character refuses to acknowledge as such.
Rich Johnston says that this looks like a case of “orientation cleansing,” but I think without further investigation it’s hard to label it as such. It’s definitely a different interpretation of the characters, but for all we know this may have been the author’s original intent and maybe it wasn’t clear enough in the first version, so he decided to edit the text to make it more obvious.
If anybody has read either the original or the revised version, I’d love to have your insight on this.