Mark Millar's 'Nemesis' Calls You Out On Your Lack Of Uterus
For those keeping track, there's a new gay comics character to include in your rainbow compendium, but it's your call on what to think of this minor character. He's the son of Chief Blake Morrow, the good guy to Mark Millar's "Nemesis" mini-series. This week's Issue 3 ramps up the trademark Millar disgust when Nemesis challenges the Chief on a grueling psychological level, insulting and threatening his family life. The anti-hero kidnaps the chief's kids and forces Morrow to acknowledge his wife's affair, his son's closested homosexuality, and the fact that his daughter had previously had an abortion. In return for the Chief's cooperation, Nemesis releases the kids, but not before inseminating Morrow's daughter with his son's juice and- wait for it- rigging her uterus to collapse should anyone attempt an abortion. Great villain, eh? He's ruined Morrow in the long run. Consider that Nemesis is a family-driven villain, traumatized by his father's judicial demise and swearing a vendetta on Blake Morrow. His proposition leaves Morrow with the choice of grandfathering an inbred, or being stuck with no reproductive offspring, which Nemesis would see as a huge kick to the 'nads. I can't be personally offended by such a situation, but I think there's a suggested challenge to the legitimacy of homosexual pairing within the ultimatum Nemesis makes. Morrow does state he loves his son regardless of his orientation, and it's less to do with homophobia and more with equating adopted children with the genetically inferior. Though this isn't as if Millar hasn't done incestuous deviants many times before. Could be I'm overreacting, but there's something to chew on.
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Posted to editorial on 24 September 2010
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Sometimes I wonder what it would be like being Mark Millar's therapist and then I think it would be a lot like being that kid from SLC Punk, the one who runs through the sprinklers with a book of acid in his pants pocket and spends the rest of his life trapped in a bad trip.
Uterus? Collapse? Are we talking about a mineshaft here? Maybe if he had one, Millar would know how ridiculous this threat is.