By Edgar Miraculous Dyer
Patrick Cleese...
Initially, when comic book uber-writer, Gail Simone, introduced him at the end of her "Rise Of The Olympian" arc in the WONDER WOMAN comic, I hated him. As a potential companion for the leading lady's gay, superhero brother...hated him. That he was also kinda' skinny sure didn't help his case with me!
He was so uncool. Straight-up hated Patrick Cleese.
I had no special consideration for the politics or history of what Gail Simone was attempting, here - the prospect of an interracial, LGBTQA duo becoming recurring characters in the Wonder Woman comic! That aside, I thought it was so unfair...unseemly ..to saddle Achilles - the ACHILLES - with a porn mansion realtor, Patrick Cleese, when the other heroes had hotty reporters, space cops and secret agents. Did I get it wrong...?
And am I onto something, here?
Considering this is a Gail Simone joint we're tripping off of, ..I think this cat could be MI6, Checkmate or some other spook shop - don't you? When Achilles (the titular Olympian) asks the boyishly handsome, collegiately dressed, black gent his name, ..he responds, "...Cleese. Patrick Cleese." Some of the other lines, Gail wrote for Cleese - the structure of them - sound a little like TV/film British dialect ..or British West Indian'ish, and I think it's deliberate. Is all of that parody or homage to James Bond's famous ice-breaker "Bond--James Bond..."?
"...She did, yes. Don't know why, exactly...your lordship..." See what I'm talking about? Gail Simone is a VERY deliberate being. She is not a wasteful storyteller. Maybe, it's nothing, ..and maybe, it's everything!
Who are you, Patrick Cleese? Will we ever know?
If Patrick Cleese is a badass, Black British (not a lot of them in comics), top secret government agent - maybe, with ARGUS or even the IADC - posing as a "realtor", ..I can dig that. I take back every terrible thing I ever said about the guy, ..even that stuff about him probably being Achilles's reincarnated nephew, Patroclus, ..which would be WAY creepy, anyway...
Eeu-uuww!
Seeing Achilles (Warkiller) and Cleese together looks like a TV series to me. A superhero action thriller? Captain America: Winter Soldier Meets Highlander? I can dig that, too. A superpowered Greek hero, who battles international terrorists and supernatural forces with a black James Bond and a three-eyed, flying elephant with two trunks - I'd watch it ..or read the comic! With the upcoming Wonderverse one-offs or back-ups, ..like the Siggy one, which Wonder-scribe Michael W. Conrad announced on Twitter, ..maybe a 'Warkiller' story will be one of them.
I think Gail had a good idea, though. Look alive, kangaliers!
Edgar Miraculous (Mel) Dyer, without his fine, coyote-hatin' Goldiweiller, Kirby (now moved on to that big, coyote-hatin' hate group in the Sky) continues a somewhat bleaker, dogless existence in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, DC. He has been an active member of the Latino Culture Council of the Capitol Area (El Consejo de Cultura Latina – La Zona del Capitolio) and the Kiwanis Club of Capitol Hill.
Hi, since when was Patroclus Achilles's nephew? They were second cousins (Patroclus was a first cousin of Achilles' father Peleus), and possibly lovers.
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