Will Payton Starman is actually still my favorite DC character who I would consider to be inactive or essentially destroyed/deleted.

The standalone stuff was really quite good (and that last arc was mostly detached from the rest of the Ultraverse, so that was good, too).

My favorite issue is the one where he talks the lady out of killing herself.

I still want to track down a copy of Firearm #0 so I can watch the live action movie half of the story. That promises to be horrifically bad.

Now…where’s the Silver Sorceress and Wandjina?

Killed in the pages of JLI. Or possibly JLE. Blue Jay was the only survivor of that crowd.

I also liked Will Payton. Collected his series for, oh, thirty or forty issues. It wasn’t bad at all!

I could have sworn some other writer had offed him already.

Man, those two are easy – 1. Best selling titles at the time, snd 2. Yeah, I can’t wait for Jimmy to start cross-dressing again either!

Yeah, so you kinda see my point.

And actually, Taz made it very clear that he, himself, was gay, in an issue of Justice League Quarterly. Don’t ask me to dig it out. But it was there. Yes, Tasmanian Devil was gay and worked alongside an embassy ambassador who was gay himself. (and actually, Brian, I don’t know that they ever dated- gay guys can work together without ever being in a relationship.)

But yeah, I distinctly remember an issue of JLIQ where High Dawkins (Tasmanian Devil) confides that it’s easier, but still tough to be a gay super-hero. If he dated the JLI embassy chief, than lucky him- that guy seemed pretty cute.

I’m pretty sure Blue Jay was in the “Back In Action” story in Action Comics, just a few months after the Infinite Crisis/One Year Later transition in 2006. He was one of the heroes kidnapped by that Auctioneer character. So…really not in limbo that long.

It wasn’t “finally got pulled out of limbo,” it was “finally got pulled out of limbo to be killed.”

He’s made a couple of appearances since he first entered limbo in 1992.

Tasmanian Devil wasn’t gay. It was the JLI Australian embassy attache, or liason, or whatever, that was gay.

True.

Maggie Sawyer wasn’t gay, either. Just her girlfriend was.

I think what Brian was saying was that Blue Jay had been living on New Earth unmolested since 1992, not that he first appeared in 1992.

Bingo.

Bloody genius if you ask me.

…is Bluejay?

hat kind of purpose happens to a man when he’s spent a decade reading comments from people that “Nobody liked how Giffen turned the Justice League into a joke,” or, “Everyone has been waiting years for someone to undo the damage John Byrne did to Superman,” in opposition to all reasonable evidence.

Man, those two are easy – 1. Best selling titles at the time, snd 2. Yeah, I can’t wait for Jimmy to start cross-dressing again either!