Late to this game, my mom used to call me "Marco Polo Shirt", which lead to me being called "Marco". By my teenage years I had gotten uncomfortable with that and luckily moved away to a completely different area and was able to drop the "o" with little difficulty. I still have a couple of old friends who will forget and call me "Marco".

Edited by Marc Foxx on 18 November 2010 at 8:40am

Well, Al, I remember when I was around 13 and I was reading a New Mutants special drawn by Arthur Adams. In one page Doug Ramsey is talking about the cruel jokes kid made at school about mutants, and that he was afraid to confront them and tell them he was one of those mutants they were mocking.

By 13 I had already heard lots of bad comments about gays, and in that moment I just fell completely identified with that mutant character.

There were other things that appealed to me but that's a story for another time.

So much for the "it'll hurt morale" excuse, what's next?

Al, I admit that part of my love of comic books was seeing the muscular male form.  There were some artists on the LEGION who got Lightining Lad's package JUST right, if you know what I mean...

Now, as a kid, I didn't recognize that as a sex-thing, just that there was something VERY intriguing about it.  And those Mike Grell LEGION costumes...     I'm just saying...

But I think the same is true for straight boys.  I mean, I knew the girl's costumes were on the same level, but it didn't have the same affect on me. 

I enjoyed reading them more.  The hot bods were part of it, but I loved the stories more. 

Some of JB's X-Men stuff was pure cheesecake for me.  Storm in The Savage Land made my pants fit funny at times.