I reckon that it's Firestorm as an entity that characters find attractive. The body of a youthful athlete, but with an impulsiveness combined with mature intelligence. Stein is smart, but flawed in relationships. Raymond is a kid, but trying to do the right thing. It's together that they combine into something better. Somewhere that both men can work out their issues together. There was a subplot where Raymond was becoming smarter through his linking with Stein. Stein may have also been getting better at a number of things too. That would have been interesting to see continue.
What about Jimmy Olsen? He's gets involved in all sorts of extrovert mischief from often introverted beginnings. He thrives as a weirdness magnet. He'd forget about Lucy in a heartbeat if Donna came along.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
I've been trying to think of a reply, but all I keep coming up with is that tasteless, witless scene in Morrison/Quitely's "JLA Earth 2" graphic novel involving Superwoman and Jimmy Olsen and the broom closet.
Sorry, Thoth, I guess it's cause I've been under a bit of stress.
Maybe I should do another Those 70s Titans vignette, that'd cheer me up, and hopefully entertain some people as well.
It was going through my mind as I was typing. I forced it out, by thinking of Jimmy trying on the hats from his chest of hats Who isn't going to fall for that?
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
That was just after Star Spangled Kid (I tried SS-Kid to be lazy, but I'll not be doing that again. Right up there with A-SS for All-Star Squadron. What is wrong with these writers...) got the brush off from Jonni Thunder wasn't it? He looked a lot younger than her too in this one, but I think they had some sort of relationship in Infinity.
Notes on this scene:-
Star Spangled Kid was told about Donna by the JLA because... they are all total gossips. By declaring her marriage here, Wolfman is sneakily getting himself into the story through his proxy character. Wonder Girl would later to go into the Warp Zone to rescue Terry. But with all time becoming as one, Terry had already picked up younger women from across history. The resulting spin off book proposal, "Long's Legion of Lovelies" was vetoed by nearly everyone at the company. In a cut scene, Perez tried to show the AM ask the heroes at the dawn of time to at least let him rid the multiverse of Terry Long, but Wolfman stopped it. As the characters had to remember the old universe to give Crisis meaning, so Terry Long must survive or how else could Marv know about the event to write it? Terry Long's trans-temporal pick up mobile survived the Crisis and is now a creepier version of the Cosmic Treadmill. Terry Long's chest medallion, with its memories of the multiverse, would become the Medusa Medallion and launch Crisis 2.
"...not having to believe in a thing to be interested in it and not having to explain a thing to appreciate the wonder of it."
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