@bluebootyraider I get all of this, which is why I acknowledge that the art is homoerotic in nature - but Equius allowing himself to be dominated by the man at the top of his culture's social hierarchy is not deviance, it's hegemony, and the same kind of hegemony he himself enforces by trying to assert dominant control over the women in his life. Considering the story ultimately places Equius among the constituent parts of Lord English and Doc Scratch, surely if we're really to believe that Equius is solely and plainly a celebration of homosexual affection, it is the comic itself - rather than the HMTW commentators - drawing an implicitly homophobic bow between that and his manipulative tendencies?