Avengers Arena gets big points for reflecting the diversity of the real world more than any other Marvel title. This issue made me smile specifically when Bloodstone all but came out of the closet, yet writer Dennis Hopeless threw in a curveball by showing that another character is not the gender they appeared to be. Are all shapeshifters automatically transexual? Was this person even a shapeshifter? I'm not sure, but I like that Hopeless' story raises these thought-provoking questions. You'd never have this come up in Avengers.
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