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Deathwish #2 (Jan. 1995):
“Some Like It... Not!”
by Adam Blaustein, Yves Fezzani, J.H. Williams III, Jimmy Palmiotti

Deathwish #2

Title: “Some Like It... Not!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Jan. 1995

Publisher: DC Milestone Media
Written by: Adam Blaustein, Yves Fezzani
Art by: J.H. Williams III, Jimmy Palmiotti


5 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
Deathwish Deathwish (Wilton Johnson)
(lead character)
villain hero
CBR Scale: D obsessed with sex-related
crimes
[adventurer; vigilante] DC Milestone Media 11
Marisa Rahm Marisa Rahm
(lead character)
supporting character hero based on a real person
CBR Scale: M LGBT
[transexual] DC Milestone Media 7
Boots (James Gordon Staley) villain
  [albino] DC Milestone Media 4
Dini Torres supporting character
CBR Scale: M LGBT
Hispanic
[Marisa Rahm's transsexual lover; House of Luna's top diva]
DC Milestone Media 4
Kevin Thorne supporting character
CBR Scale: M anti-LGBT
[police] DC Milestone Media 2

Summary from now-defunct webpage at http://milestone.luthor.com/comics_detail.asp?ID=24&:

Marisa Rahm and Deathwish both are hunting Boots. Boots is killing occupants of the she-male houses througout Dakota. Dini, Marisa's lover, is getting tired of Marisa's obsession for Boots. Deathwish and Marisa meet to talk about Boots, while Boots starts to hunt for Dini. Deathwish also guns down Marisa's new partner Lt. Kevin Thorne, who is prejudiced toward gays and transexuals.