User blog comment:Ultimate Heatblast/Gay characters are way to underappreciated/@comment-1713281-20120925213629

None? I realize that LGBT is a strong demographic nowadays, but altering the history of a big name character to draw in LGBT viewers would just seem like pandering to me.

Besides, Marvel tried this before with terrible results. In 2003, they tried to bring back Rawhide Kid, a big name during the Western phase in the Golden Age, with Rawhide Kid Vol 3 on the MAX imprint. They retconned his history to make him a homosexual, and it was a disaster. It made sure to include every last offensive stereotype of homosexual men that they could think of, and it brought nothing but bad press.