![]() ![]() In addition, probably the main reason there are not many female characters is that romantic stories would in those times not be of great interest to what is in a boys magazine, after all, if you look at the magazine and comic scene of the time there were far more publications with some specifically for girls, so it's not as if there were no choices. In fact, if you look at the stories there are plenty references to the Vorgs themselves having had similiar 'barbaric' pasts with some of the ancient laws and the primitive medicines shown in the first story which was solved by Salvia (a female character I may add). ![]() Also, not every Trigan/Vorg was shown as a shining white (no pun intended) example, for example Yenni, the Trigan in the story that introduced the Hericons. At the same time the Hericons who were also 'non white' seem to be a fusion of the Byzantine and Persian empires and are shown to be very advanced technologically and culturally. The Gorths are meant to be in my mind representative of any 'barbarian horde' throughout history. I take a bit of issue with this, for one thing I am tired of the PC culture that is popping up everywhere, but to say that every non-white is a racial stereotype is extreme. ![]()
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