Not daydreaming anymore Bill’s drum in his later work initiates sex everywhere he can, but with Bill himself drawn in to comment on what’s happening directly, or through the character to the reader, punctuating the story. A way of writing frequently commented on in postmodern literature of the 80’s and 90’s, it was quite common in comic art decades before, and provides a contrast to the intensity of the action.
Situations here also tend to have partners who are also non-human, another interesting twist – a couple of sex robots, a demon or two. I could read into this a view of gay sex becoming mechanical or dehumanized, reflecting on the fact that drum himself realizes he’s not real. I could worry about gay men somehow like Pinocchio obsessing on becoming “real” men with all the implications of gay men not being real men.
Or I could simply enjoy the situations.
As Bill Ward frequently said, you can do whatever you want in a comic. Overthinking is probably not the order of the day.
