The two best plausible ways to deny a sexual experience is either “I wasn’t awake” or “I was drunk” (same thing). Our drum has a wide range of tastes in dream fantasies, if by wide range we mean aggressively masculine men forcing grotesquely huge and distended cocks into him in singles, doubles, and groups everywhere in the world at any time.
Generally speaking drum is what is called a bottom in gay culture, someone who receives a cock somehow, somewhere. While in these daydreams, he is passive; however subsequently throughout the comics he is anything but passive. Through this Bill plays with and evolves the idea of the man with all the classic trappings of masculinity – hairy, bearded, mature genital endowed, thickly muscled – as someone who is gay and as happy receiving cock (perhaps more so) as he is giving one.
To put it lightly, that idea was somewhat new. From the ancient Roman sneering about receptive roles as “soft” to modern gay insults about the bottom, treating a character, a hero, a magnificent physical specimen as enjoying bottoming… It creates him as both sympathetic and more heroic. Bill comments on that on and off through the balance of his work.
