r/comics • Shen Comix • 4h ago

OC The Boy From Venus 16

It's super cozy and warm in the box btw.

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u/Useful-Reality-6536 4h ago

Can someone tell me the cannon genders of these two? I haven't seen all the comics and honestly can't tell (not in a bad way)

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u/winntpooh 4h ago

AFAIK

Val (the one with glasses) is a woman.

Audrey is a man who just dresses effeminately, but still goes by he/him.

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u/Sunim416 2h ago

But correct me if im wrong, and at first glance it defintely seems that way, but I always thought Val was "The Boy from Venus"

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u/KRD2 1h ago

Nah The Boy from Venus is Audrey. Venus is associated with femininity and beauty due to it being the name of the Roman equivalent of Aphrodite. This then laid the groundwork for the phrase "men are from Mars, women are from Venus" to highlight the difference between men and women being so large that they essentially come from separate planets.

Audrey being "a boy from Venus" means he is a guy who is steeped in the feminine and all that it classically means.