Wonder Woman #15 introduced the newly redesigned Orion, but along with him was Milan, a son of Zeus and, it would follow, Wonder Woman’s half-brother.
What makes this supporting player so interesting is that Milan bears a strong resemblance to an underground icon, singer-songwriter, and lover of joyrides, the late Wesley Willis. For those familiar with Willis’ oeuvre, this development truly whips the llama’s ass with a belt. He was a Chicago outsider artist and musician who gained a cult following in the 1990s, putting out records on Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra’s Alternative Tentacles label and Rick Rubin’s American Records. A paranoid schizophrenic equipped with a microphone and a Technics keyboard, Willis’ songs focused mainly on riding the bus, going to rock n’ roll shows and getting beat up by superheroes and the police. A mix of scatlogical humor, stream-of-consciousness rambling, and blinding honesty, Willis was a true original, churning out songs by the truckload. Willis usually ended each song by yell-rapping some corporate slogan or jingle, and would often flip the script by beating up the superheroes.
Here’s his slightly NSFW song, “I Whupped Spider-Man’s Ass.”
Willis passed away in 2003 from complications related to leukemia. But by all the evidence presented in the last couple issues of Wonder Woman, he’s alive and well in the New 52 DC Universe, where he’s the half-brother of Princess Diana of Themyscira.
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