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« on: May 21, 2012, 09:57:34 PM » |
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“One of the major iconic DC characters will reveal that he is gay in a storyline in June”
That’s the comment DC’s Senior VP Publicity Courtney Simmons gave to ABC News from Burbank when asked for comment on the story we ran yesterday, that DC were to reintroduce a preexisting character into the New DCU, and changing their sexual orientation in the process. It caused quite the stir.
linkthe first openly gay mainstream superhero was Northstar, reinterpreted as gay by his creator John Byrne in the eighties, but only officially stated as gay by writer Scott Lobdell in the nineties, and Marvel is expected to announce Northstar’s engagement to his boyfriend, Kyle,on ABC’s The View tomorrow. Lobdell recently created a new gay DC character in the recent relaunched comic Teen Titans. Image Comics and Wildstorm published comics in the noughties featuring gay couple Midnighter and Apollo, based on Batman and Superman, something that was played down and censored when DC bought Wildstorm, though eventually the pair were allowed to marry in the comics, in a ceremony conducted by a fictitious version of Ellen DeGeneres. Of late both Marvel and DC have significantly increased the number of LGBT characters, prominently in books such as Young Avengers, Batwoman, 52 and Astonishing X-Men, and even Archie Comics has featured prominent gay characters and earlier this year a mixed-race military gay wedding. And then there is the British superhero comic Spandex, featuring noting but gay characters!
Things have come a long way since the only gay people in mainstream superhero comics were the bad men who tried to sexually assault Bruce Banner…
linkyep, we've come a long way.... Gay characters in comic books what progress |
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Hippies smell bad. Go away, hippie.
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« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2012, 10:04:26 PM » |
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Yeah, that's gonna increase sales.
Sure.
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« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2012, 10:17:12 PM » |
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Hasn't this been done already?
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"All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void."
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« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2012, 11:32:33 PM » |
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At least the Pilgrims had a place to escape to.
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[The banking catastrophe] can happen anywhere in the world, [here] because you have more people that vote for a living than people that work for a living.
The wealthy in the United States should “be prepared to lose 20 to 30 percent. I think you’re lucky if you don’t lose your life.” - Mark Faber
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« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2012, 11:44:50 PM » |
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At least the Pilgrims had a place to escape to.
you got that right |
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Libertas
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« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2012, 06:31:22 AM » |
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This says something about comic book writers...  |
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I iz also makin a list. U on it pal.
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« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2012, 06:37:36 AM » |
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Yeah, it's an Allah-pain-in-my-ass piece, so he says to "lighten up" on the oxymoronic confirmed/might. And it might not even be Superman. Makes sense. He’s got the build, the fashion sense, and just maybe the gaydar-pinging facial structure. And yet — no one’s sure yet that he’s the one who’s coming out. All we know is that it’s a male, that it’ll happen next month, and that he’s “one of the major iconic DC characters.” I'm on pinth and needleth, I tell ya. From "the folks at DC Comics" - ... it’s the latest effort to make sure their comics keep up with the times.
Last September, DC Comics relaunched its entire line of comic books to feature an updated look and a new lineup of LGBT superheroes: including Voodoo, an African American bisexual woman and Batwoman, an open lesbian…
“DC and (archrival) Marvel are recognizing that there is an LGBT audience that has been reading their comics for years,” said Matt Kane, associate director of entertainment and media for GLAAD. “When creating these fictional worlds it’s important to show the full diversity.”
Aside from making good business sense, Kane said younger readers are perfectly comfortable with gay characters and expect to see their peers represented. They are? So what's with all the "anti-bullying" bullsht, then? |
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"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer." - Mark Twain
"Let us assume for the moment everything you say about me is true. That just makes your problem bigger, doesn't it?"
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« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2012, 01:55:44 PM » |
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 me^^ from all the clamoring for gay comic book characters--it's getting too loud /
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« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2012, 05:11:47 PM » |
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Great......"gayman", superweirdo.
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« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2012, 09:50:10 PM » |
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Great......"gayman", superweirdo.
Lol. Thuperman. (Not mine - I saw it somewhere.) |
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"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer." - Mark Twain
"Let us assume for the moment everything you say about me is true. That just makes your problem bigger, doesn't it?"
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« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2012, 10:05:06 PM » |
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Great......"gayman", superweirdo.
Lol. Thuperman. (Not mine - I saw it somewhere.) The green horny |
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I'm not always engulfed in scandals, but when I am, I make sure I blame others.
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« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2012, 10:10:57 PM » |
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Wonder Woman; Where does she fit in?  |
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[The banking catastrophe] can happen anywhere in the world, [here] because you have more people that vote for a living than people that work for a living.
The wealthy in the United States should “be prepared to lose 20 to 30 percent. I think you’re lucky if you don’t lose your life.” - Mark Faber
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« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2012, 06:06:35 AM » |
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Great......"gayman", superweirdo.
Lol. Thuperman. (Not mine - I saw it somewhere.) The green horny The Gay Super Lumberjack ... "Spruce" ! |
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« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2012, 06:54:25 AM » |
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Great......"gayman", superweirdo.
Lol. Thuperman. (Not mine - I saw it somewhere.) The green horny The Gay Super Lumberjack ... "Spruce" ! Underdogged |
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« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2012, 11:42:13 AM » |
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Wonder Woman; Where does she fit in? Wonder woman used the magic lasso. |
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I'm not always engulfed in scandals, but when I am, I make sure I blame others.
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« Reply #15 on: May 23, 2012, 11:46:48 AM » |
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Wonder Woman; Where does she fit in? Wonder woman used the magic lasso. Giddyup! |
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GOP? - Nope. No more. They made their bed, now let them die in it.*
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« Reply #16 on: May 23, 2012, 12:05:07 PM » |
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Be careful or we'll get on the libs gaydar.
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« Reply #17 on: May 23, 2012, 12:17:58 PM » |
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Wouldn't that be interesting...
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« Reply #18 on: May 23, 2012, 04:26:11 PM » |
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[The banking catastrophe] can happen anywhere in the world, [here] because you have more people that vote for a living than people that work for a living.
The wealthy in the United States should “be prepared to lose 20 to 30 percent. I think you’re lucky if you don’t lose your life.” - Mark Faber
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