Posted on 05/21/2012 12:30:40 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
DC Comics plans to reintroduce a character as gay, comic blog BleedingCool.com reports.
DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio announced the plans over the weekend at Kapow Comic Convention in London, saying that the existing superhero who was previously assumed to be straight will be "one of our most prominent gay characters." He did not specify in which issue the reveal will occur.
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The news comes a year after DiDio told The Advocate that he only intends to introduce new characters in the DC universe as gay rather than make existing ones gay. Of the change in plans, DC Comics Senior VP Bob Wayne told BleedingCool.com that DiDio's view "has evolved," echoing President Barack Obama's recent endorsement of same-sex marriage.
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We’ve certainly come a long way from, “Truth, Justice, and the American Way!”
Hi... I’m Batman.... Wana’ see my bat cave?...
All the comic book superheroes are homosexual.
Yeah, probably.
Mark my words: not if it's Wonder Woman.
Yeah, but Superman saved tens of millions in taxes by renouncing his US citizenship.
The boys and young men that buy DC 'superhero' comics may be brainwashed by the public schools and the media that being 'gay' is just dandy but as far as I can tell, it's still considered an insult for one teen-age boy to call another (both presumably heterosexual) 'gay'. That indicates the reality is that boys still know that wanting sex with another guy is wrong and probably repulsive to most of them. Thus, adding a 'gay' character to the DC comic stable will likely turn off the majority of that company's prospective consumers. Maybe Obama will bail DC comics out when they crater. Oh, wait, he won't be president by then.
“Batting Both Ways” Man
I would say Green Arrow. I think he had pacifist views in the past.
I figured Wonder Woman, come on she was raised by
Amazons!
And how much longer will it be before we have a
transgender super hero/ine?
Oh good grief! The comic books are not usually about with whom the characters are having sex. It’s of absolutely no importance to the stories, unless the writer is pushing an agenda, in which case it’s not a comic book, it’s propaganda.
My mild curiosity is whether this "superhero" is going to be on the Gotham Turnpike, servicing a Glory Hole in a rest stop mens room.
I always thought that was the ultimate in the romance of homosexual behavior. Odd that it never gets the publicity it deserves...
Really, who cares about comic book characters? I never understood the interest by anyone over the age of 12. In today’s environment, I doubt anyone UNDER the age of, oh, 40, cares. Collectors and guys in their 40’s who still live in mom’s basement maybe.
Sorry, this silly in and out of the closet/commie/enviro whacko trend that everyone keeps writing about creeping into comic books - what power do they have over anything or anyone that we don’t grant them? If a tree in a forest is cut down to print a comic book, do I give a...., ah, never mind.
I say ditch the dime store comics and read Melville.
/rant off
LOL!
Henceforth known as AC/DC Comics.
Maybe she wanted to meet Rahm Emmanuel?
Oh, wait, that was Man's Country, wasn't it?
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