Posted on 11/20/2016 9:24:45 AM PST by Mandingo Conservative
We’ve got the goods on America Chavez, Marvel’s latest genre-busting superhero helping to transform the comic book business into the entertainment industry’s most surprising mecca of diverse leading characters. Chavez is the queer, ass-kicking Latina...We sat down with America Chavez writer Gabby Rivera, who first garnered fame as the author of Juliet Takes a Breath, a YA novel about a Puerto Rican lesbian...Gabby Rivera: "I work at an LGBTQ non-profit called GLSEN as a youth programs manager. I got an email from Marvel when I was at work. And I was like, whaaat?...America is from this Utopian dimension where I think it was all women. [She has two moms who] seemingly sacrificed themselves to protect both that world...Let’s talk about the title: America. That seems to have taken on new meaning since Donald Trump was elected president. What did the title mean to you now, after the election? GR: "I am still learning how to navigate this world, but to not include elements and emotions of what is going on would be a huge missed opportunity on my part — on our part. But it’s also a balance between connecting with people and alienating people. ‘Cause Latinos voted for Trump too. My family voted for Trump."
(Excerpt) Read more at refinery29.com ...
I will have nothing to do with Marvel.
I used to enjoy their series on Netflix.
Not anymore.
Why doesn’t Marvel come out with a ugly fat woman Superhero?
What ever happened to “Truth, Justice, and the American Way”?
Without artificial life support, this series will be extinct inside a year.
Pitiful.
“Surprising”? That adults obsessed with comic books enough to author the damn things skew queer? Not to me it isnt.
I just don’t understand the need to put everyone into smaller and smaller boxes with nice neat politically correct labels.
Who cares?
What they really look like
They’ve identified the 8 readers who will run out buy this comic series.
Stan Lee has done the impossible. He has shown “you can teach an old dog new tricks.” The wrong ones.
“...Marvel’s latest genre-busting superhero helping to transform the comic book business into the WAY TO INDOCTRINATE YOUNG READERS...”
There, fixed it.
This should sell as many copies as Hillary’s last book release.
How can they have a queer superhero, with no sex? Queers will probably claim its a queer right to be exposed to sex in comic books - and alright for queer kids to have sex, next,
I’ll be waiting for Super Patient Zero. /s
Speaking of Hillary’s latest book, I saw the Megan Kelly blockbuster in the discount rack at the local Menard’s (used to be a hardware store, now it wants to be everything. That didn’t take long.
Well, she is wearing comfortable shoes....
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