- Batman #84 (June, 1954)
Posted on 06/30/2015 12:59:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When I was a young boy, I and Julio—not the one from down by the school yard, but the illegal Guatemalan refugee who lived with us for a while—used to enjoy watching “Wonder Woman” together. I enjoyed seeing a superhero dish out justice. Julio’s motivations may have been a tad different. We are talking Lynda Carter’s incarnation, after all.
Of course, this was problematic, and not for the reasons laid out here. Wonder Woman, while a woman, was ostensibly a straight woman. At least I think she was. Again, I was seven years old. But Julio, despite his limited understanding of English, was a really big fan. Maybe he, like me, just enjoyed seeing a superhero dish out justice. Or maybe he, like the adult me and my feelings on the Scarlet Witch from “Age of Ultron,” enjoyed Wonder Woman for her ancillary talents, those not directly related to meting out justice.
That is even more problematic, because while Wonder Woman was a woman, she was also a cis-woman, and that costume just screamed heteronormativity. Imagine how much improved my life would be had Zak Cheney-Rice of Mic been around to dispense some truth back in my formative years.
Does Spider-Man’s Contract Say He Has to Be Emo?
Writing in response to Stan Lee’s insistence, actually enforced by contract, that Spider-Man be white and heterosexual, Cheney-Rice laments, “Sure, Spider-Man was white and heterosexual at the time of his creation. But his creator was a white man working in commercial comics in America in the early 1960s. Was there ever really a chance he could’ve turned out any different?”
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You want to make a big gay superhero? Then go ahead and make one. Just don’t butcher someone else’s artistic creation to push your politics.
What?
The Gay Supremacists are on the march!
The gay agenda is about domination and control.
What a lot of hand-wringing over nothing. “Oh my gosh, someone might look at Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter) and have heterosexual thoughts about her!”
This "cis-" stuff is stupid. Hence, my new tagline.
My theory is that anything original which the illiberal leftists create to push A Message tends to go over with the general public like a lead balloon. So they have to co-opt someone else's good ideas to buy themselves credibility.
- Batman #84 (June, 1954)
But what's a phone booth?
How did he manage to type that without puking?
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By Associated Press
07/14/2014
The famous freckle-faced comic book icon is meeting his demise in Wednesday’s installment of Life with Archie when he intervenes in an assassination attempt on Kevin Keller, Archie Comics’ first openly gay character. Andrews’ death, which was first announced in April, will mark the conclusion of the series that focuses on grown-up renditions of Andrews and his Riverdale pals.
“The way in which Archie dies is everything that you would expect of Archie,” said Jon Goldwater, Archie Comics publisher and co-CEO. “He dies heroically. He dies selflessly. He dies in the manner that epitomizes not only the best of Riverdale but the best of all of us. It’s what Archie has come to represent over the past almost 75 years.”
Keller’s character first joined Veronica Lodge, Betty Cooper, Jughead Jones and Reggie Mantle in the Archie Comics spin-off Veronica in 2010. He later appeared in his own solo title.
In Life with Archie, Kevin Keller is a married military veteran and newly elected senator who’s pushing for more gun control in Riverdale after his husband was involved in a shooting.
http://www.people.com/article/archie-dies-saving-gay-best-friend-comics
like increased risk of getting contagious diseases and lower life expectancy.
This has to be satire.
I remember there used to be some Christian Archie Comics.
LMAO Superhero of what? Not macho and muscles....super sensitivity man?
Batman #84 (June, 1954)
Re: Dick Grayson, Ward of Batman
I had no knowledge of actual comic strip being so homosexually provocative. Batman and a male youth waking up and sharing the same bed?
It appears there may have been validity for conservatives to rail against comic book trash damaging American youth.
Gay is the new god Baal. All must bow or be killed.
If they were all homos, capes would be required. We all know how that works out.
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