Posted on 09/13/2025 9:46:01 AM PDT by ducttape45
Earlier this week, Charlie Kirk, was shot dead while speaking at an event at a university in Utah.
While responding to a question about gun violence in the U.S., a single bullet struck Kirk in the neck, seemingly killing him instantly. The shooter, Tyler Robinson, 22, has since turned himself in and is likely facing the death penalty.
The news of Kirk’s death has seen many notable figures chime in, but it was those from author Gretchen Felker-Martin that sparked outrage in the world of comic books. After taking to social media to mock, and some might even say celebrate, Kirk’s shooting, the transgender writer was fired by DC Comics. Her series, Red Hood, was subsequently cancelled after one issue (which went on sale the same day that Kirk was killed).
Talking to The Comics Journal, Felker-Martin made it clear that she stands by her comments, but did express sympathy for the Red Hood creatives no longer working on the series. "I had no regrets for what I said about [Kirk]. [Kirk’s murder] just didn’t strike me as an especially hot flashpoint. This is such a loathsome person. Everyone on the entire internet is talking about how pleasant it is that he got his."
"I saw that he had died in the middle of spreading more of the bigotry that he spent his every waking moment promulgating, and in a way that he had advocated for others to die, and felt nothing but contempt for his life," the writer continued. "I mean, this is a man who I’ve watched for years go on television and on enormous stages and convention halls and say that me and everyone like me should be stoned to death."
Claims that Kirk advocated for gay people to be stoned to death have been widely disputed, with author Stephen King recently apologising for suggesting the activist said what Felker-Martin describes above.
Gretchen Felker-Martin has often courted controversy online, sharing divisive remarks about the September 11 terrorist attacks and the Israel-Palestine conflict. Still, she says that she warned DC something like this could happen, despite being asked to be mindful of her social media posts.
"I can only put it down to really just a moment of poor impulse control. Had I thought for another second, of course I would've known [that it would be a problem for DC], and naturally, as soon as I had said it, I did know," Felker Martin said, confirming she received a call from DC Editor in Chief Marie Javins, who told her, "'The story of the issue's release had gone from being celebratory to something that DC and Warner Brothers couldn't stand behind or defend,'" and that "any kind of promotion of violence or harm is unacceptable to them."
"I said that I've listened to Charlie Kirk being an overt Nazi for years of my life, and I had no regrets for what I said about him," Felker-Martin added.
"At DC Comics, we place the highest value on our creators and community and affirm the right to peaceful, individual expression of personal viewpoints," the publisher said in a statement on Thursday. "Posts or public comments that can be viewed as promoting hostility or violence are inconsistent with DC’s standards of conduct."
This week has seen those on both sides of the political spectrum come together to condemn this type of violence, and no matter whether you supported or reviled Kirk's outlook, it does rather feel like the former Red Hood writer crossed a line.
Dang it man, I just ate....
The Germans even have a word for it.
"Backpfeifengesicht".
The only image in my mind of a Red Hood...
is that of a unstable lunatic in a RED HOODIE
stabbing an innocent young girl to death !!!
ROBINSON DID NOT TURN HIMSELF IN-—
OTHERS TURNED HIM IN.
HOW BASIC A DIFFERENCE IS THAT???
A TOTAL NON-STARTER
WHO DOES HER EYE MAKEUP?
A MOCKINGBIRD???
Not merely a dude in a dress, a fat, ugly, repulsive, and quite likely psychotic dude in a dress.
I hope it hurt a lot when he got his male parts cut off.
This alleged “person” is of much less international stature than Stephen King, who has already had to grovel an apology about repeating the heinous lie about stoning homosexuals.
The editor who hired him was also a troon, formerly Nick Turturro, son of the actor John Turturro. He transitioned during a round of mass layoffs and kept his job...
Warner should just shut the comic division down. It’s all trash. When I was a kid DC comics were wholesome and had good messages.
Uses all the classic slander hate words: fascist, Nazi, bigot, etc. Watching Kirk’s debates with people like this, you see they cannot even form coherent sentences. Asked to justify their social media-generated “opinions,” they can’t even respond.
Charlie Kirk never to my knowledge uttered a hateful word, he never shouted down any who would come to speak to him.
He would say "Tell me what I say that you think was racist, or sex, or mean to the alphabet people or trans?"
One after another the left, the democrats the alphabet people and transgendered would have to walk away with their head down because they could never show he had said or done anything of the kind. They could never refute anything he said.
So because he would not be cowed, because he would not be silenced by their lame claims of bias and victim-hood they as the left always, ALWAYS do. They vilified him, they demonized him by making false statements about him lying about him.
Then with that hate reach full measure one of their sick hate filled animals assassinated Charlie Kirk.
But now the left is shaking in their Gucci brand jackboots, antifa is cowering in the shadows.
What they have done was to open everyone eyes and now the bright light of full day is on them.
Charlie Kirk was every man, he always had a smile and was happy to meet and shake the hand of any he met. He spoke truth and never said a hateful thing to anyone.
He will be missed and his passing will write a new chapter in Americas history.
“It’s a dude in a dress”
I see it a bit differently...
It’s a feral male hog in a dress.
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