Also Archie got some gay character, I understand.
“Superhero powers activate..! Form of: ice dildo...!”
DC made one of the Green Lanterns gay on the new 52, and Archie got a gay character named Kevin Keller.
Posted on 09/05/2013 6:51:06 PM PDT by Kip Russell
DC Comics' Batwoman is losing its two co-authors.
In a blog post late Wednesday, co-authors J.H. Williams and W. Haden Blackman wrote that they'd be exiting the comic after Issue 26 is released in December, citing creative difficulties with DC.
Batwoman was relaunched in 2010 as a stand-alone series that told a new origin story about female Caped Crusader Kate Kane (aka Batwoman), this time a member of the U.S. Military Academy who was forced to leave after allegations arose that she was gay. Rather than hide her sexual orientation, she opted to leave the academy.
"In recent months, DC has asked us to alter or completely discard many long-standing storylines in ways that we feel compromise the character and the series," Williams and Blackman wrote. "We were told to ditch plans for Killer Croc's origins; forced to drastically alter the original ending of our current arc, which would have defined Batwoman's heroic future in bold new ways; and, most crushingly, prohibited from ever showing Kate and Maggie actually getting married. All of these editorial decisions came at the last minute, and always after a year or more of planning and plotting on our end."
The duo noted that they pitched the first five arcs of the comic before the first issue of the relaunched DC title was even written and rather than make drastic changes to their story, have opted to exit the comic.
"We’ve always understood that, as much as we love the character, Batwoman ultimately belongs to DC," they wrote. "However, the eleventh-hour nature of these changes left us frustrated and angry -- because they prevent us from telling the best stories we can. So, after a lot of soul-searching, we’ve decided to leave the book after Issue 26. We’re both heartbroken over leaving, but we feel strongly that you all deserve stories that push the character and the series forward. We can’t reliably do our best work if our plans are scrapped at the last minute, so we’re stepping aside. We are committed to bringing our run to a satisfying conclusion and we think that Issue 26 will leave a lasting impression."
The news comes after February's groundbreaking 17th issue of the Batwoman, in which Kate proposed to her girlfriend, Maggie Sawyer. It marked the first lesbian wedding proposal in the history of mainstream comics. Since its start, the series has been a champion for gay rights, foreshadowing the overturn of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Batwoman also represents DC's latest exploration of LGBT storylines. (Iconic comic character Green Lantern came out as gay in a June, 2012 issue.) For its part, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation awarded Batwoman with the award for outstanding comic book in 2012.
In a series of follow-up tweets, Williams clarified what he saw as DC's position on the marriage issue. "We fought to get them engaged, but were told emphatically no marriage can result," he wrote, adding that it "was never put to us as being anti-gay marriage." Fellow DC Comics creator Gail Simone suggested that "it's more of an anti-marriage thing in general," to which Williams agreed. (It's worth noting that not only was Superman's marriage to Lois Lane undone when the publisher relaunched the character in 2011, but a plotline featuring an engaged Bruce Wayne was rumored to have been killed at the last minute last year.)
Williams and Blackman are far from the first creators to resign from a DC series over editorial decisions; over the last couple of years, DC has seen a number of writers leave titles for similar reasons, including James Robinson, Rob Liefeld, Andy Diggle and Joshua Fialkov, with the latter being notable for his leaving before even writing one issue of his run on either the Green Lantern Corps or Red Lanterns series.
For his part, Williams may be leaving Batwoman but he is not leaving DC as a whole. He confirmed that he would still be illustrating Neil Gaiman's Sandman: Overture series for the publisher's Vertigo imprint, explaining that "this problem has nothing to do with anything involving Sandman or Vertigo."
When contacted for comment, a DC spokesman said "As acknowledged by the creators involved, the editorial differences with the writers of Batwoman had nothing to do with the sexual orientation of the character."
Read Williams and Blackman's complete post, below:
(rest of article follow at link)
Can they do that for normal people? I've got a list....
/johnny
And All Spider-man had to do was make a deal with the Devil.
AH, Aren't Modern Comics so much fun?
Didn’t they do up the Green Hornet (or some black superhero) as GAY..?
Also Archie got some gay character, I understand.
“Superhero powers activate..! Form of: ice dildo...!”
So the world has to live without a comic book character who defines themselves by the type of sex they prefer. Somehow the world will manage t stumble along.
Also Archie got some gay character, I understand.
“Superhero powers activate..! Form of: ice dildo...!”
DC made one of the Green Lanterns gay on the new 52, and Archie got a gay character named Kevin Keller.
Batman. A rich guy, insane, no super powers and a little butt-buddy. That was gay in itself.
A lesbian in tights, a mask with pointy ears, a ‘utility belt’, high heels and PMS. Holy cow.
Now I now why the Marvel guys were snickering at those of us with our DC Legion of Super Heros.
Alan Scott, the Green Lantern of Earth-2.
Pre-gay version:
Post-gay version:
Archie got a gay character named Kevin Keller.
In "Life With Archie" (the "future history" version of Archie), Kevin Keller has already gotten married.
Must... Suppress... Response...
Modern life is so complicated.
In the meantime, Catman will be filling in until the authors get over themselves.
Once it was "the love that dare not speak its name", today it is "the love that will not shut the hell up."
Well...a devil. Mephisto of Marvel Comics isn't Lucifer as such, but rather just one of many demonic beings.
On the other hand, Lucifer does appear in DC Comics, even to the extent of getting his own series...
All things being equal, Lucifer is a much more interesting character than Mephisto. Mephisto wears his evil on his sleeve, as it were. "Bwah-ha-ha, I'm eeeeeevil!" Lucifer, on the other hand, is subtle.
Gross, we are so screwed.
LOL! I would think that marriage would put a damper on being a super hero. They are always on call and you can’t risk a trainload of people dying because you’re changing diapers.
Because Spider Man writers fear change of a character growing up.
It appears the only ones reading comics these days are the homos. ALL of the characters are coming out of the closet. Whodda thunk that they’d ALL be “born that way. The comic book industry is becoming a bigger joke than the sexual deviant industry.
Fair point!
Because Spider Man writers fear change of a character growing up.
At the time the storyline was coming out, I recall him saying something to the effect of, "Look...Spider-Man shouldn't be married, because younger readers can't relate to married people".
Well, to be fair it's considerably less than 1% of the characters...it's just that when one of them is announced to be homosexual, it gets publicity.
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