Posted on 05/22/2012 10:43:04 AM PDT by longtermmemmory
DC Comics plans to reintroduce a character as gay in a future issue, it has been revealed.
Co-publisher Dan DiDio previously said that the company would not change the sexual orientation of an existing superhero and would bring in a new one altogether.
But at Kapow Comic Convention in London on Sunday, he revealed that an existing character - who was previously assumed to be straight - will become ‘one of our most prominent gay characters’, according to comic blog BleedingCool.com.
Who is it? An existing DC Comics character - who was previously assumed to be straight - will become openly-gay Senior VP Sales Bob Wayne said DiDio’s view ‘had evolved’, comparing the shift to Barack Obama’s recent endorsement of same-sex marriage.
DiDio did not specify which character would ‘come out’ or in which issue it would be featured.
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But Courtney Simmons, DC Entertainment’s senior vice president of publicity, told ABC News that it would be soon.
'One of the major iconic DC characters will reveal that he is gay in a storyline in June,' Simmons told the network.
Speculation: Some Twitter users assume Batman will come out as gay.
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There is no Truth, Justice, and the American way at DC Comics. sad to see how far they have fallen.
Yesterday I was leaning Green Arrow. Today I am going with Flash. He is major, but not one of the big three for DC.
I think it’s a desperate ploy to compete with the success of Marvel’s Avengers. A HEY-LOOK-AT-US kind of thing. Well, a bit of attention they’ll get, but not the right kind.
As a long-time comics fan and pro, I find this saddening.
Please be Wonder Woman.
Please be Wonder Woman.
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Please be Wonder Woman.
Sick.
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DC Comics goes on the long list of companies I will no longer patronize.
Batman would be problematic because of all the NAMBLA jokes he'd be open to with all the Robins. Hell, they'd go from Dynamic Duo to (Un)Ambiguously Gay Duo.
As for Superman, after all the years of Lana Lang and Lois Lane (and every other L...L... female out there), suddenly coming out of the closet would be a major joke, and not a particularly funny one.
Perhaps there should be a write in campaign along the lines of the one that had the bad Robin replacement killed off in one of the books.
Kids read these things. Some creep will use it to justify destroying some child’s life.
DC USED to be the one who translated well to movies. Instead we have that total supplanted by marvel. DC already screwed up Batwoman.
When a superhero has no moral compass there is no story to square the actions of the charater. What next Captain Hedonism?
My money’s on Plastic Man. He always has seemed bent out of shape to me.
If homosexuality was normal, they wouldn’t need to engage in these propaganda tactics in order to condition acceptance amongst the populace.
Wally West had a long-term relationship with reporter Linda Park, eventually marrying her in the early 2000s.
I think this is something along the lines of the “cultivating tools” for molesters that police warn about.
Disney just had their investment in marvel shoot through the roof if DC follows the thoughts of this woman VP.
The sad part is the ones who thought up these heroes are probably long gone and won’t have a say in matter.
Totally sick. The whole culture has become sick and depraved. Every day, it’s another vomit-inducing story. On the positive side, if the whole country financially/socially collapses due to the debt, at least it won’t be such a terrible loss at this point.
Particularly sad when I think about DC Comics, and their great history, and their status as a part of americana. I think of those great patriotic WW2 covers to “World’s Finest Comics” and such.
Oh, wouldn't the fag mafia love to turn THAT one into a "queer-friendly" propaganda rag.
Satan is working overtime pushing this gay crap on us.
Diane Nelson
President
DC Comics is a division of Time Warner communications.
You can thank this person for approving of this destruction of comic characters:
Diane Nelson
was named President, DC Entertainment upon the company’s founding in September 2009. In this post, Nelson is charged with leading the company’s efforts to fully realize the power and value of DC Entertainment’s brands and characters across all media and platforms, while strategically integrating the DC Entertainment business, brand and characters deeply into Warner Bros.
She is also the one who does not “get it” with characters operating as a team.
the rest of the dc comics executive board is here
http://www.dcentertainment.com/management
In the past it has been a sideline character nobody cared about. The character fades to zero and disapears since nobody in their right mind wants to be seen buying, or reading a homosexual comic book.
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