"Well, I ain't no 'superhero' and I sure as hell ain't gay."
Posted on 09/07/2007 10:26:53 AM PDT by Pyro7480
On Monday, New York Times Arts writer George Gene Gustines profiled gay novelist Perry Moore, a fervent supporter of gay rights -- for fictional comic book characters.
"Novelist's Superhero Is Out to Right Wrongs" began:
"Perry Moore has the sinewy physique and golden looks of a California surfer, but get him talking about comics, and he can out-geek the biggest fanatic. He also has the fervor of an activist when discussing the dearth -- and occasional shoddy treatment -- of gay superheroes in mainstream comic books."
Now there's a vital cause we can all rally behind!
"It is an issue close to the heart of Mr. Moore, who is gay, and he has funneled his passion into a young-adult novel. 'Hero,' published in hardback last week by Hyperion Teen, tells the story of Thom Creed, coping not only with high school, sexual orientation and a strained home life, but also with his own budding superpowers. In telling Thom's story, Mr. Moore, like some of the costumed champions he admires, hopes to right some wrongs.
"'My publisher did not shy away from my mission,' he said during a recent interview near his home in Greenwich Village. That mission is a multipart endeavor to show gay superheroes in a positive light, to learn from his experiences with his father and to give younger readers a potential role model in Thom."
Because liberal moralizing is what comic book readers are looking for.
For the complete version of this article, visit Times Watch.
They are kidding right?
This is like asking where are all the SISSY HEROS.
I’d say the article simply reinforces the fact gays make up less than 5% of society at large.
If there was a market, there would be ‘gay super hero’s’.
There just isn’t one.
I never thought gays would get into the super-hero racket. I mean, come on people... the tights may be nice, but rescuing...yeeech girls... and fighting smelly bad-guys!
They might chip a fingernail not to mention getting their hair all messed up!
The adventures of FecesMan.
Gay superheroes are just lame. If a comic turns a superhero gay (ala Northstar) the comic folds in a year of two. If they make up a new superhero that is gay, the writers are obligated to make the hero extra good. They can’t do a Dark Gay (ala Dark Phoenix) because they would be accused of homophobia. Likewise killing off the superhero would be homophobia. So they would be stuck with an incredibly boring superhero until the comic folds (which is usually pretty quick because most comic nerds are straight. Virginal maybe, but straight.
LOL! I can’t even come close to topping that pic!
“Has there EVER been a religious superhero, much less one with a Christian world-view?”
Well, this doesn’t exactly fit your worldview, but how about The Hebrew Hammer: http://efilmcritic.com/review.php?movie=6925
they’re all preparing for fantasy fest.
...absolutely DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT, search google images for the term “fantasy fest”.
Just trust me and be thankful that I warned you in advance.
(((You’d be shocked. Marvel has turned into ultra left wing whack jobs in recent years. I’m not a comic book reader, but I know two people who have canceled all their subscriptions to Marvel Comics because of the far left slant in all of their stories.)))
As an original Fantastic Four fan, who stopped reading in 1973 or so, I picked up the newest issues when the first movie came back a few years ago. I was really bothered by what they’d done to the characters I’d loved so well as a kid. From what I understand, Spider-man fans are beginning to leave in droves now, too...
Benn Grimm (the Thing) actually went through a bar-mitvah, cause he’d missed his as a child.
Last I heard they were having toe tappin’, wide stance, gay sex in the Minneapolis airport potty room.
I wonder how many pairs of tights and capes have been located in that potty room?
The only exception I can recall in the past forty years was Evan, the impulsive cop on Nash Bridges. We watched him ruin his relationship with Cassidy, get shot and become a drunk, and then get into a 12-Step group and recover, giving Glory to God right out loud. Man, I was SO worried they were going to make a standard Hollywood Christian out of him, but he actually stayed faithful...up until the moment they had a madman kill him as revenge on Nash. But they didn't play him as a hypocrite or a raving loony, like they do most times. Outside of that, (and good old Ned!) what other examples does anyone have of POSITIVE Christian characters in recent media?
If you go to the DC comics message boards, half of the posters are queer. They openly lobby the editors at DC to have characters “come out of the closet”, and DC happily obliges, a ‘la the lastest bat-character, Batwoman. There are several queer writers on DC’s staff, and they make no bones about what they’re trying to do.
There’s already talk by some DC writers of making Wonder Woman at least bisexual, if not an outright lesbian, on the grounds that Paradise Island has no men, and they “have to get their sex from somewhere, right?”.
Actually though, sexuality has taken a backseat of late to race at DC, because of all the controversy they’ve caused by killing off white superheroes and replacing with minority characters. The Atom is an Asian now, Blue Beetle is a Mexican kid, Firestorm is a black kid now, etc. The complaint is that rather than making new minority characters, DC is simply taking the “there’s too many white guys” approach.
If you want to know anything about the political makeup of DC’s writers, one of their staff writers is Judd Winick. He was on MTV’s The Real World some time back...he was the best friend of aids patient that died. His politcs go farrrr left, and he’s a prominent writer there.
The current “Who wants to Be A Superhero” features “Mr. Mitvah”!
"Well, I ain't no 'superhero' and I sure as hell ain't gay."
Just the costume.
Have you ever wondered why Robin wears garish colors while Batman is always in darker, more subdued colors? Because Robin is there to be bait.
Holy spinning lure, Batman, why do I have to go first again?
Or how about “Bobby and the Butt Bandits”.
To late for me. That was my answer.LOL
Sad. The appeal of comics when I read them (way back when dinosaurs roamed) was their innocence. The hero (before he donned his superhero costume) would say things like Great Scott! and “Gee!”
They used to be for kids.
Now they’re turning into outlets for left wing, new age thinkers. I mean, come on...Spider-man, they now say, didn’t get his powers from that radioactive spider, after all! The new line is that there is this spider god, see, and he wanted Peter to be next in line. Recently, they had him die and “evolve” into a higher species of spider.
Sigh.
Alpha Flight sucks anyways.
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