Good lord, enough already!
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Not nearly enough yet.
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Re-writing established characters to fit an agenda is very declasse. They have been around 30-40 years or more. If you *have to have 'different' characters, write new ones!
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Is this actually increasing sales?
Who really needs to know or even cares about the sex life of pretend people?
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Your need for labels-gay, lesbian, trans, straight, black, white, or whatever, is getting tiresome.
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Why can't comics be about fantasy and adventure and fun stuff that thrill the imagination? I would prefer stories be about plots of good over evil and all other elements should be another shade in the landscape. Having issues thrust down your throat and blotting out the story isn't fun and only distracts from what should be great story telling.
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It's already great story telling. Award winning, fan followed, decades long running, multi-million dollar raking great story telling.
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No mention of the controversy around Constantine's "straightwashing"?
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No mention of Genevieve Valentine's take on Catwoman?
Let's provide a little historical context here. X-Men fans have known that mutants were a metaphor for homosexuals since at least the 70s. I remember a heartbreaking post to this effect in the Uncanny X-Men letters page decades ago. A young man wrote in about the death of his brother, driven to suicide because he was gay. One of the few sources of comfort he had found in his life was his X-Men comics. I still tear up remembering it.
After the Kefauver hearings and the Seduction of the Innocent hysteria, comics fell into an artistic coma until, in 1961, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created the Fantastic Four, a comic that wasn't afraid to wear its political heart on its sleeve. The FF, with its depictions of until then invisible ethnic minorities (Jews, blacks, Native Americans, and New Yorkers), and its unapologetic liberalism, opened up comics and paved the way for the portrayals of LGBT that would follow.
After the Kefauver hearings and the Seduction of the Innocent hysteria, comics fell into an artistic coma until, in 1961, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created the Fantastic Four, a comic that wasn't afraid to wear its political heart on its sleeve. The FF, with its depictions of until then invisible ethnic minorities (Jews, blacks, Native Americans, and New Yorkers), and its unapologetic liberalism, opened up comics and paved the way for the portrayals of LGBT that would follow.
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