The return of #Robin is coming! I love this solicitation. Can’t stop #Batman.
#DCComics #BatmanAndRobin
Oh man, another dead Robin coming back to life? SURPRISE! Wait, no, not a surprise at all.
Oh look, it’s a new DC Universe CRISIS(TM), complete w/Brother Eye, super-grittiness &, of course, killing The Flash.
Because nothing can change in the DC Universe unless you kill The Flash first.
Comic Book Previews of Books Releasing May 3rd, 2014 – Comic Book Resources:
Fun comic-book-industry news from this list:
DC’s Beyond-verse must not be selling well enough, because its a mega-multi-title tie-in time! Complete with requisite bullshit extra grittiness. Chances that this will be used as an excuse to reboot DC’s main universe again: 50/50.
A Street Fighter comic. It’s coming back. If this book sells enough to cover the cost of printing, we can basically call it on being the 80s again. Republicans take the White House.
More Sonic the Hedgehog comics! AKA the last time Sonic the Hedgehog was worth the cost of illustrating him.
Les Mis as anime. All is lost.
Teen Titans Go! title. Something in DC Comics other than Batman is making money!
The Rise of the Magi looks pretty cool, perhaps Top Cow is looking to duplicate Image’s strategy of making quality comics that compete with DC and Marvel’s by being free of unending crazy crossovers?
Image Comics has such incredible word of mouth and is making such great god damn books that they don’t need to give shit away for free; that’s how much money they’re making! Oh, you’re not reading Saga or The Walking Dead already? Then you clearly stepped into this comic store by accident.
Why a straight, white, nerdy Spider-Man is no longer a real underdog hero.:
Last year, Andrew Garfield made this offhand comment during an interview with Entertainment Weekly, wondering why Peter Parker couldn’t be bisexual:
“I was like, ‘What if MJ is a dude?’ Why can’t we discover that Peter is exploring his sexuality? It’s hardly even groundbreaking! So why can’t he be gay? Why can’t he be into boys?”
Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb quickly dismissed this idea, but Garfield pressed on, mentioning Michael B. Jordan as a possible actor for the role of Peter Parker’s boyfriend. During a panel at San Diego Comic Con, Garfield went into more detail about his thoughts on the idea of a bisexual Peter Parker.
“He represents the everyman, but he represents the underdog and those marginalized who come up against great prejudice which I, as a middle-class straight, white man, don’t really understand so much. And when Stan Lee first wrote and created this character, the outcast was the computer nerd, was the science nerd, was the guy that couldn’t get the girl. Those guys now run the world. So how much of an outcast is that version of Peter Parker anymore? That’s my question.”
This debate has been raging among comics fans for years. All of the big-name superhero movies are adaptations of long-running comics, and because most of those titles were first published sometime in the mid-20th century, their protagonists tend to be straight, white men. Is Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker really representative of the 21st century underclass? Not so much.
This also highlights the current division between Marvel comics and their big-screen adaptations. Between Sony’s Spider-Man movies, Fox’s X-Men franchise and Marvel Studios itself, Hollywood is churning out multiple Marvel adaptations every year. And yet so far, none of those movies have starred anyone other than a straight, white man in the lead role. The Avengers franchise has managed a handful of female characters in non-romantic roles, plus Falcon and Nick Fury in the supporting cast, but the mere concept of an openly LGBT character still feels like a pie-in-the-sky dream. Meanwhile in Marvel comics, Northstar came out in 1992, opening the floodgates for a whole host of other LGBT heroes.
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