Everyone is talking about sex and the superheroes!
Well, we didn't want to have another whole link dump devoted to the New 52 but...there has been so much reaction to the Week 3 books and their various portrayals of the ladies that there was more than enough material. § For some much needed perspective, Newsarama looks back on the 10 Most Shocking Superhero Hook-ups, and it is wise to remember that 10 years ago, Luke Cage giving Jessica Jones a blast in the can was considered the End Of Comics As We Know It. Now, it's a cozy nostalgia moment.
Continue ReadingNew Teen Titan is out and proud — but will gay readers embrace him?
After some comments on Twitter surfaced, TEEN TITANS artist Brett Booth has confirmed that a new titan to appear in issues #3 is an openly gay teen named Miguel Jose Barragan, a.k.a. Bunker. Scripter Scott Lobdell wrote:
Continue ReadingLest we forget: ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #1 on sale today
This is a landmark day in comics -- no, not because LEGION LOST #1 is coming out. The new ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #1 --featuring the new, multi racial Miles Morales -- is also on sale, making this an even bigger month than we ever thought possible. Marvel just sent out some more info on the book, including a few #0 issue on the Marvel comics app and the twitter hashtag #milesmorales. How about it? Will you be going to the store to pick this up? Here's some previews pages from Brian Michel Bendis and Sara Pichelli:
Continue ReadingCDC teams with Terminus for motion comic to fight AIDS
The Center for Disease Control has contracted with Atlanta's Terminus Media to produce a motion comic to heighten AIDS-awareness for young people aged 15-24 iPads and other devices, Politico reports. The contract is for roughly $145,000.
Continue ReadingSPX: Finally someone does right by the women
Can we get a "Hell yeah?" for this weekend's Small Press Expo? As far as all the recent worrying, fretting, funding, snarking, and analyzing the numbers of women in comics goes, SPX is a model of how to do it right. As the below PR shows, they have an incredible guest list of supremely talented men AND women, and a look at the exhibitor list show's there are 120 women -- that's about 40% of the exhibitors. Gendercrunch that.
Continue ReadingBreaking: Nerd guy rejected by total jerk
In the interests of equal time to our male readers, we'd like to point out this story where a female Gizmodo writer did not feel comfortable dating Magic the Gathering World Champion Jon Finkel after she met him via OK Cupid:
Continue ReadingOne year later, Apple welcomes LGBT graphic novels
Only a year ago, Tom Bouden's gay-themed adpatation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest was fighting rejection on Apple's mobile platforms, leading to cries of a double standard where sex and violence were concerned. But now LGBT publisher Northwest Press is claiming victory by having Teleny and Camille, Glamazonia: The Uncanny Super-Tranny, and Rainy Day Recess: The Complete Steven's Comics all approved by Apple. All are now available via the iBooks app.
Continue ReadingMore comments on Multi-Culti-Ultimate Spidey from Colbert, Taiwanese animation, actual mixed race man
There have been about 42 multigabillion reactions in the media to the new multi-culti-ultimate Spider-Man, and we're not going to link to all of them, but here are the three best that have crossed our desk today. Perhaps we'll update this post if more good ones come in. • As you can see Stephen Colbert weighed in last night with some funny, funny jokes. Colbert is an avowed comics fan with many crossovers in his resume already, including having Joe Quesada on as a guest, and guesting himself in an issue of Spider-man.
Continue ReadingTruth is dumber than fiction as Glenn Beck unravels Spidey conspiracy
In one of my rebuttals to one of the idiotic racist postings on The Beat yesterday, I Almost....ALMOST made a reference to Glenn Beck along the lines of, "Glenn Beck should start a line of comics just for all the angry white men; sales would soar." And then I thought, oh that's too knee-jerk. What was I thinking?
Continue ReadingCan comics that don’t star white men sell?
Well, HOLY CRAP. It's all done broke loose now, hasn't it. What the hell is going on? The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together. OR should that be: men and women, blacks and whites making COMICS together. It seems like "The Diversity Issue" in comics has exploded all over the place. It can't be silenced. It can't be swept under the rug. More accurately, its ISP can't be blocked. The intersquawk just won't let these issue die. Is it just a few malcontents who won't shut up? Is it a reflection of the world we live in? Or is it just that as we enter the Digital Age of comics (and everything else) infinite accessibility means that the broadening audience for comics needs them to step up and join the real world?
Continue ReadingMarvel announces new Ultimate Spider-Man of a different color [SPOILERS]
All of you folks who have been crying about diversity in comics had better be all over this! Marvel has revealed that the new Ultimate Spider-Man will be Hispanic/African-American teenager Miles Morales. A USA Today story broke the news and reveals that yes, Donald Glover's campaign to play Spider-Man was an influence on writer Brian Michael Bendis, although only as an indication that previous discussions about relaunching Spider-Man as a non-white character were on the right track.
Continue ReadingBatgirl’s one-woman crusade yields results: Lee and DiDio acknowledge quest for diversity
It seems that Kyrax2's lonely crusade at Comic-Con -- booed and laughed at and told to shut up -- has yielded results, as the internet has swelled one voice to thousands. Last yesterday, DC Entertainment co-publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee posted a statement called, simply, We hear you:
Continue ReadingWomanthology raises $27,000 overnight. Are you listening, Marvel and DC?
Less than 24 hours ago The Beat and several other websites linked to a Kickstarter page forWomanthology, an all-female anthology of comics by both established and new creators. Less than 24 hours later not only has it met its $25,000 goal...it is OVER the goal with $27,454 in pledges. In case you haven't noticed, there's been a SURGE of interest in comics, video games, books, movies and TV from females readers, nerds and geeks out there. I have already pointed out how successful female cartoonists and writers are on the bestseller charts. It would seem that everyone who has been squawking about this has spoken with in the loudest way they can -- not with Twitter, or Tumblr but the DOLLAR.
Continue ReadingWomen in comics: They’re now, they’re wow — get used to it
The latest round of outrage over the matter of women in comics was sparked off when DC's relaunch had only three "distaff" members. In all the talk-talk there was some along the lines of Adam P Knave's Why Aren’t There More Women in Comics? which points out the lack of a welcome mat for female creators. Knave takes pains to point out that he's talking "mainstream" comics, but this got me thinking about how obsessing about women at The Big Two is really like worrying about the number of saunas in the Kalahari.
Continue ReadingScott Adams surprisingly revealed as a female supremacist
In a blog post, Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams reveals himself as a male-basher who thinks all men need to be castrated to ensure a smoothly running society because all they want to do is rape and tweet pictures of their junk to co-eds:
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