"Mallard Fillmore" really seems has a bug up it's butt about DC making Alan Scott gay

[Patrick Gerard]

You have a link? I can't find them with a search, and I'd love to see them.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/gung-hohum,28572/

I always saw them as a dig at Bruce Tinsey.

[RobStaeger]

Ah, thanks!

[Patrick Gerard]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/may-10-2010,17409/

Okay. This is absurd genius.

[FanboyStranger]

Didn't the Rawhide Kid series actually not have a gay romance, but just talk with a lot of innuendo?

Yeah, both of the series were little more than extended gay panic gags. There was a small amount of outrage, but that centered on three things:

1) John Ostrander and Leo Manco had just done an excellent series named Apache Skies which had the Rawhide Kid in a relationship with a woman, but all further plans were scrapped when Ron Zimmerman, who was close to Howard Stern, wanted to write comics and pitched his Rawhide Kid.

2) Despite having art from the legendary John Severin (and later Howard Chaykin), Zimmerman's story was crap and little more than a collection of gay panic gags.

3) Chuck Dixon went nuts about it, claiming that John Severin could not have known what he was drawing, which Severin later refuted.

[Karen El]

Yeah, both of the series were little more than extended gay panic gags. There was a small amount of outrage, but that centered on three things:

1) John Ostrander and Leo Manco had just done an excellent series named Apache Skies which had the Rawhide Kid in a relationship with a woman, but all further plans were scrapped when Ron Zimmerman, who was close to Howard Stern, wanted to write comics and pitched his Rawhide Kid.

2) Despite having art from the legendary John Severin (and later Howard Chaykin), Zimmerman's story was crap and little more than a collection of gay panic gags.

3) Chuck Dixon went nuts about it, claiming that John Severin could not have known what he was drawing, which Severin later refuted.

I thought the first mini was quite sympathetic. Didn't like the second one at all, though.

[Chris Jones]

I think the last two are kind of funny actually.

[Lunar Archivist]

(Who better still be alive if DC knows what's good for it).

True...which probably means that he's dead.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/may-10-2010,17409/

Okay. This is absurd genius.

That reminds me of a photoshop of a gun-wielding Jesus Christ I once saw on Something Awful with the caption: He died for your sins. Now it's your turn.

[KalenO]

And $4 comics are?

Errr, I never said they were? I was just commenting on whether or not this strip indicates Hal or John is more recognizable to younger generations.

[EmarAndZeb]

http://www.theonion.com/articles/may-10-2010,17409/

Okay. This is absurd genius.

The "Making of" videos that they've sometimes started putting with them are almost even better.

http://www.theonion.com/video/behind...e-works,28173/