New gay character in Marvel Team-Up

[Doc Beechler]

I find it fascinating that Batwoman can cause a ruckus, but Kirkman is writing about a new, openly gay, male superhero in a book with a HUGE Marvel logo and an "A" (which I assume is an all-ages rating without writing it out in order not to turn off the teens and older readers who are too cool for that) rating without a peep. I gotta admit, this character Curtis (aka Freedom Ring) is refreshing in that his orientation is never made into a big deal. He's dating a guy, hiding his new powers from him, and teaming up with Spidey. He's also a Green Lantern-type hero with limitations I can actually wrap my head around. I like that we're finally to a place where this character, along with Maggie Sawyer, Hulkling, Wiccan, and Karolina (in Runaways) can be fully realized people, not merely soap boxes for a social-political viewpoint.

[Gregory]

The news outlets only know what the comic press releases tell them. If Marvel or DC says nothing, no one except us will know.

[Blandy vs Terrorism]

On that note, welcome to the board.

Stay away from Cathy.

[Brian Defferding]

Welcome to the board! Hold on I gotta go find some haggis here in the back room...

[Ryan Elliott]

The reason Batwoman is making such a fuss is becuase she was already an established character who died AND becuase she has BAT in her name.

[A.Huerta]

HE's a pretty cool character. Kinda like a cheap version of GL, but we'll see.

[Doug]

Batwoman is only causing a ruckus because of the press releases. The same thing happened with the Rawhide Kid.

[Brian Defferding]

Found some! Didn't have time to cook it though. Hope that's okay!

[Doc Beechler]

Ya know, I go to a Presbyterian church and, being Scottish in origin and all, we had a festival this spring where haggis was involved. I gotta admit, I kinda liked it.

And, I agree, it's much easier to write a news story on BATwoman than Freedom Ring (who?), but it was a refreshing step seeing gay characters as just part of successful comics. Scott Pilgrim's roommate is another great character who just happens to be gay.

Thanks for the welcome, everyone. I just finished listening to the four hour Bendis tapes on Wordballoon...great stuff.

[Corey A.]

Hi

:taint punch:

Welcome to the ol' Bendo Board!