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... said Johns. “Since then, I’ve been amazed by what Carr and Jud have built. I’ve wanted to get into the retailing side of the industry for years, to learn about and support the backbone of comics. And there are no better partners I can do that with than Carr, Jud and Earth-2. Plus, now I can harass Bob Wayne. A lot.”
Well, he’s identified one key component of the retailing equation right off the bat!
§ Chaos Mackenzie looks at Batwoman’s journey for Xtra:
From the beginning Batwoman was ...
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... — and we’re going to associate it with a character that from the start is going to be known as gay. It’s not going to be an after-school special story, we’re not going to do a pull back the curtain and duh-duh-duh, it’s from the word go. What we want is a new member of the bat family: We want this character to be female, viable and strong and among all those things she is also gay. And that is part of the character-making, right, as opposed to an evolving self-discovery story.” [Xtra] ...
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Comic Book Resources —
... bat — and we’re going to associate it with a character that from the start is going to be known as gay. It’s not going to be an after-school special story, we’re not going to do a pull back the curtain and duh-duh-duh, it’s from the word go. What we want is a new member of the bat family: We want this character to be female, viable and strong and among all those things she is also gay. And that is part of the character-making, right, as opposed to an evolving self-discovery story.” [ Xtra ] Creators | Johanna Draper Carlson talks with ...
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... “Fan expectations high for the most famous queer character in mainstream comics”: More famous than Extrano and Northstar? Is it possible? Chaos McKenzie talks to writer Greg Rucka about his upcoming run on Detective Comics, which will be focusing on Batwoman. It’s a pretty thorough piece, starting with the original Batwoman in the 1950s, although it seems to skip over the weird, several-year delay between the new Batwoman’s debut in 52 and the start of this story arc. Why has it taken DC so long to exploit a potentially ...
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When Fangirls Attack —
Miscellany: Graphic Novel Review: Dusk False Witness! is no Female Force, that’s for sure Female Farce: Michele Bachmann comic Never Learn Anything from History The only thing I didn't like about this week's Runaways #10... The Comic Book Alphabet of Cool - Y Are Marvel divas just fanboy fantasies? Batwoman is back and she means business Cover Art Cavalcade: DC Wants Your Daughters To Read Comics Sexist Book Covers The Brinkley Girls: ...
