Awesome Year One piece by Jorge Fornes.
we're not kids anymore.
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Origami Around

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Cosmic Funnies

oozey mess
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if i look back, i am lost
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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
trying on a metaphor
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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Awesome Year One piece by Jorge Fornes.
New OC straight outta the oven
nano machines bitch
by Greg Capullo
[”Follow the Leader” colorist : Brian Haberlin]
[”Ten Thousand Fists” by Greg Capullo & Todd McFarlane]
FF #12 by Matt Fraction, Lee Allred, and Mike Allred
You could honestly stick this at the end of any X-Book released after like 2012.
How to Fail at Coming Out Stories in Comics
On April 22, 2015, comics retailers far and wide will be selling copies of All-New X-Men #40, which, spoiler, features the coming out of a major character from Marvel Comics’ original five X-Men (sort of): Bobby Drake, AKA Ice Man. On the one hand, I want to be loud and supportive, and to celebrate this wider diversity. But on the other hand, they do a really, really offensive crap job of it.
The scene begins with our time displaced version of Bobby from the past being confronted by the time displaced Jean Grey (henceforth referred to as “young Bobby” and “young Jean”) after he says a few misogynistic things about Magik. This is potentially great meta-commentary from a female comic character confronting the male gaze and the hypersexualization of female comic characters. But, rather than go there, it instead goes the route of revealing young Jean is pretty awful at respecting the privacy of others and both of them are equally awful at discussing sexual diversity.
It begins:
Just another day at the X-Men where your resident good-guy telepath is bouncing around in your brain without your permission and then dictating to you what your sexuality is without any concern for consent or self-identification.
Bobby is literally telling her that her brain is not welcome inside his and she disregards him. After 40 issues of practice, this isn’t a girl who can’t shut other peoples’ thoughts out. She can read his thoughts; that doesn’t mean she should.
But wait, old Bobby isn’t gay. He’s dated girls. Wouldn’t this really make Bobby bisexual, pansexual, or sexually fluid?
Oh no, let’s just decide for future/present/whatever Bobby his sexuality for him as well. He’s never been straight. He’s in the closet because being two things the world hates is worse than one. Barf. If there’s one thing that’s never rung true for not-young Bobby, it’s the sort of personality that would somehow be afraid of homophobia while being brave about mutant phobia.
And how disgusting is the argument that because all of his past relationships with women have failed, they all must mean he’s really gay too? Assuming old Bobby and young Bobby are the same Bobby, that’s some hard core bisexual erasure going on right there. Every relationship I’ve had with a man has failed. That doesn’t make me straight. Every relationship my straight ex-wife has had with a man has failed too. That doesn’t make her a lesbian. This is outright the worst, most biphobic logic I’ve seen this week. It’s just awful.
And there’s one more doozy:
No. They don’t. Only really uninformed or really crappy people say this. Patrick Richardsfink writes an excellent post on the inappropriateness of saying everyone is bisexual. Saying everyone is bi erases us. It invalidates bisexual identity and gives room for people to feel it’s perfectly ok for them to smack their own labels on us rather than allowing us to self identify. This is exactly what young Jean does to young Bobby in this exchange.
This entire five page exchange is breathtaking in how absolutely awful and problematic it is. I want to believe Bendis was sincerely trying to sensitively introduce the world to another major gay character in comics. It’s just a shame he had to do so by being ignorant and dropping a steaming dump on bisexuality and other non-monosexual identities.
Evan
April solicitations for Image are up. We’re back. As is…
THE WICKED + THE DIVINE #18 STORY: KIERON GILLEN ART / COVERS A & B: JAMIE McKELVIE & MATT WILSON APRIL 6 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.50 NEW STORY ARC An ideal jumping-on point. Persephone, live. The question is, will it be for more than one night? Don’t call it a comeback, as JAMIE McKELVIE and MATT WILSON return to THE WICKED + THE DIVINE for the most rock-and-roll everything-explodes arc of the hit series.
Kind of makes me smile this goes live the same day as the last issue of Phonogram. It’s a metaphor, probably.
To stress the solicitation, this is a very good point to start following the single issues. Talk to your retailer, obv.
Plus there’s the solicitation for the Hardback edition collecting the first-two arcs. Whoop.
note: cartoon network cancelled this show because girls liked to watch it
Cartoon Network makes some of the dumbest decisions. They are more interested in selling to children than actually entertaining them.