The Sci-Fi Comic Book That Portrays Gay Romance as Completely Normal - Noah Berlatsky. Artifice is a well-written, cleverly plotted action-romance with two likable, appealing leads who both happen to be men.
AMW Comics The sci-fi android romance comic Artifice is arresting—but not because it features gay protagonists. Rather, it's arresting because, reading it, you suddenly realize the extent to which gay protagonists are normal. "Normal," in this context, means a couple of things. Most straightforwardly (if that's the right word here), writer Alex Woolfson and artist Winona Nelson are working in the yaoi comics genre. Admittedly, Nelson's art is looks much more like mainstream Western comics illustration than like manga.
The gay romance in Artifice is, though, also normal in the sense that it is normalizing. This parallel is almost over-obvious. But the analogy can be transferred to other sci-fi characters as well. Of course, the homosexual subtext of science-fiction isn't exactly a secret. The fact that they're gay is what makes this a niche genre title. Some of the Greatest, Most Popular Comic Books Are Feminist - Noah Berlatsky. Spawn creator Todd McFarlane recently claimed that comics with political messages don't make good comics.
But series like Wonder Woman and Sailor Moon prove him wrong. Mainstream superhero comics are aimed at guys. That's why Starfire, a character best known for her stint as an empowering icon for girls on Saturday morning cartoons, gets turned into a voracious, literally brain-damaged, libido-driven pin-up girl when she's translated to comics.
It's why Wonder Woman, best known as an empowering icon for girls, gets turned into an excuse for buckets of bloodshed and gun play in her most recent comics incarnation. Data is hard to come by, but best guesses seem to estimate that the readership of superhero comics is between 90 and 95 percent male. Last week, ThinkProgress's Alyssa Rosenberg confronted a bunch of mainstream comics creators about the lopsided nature of their industry. There are various problems with this statement. This shouldn't really be a surprise. Digital Comics - Comics by comiXology. Batman Inc kills off Robin. Please note: Spoilers ahead The Dynamic Duo is now a somewhat less Dynamic Uno after DC Comics's latest Batman comic made the controversial move of killing off the Caped Crusader's long-running sidekick, Robin.
Out today, the eighth issue of the Batman Incorporated series will see Robin – who in his current incarnation is played by Bruce Wayne's 10-year-old son Damian – die in battle. "He saves the world. He does his job as Robin," writer Grant Morrison told the New York Post. "He dies an absolute hero. " Robin, said Morrison, will be killed fighting an assassin cloned from his own genetic material, and Batman will not arrive in time to save him, with his death certain to affect the entire DC Comics universe. Robin has been played by a number of different masked heroes, starting with Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne's ward, in 1940. "What we did was turn this little monster into a superhero. Damian is not the first Robin to die.
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