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- No gender-bending for King of the World
A Chinese MMO publisher, Shanda, reportedly declared that subscribers who play a female avatar in their King of the World game must prove they are female outside of the game. A webcam session with a Shanda representative will provide that proof. When I play a female martial artist in a tight jumpsuit in City of Heroes all it means is that I'd like to pretend I'm as cool as Emma Peel, so the big deal over gender switching in MMOs always goes a little over my head.
- Perry Moore, Moore, Moore...
I received a message from Hero author Perry Moore, who's been following the discussion into the list of gay heroes he assembled. He's thrilled to see discussion about the list and the state of gay characters in superhero comics and welcomes any comments, suggestions, updates and corrections. "The point of the list is to facilitate discussion about the status of gay characters in the media of comic books. It is such a non-issue in the world of YA books, but comic books really are light years behind."
An edited version of the list appears in the October issue of Harper's Magazine as "To the Bat Closet", which takes the discussion to a new audience. Moore emphasized that he'd like to see this become a group effort: "It's ours, not just mine."
In other Hero-related news, Brian hit the book party earlier this week and met the charming Moore (and Ricki Lake, who was delightful and looked fabulous), who tipped us off that he's already working on a sequel and that it will fill us in on the untapped mysteries of Goran and Thom's mother. Oooh! More when we know it... - Wanted: Fight Club towel boy?
They have every kind of game in Japan, don't they? In Duel Love you can use your Nintendo DS stylus to wipe off the sweat off of a nipple-less bishounen, fresh from a Fight Club-style match (for that added homoeroticism). - Geek Site of the Week:!
This week's site is Blockade Boy's comic book fashion blog. Not only can Blockade Boy can really deliver a snarky takedown on the worst in superhero fashion (and, seriously, who killed Janet Van Dyne's sense of taste?) but he also offers his own fashion redesigns like his interpretation of Fly-Girl from So Super Duper, his vision of a flapper version of Dazzler or his gender reassignment challenges, where he adapts a costume for someone of the opposite gender.
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