- It's still too late for Wonder Woman, however:
With all the grim news about the Writers' Strike, comic fans have a silver lining to hope for -- TV writers who dabbled in comics (only to leave their stories running late) might now have the time to return to those projects (reported in a variety of spots including Lying in the Gutters). Hey, if that means Allan Heinberg returns to Young Avengers (home to two of the coolest gay superheroes you haven't heard of), I could momentarily stop missing my Heroes.
- A new mayor in Paragon City:
NC Soft buys out City of Heroes, taking most of the game's staff with it. (Jack "Statesman" Emmert isn't part of the transition. Judging from some of the comments he made on the game boards, I'm not sure if I'll miss him.) Considering how NC Soft has been incredibly supportive to the game's community of gaymers, I think CoH will hold onto its reputation as one of the most gay-friendly MMORPG games.
- Fighting evil by disco ball light, Winning love by disco ball light:
The Absorbascon turns a snarky eye to Dazzler, one of the Marvel universe's most fabulous heroines. (That wimpy Jem wishes she were half as cool as Alison Blaire.) I loved Dazzler back in her day. I mean:
She fought supervillains wearing mirrored roller skates, with face paint make up while also carrying around a shiny little purse. Also:
She knew the secret to make-up that doesn't smudge easily. Too bad she didn't think of selling that secret... and don't get me started on how her bit of Marvel superhero family angst (™) was her search for her long-lost mother.
- Link of the week:
There's a new gay geek blog in town: enter DoorQ.com, which is chock full of reviews, news and previews. Now if I could get the webmasters to give me an RSS feed for Christmas, everything would be peachy.
Submitted by
on Fri, 2007-11-09 15:40.
Hey, is that...
No, that's a Bill
No, that's a Bill Sienkiewicz cover, you can see his signature on the left of the image, it's vertical. He did other covers: http://www.comicvine.com/comic/dazzler/3083/&i=1795
François
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I pray that Heinberg
A six-issue miniseries
A six-issue miniseries titled Young Avengers Presents, each one focusing on a different member (or members) and written by a different writer, is going to be coming out soon (the first issue come out in January).
Ed Brubaker will be writing about Patriot in #1. Brian Reed will have Hulking meet Captain Marvel, his father (Reed is going to be writing the new CM series) in #2. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa will be writing about Wiccan and Speed in #3. Paul Cornell will be doing the Vision in #4. The writers for the last two issues (presumably focusing on Kate and Cassie) haven't been decided yet.
And Marvel didn't see fit
And Marvel didn't see fit to give us an issue with Wiccan and Hulking by themselves. I guess they didn't want to have a risk of k-i-s-s-i-n-g between the two guys.
François
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For starters, we don't know
For starters, we don't know if they won't appear in each other's issues.
And Hulking meeting Captain Marvel is something that's needed to be dealt with ever since Marvel brought him back.
So, you don't find weird
So, you don't find weird that no sign of physical affection between them has been shown so far? Or maybe I've missed something. I certainly don't read every Marvel comic.
François
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They haven't kissed yet, but
They haven't kissed yet, but there have been signs of physical affection between the two.
Furthermore, it's not like Marvel has a policy against showing two guys kiss, or something. I think in Ultimate X-Men Northstar and Colossus kissed, for example. There was also X-Statix.
According to Tom Brevoort, "Originally, Allan pitched Hulkling as a female character using her shape-changing abilities to pose as a man. I suspect this was as close as Allan felt he could get to depicting an openly gay relationship in a Marvel comic. But as we got underway... he started to have second thoughts and approached me about maintaining Hulkling and Wiccan as two involved male characters."
Cylon, Great Icon
I suppose you like the new Battlestar Galactica. What do you think about the upcoming "RAZOR" and season 4.
I thought season 3 was crap.
I liked the first half a
I liked the first half a lot, with the Cylon occupation. The second half (after the D'anna conclusion) was slow, and didn't pick up until towards the end.
I loved Cain, so I'm looking forward for Razor.
That RSS feed for doorQ.com is coming, Lyle!
We had bookoo code problems when we launched. The RSS feed has suffered as a result. But we're getting there. More features and a new page layout will be in place by the end of the month, promise!
In the meantime, come back and check out my latest rant on the lack of guy-on-guy sexing in MASS EFFECT:
http://www.doorq.com/Blog.aspx?b=156
Or check out more of our cool fiction. Just keep reading!
Jody, the doorQ in charge of doorQ.com.