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Brown-Eyed Girl
Feb. 10th, 2006 04:54 pm| Your Eyes Should Be Brown |
 Your eyes reflect: Depth and wisdom What's hidden behind your eyes: A tender heart |
Good thing my eyes are brown, then. :)
Feb. 10th, 2006
Good thing my eyes are brown, then. :)
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Feb. 10th, 2006 06:42 pmLast month, Joe Quesada, the Editor-in-Chief at Marvel Comics made some self-congratulatory comments in light of the recent success of Brokeback Mountain. He wanted readers to remember that Marvel had a gay cowboy long before BBM came out. Indeed, a few years ago, Marvel outed a gay cowboy of their own called Rawhide Kid.
Well, shortly thereafter, despite the success of BBM, Quesada announced that Marvel would be excluding the Rawhide Kid from an upcoming project, because a gay cowboy is too controversial.
I shouldn't be surprised. This is a company that refused to comment to the press after they made history by bringing the first mainstream superhero (Northstar), out of the closet in 1992. And then published a four-issue mini-series about the character, wherein the writer never mentioned that Northstar was gay.
Anyway, this all sparked a hot debate on some of the comic forums about why Marvel would shelve a gay character so uncerimoniously and whether or not Marvel is indeed as homophobic as it would appear. Here's Quesada trying to wiggle out of it:
( Cowboys are too manly to be gay, you see... )
Well, shortly thereafter, despite the success of BBM, Quesada announced that Marvel would be excluding the Rawhide Kid from an upcoming project, because a gay cowboy is too controversial.
I shouldn't be surprised. This is a company that refused to comment to the press after they made history by bringing the first mainstream superhero (Northstar), out of the closet in 1992. And then published a four-issue mini-series about the character, wherein the writer never mentioned that Northstar was gay.
Anyway, this all sparked a hot debate on some of the comic forums about why Marvel would shelve a gay character so uncerimoniously and whether or not Marvel is indeed as homophobic as it would appear. Here's Quesada trying to wiggle out of it:
( Cowboys are too manly to be gay, you see... )