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Too political? Or too limiting? And as an aside...is there a big market for gay superheros?
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The creative team on DC Comics' "Batwoman," a comic book starring a lesbian crimefighter, have quit the title, citing editorial decisions by DC that they say "compromise the character and the series" including the scuttling of a planned wedding between Batwoman and her policewoman girlfriend. But while acknowledging editorial differences with the creators of the GLAAD award-winning comic, DC maintains that they are not related to the character's sexuality.
Writer W. Haden Blackman and artist and co-writer JH Williams III wrote in a blog post that they'll leave the comic after issue 26, the Hollywood Reporter said. Since the comic launched in September 2011, the pair had chronicled the adventures of a lesbian of Jewish descent who, inspired by Batman, finds super criminals as the masked vigilante Batwoman. Meanwhile, in her civilian identity as Kate Kane, she conducts a romance with police detective Maggie Sawyer.
In issue 17, Batwoman popped the question to Sawyer, the first lesbian wedding proposal in a mainstream comic. But in a tweet to a ComicsAlliance.com editor this week, Williams said, "We fought to get them engaged, but were told emphatically no marriage can result."
In their blog post, Blackman and Williams wrote, "In recent months DC has asked us to alter or completely discard many long-standing storylines in ways that we feel compromise the character and the series." Among the "eleventh-hour" directives they said left them "frustrated and angry," the creative team said that they were "most crushingly, prohibited from ever showing Kate and Maggie actually getting married."
'Batwoman' creators quit, saying DC Comics forbade lesbian marriage* - TODAY.com
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The creative team on DC Comics' "Batwoman," a comic book starring a lesbian crimefighter, have quit the title, citing editorial decisions by DC that they say "compromise the character and the series" including the scuttling of a planned wedding between Batwoman and her policewoman girlfriend. But while acknowledging editorial differences with the creators of the GLAAD award-winning comic, DC maintains that they are not related to the character's sexuality.
Writer W. Haden Blackman and artist and co-writer JH Williams III wrote in a blog post that they'll leave the comic after issue 26, the Hollywood Reporter said. Since the comic launched in September 2011, the pair had chronicled the adventures of a lesbian of Jewish descent who, inspired by Batman, finds super criminals as the masked vigilante Batwoman. Meanwhile, in her civilian identity as Kate Kane, she conducts a romance with police detective Maggie Sawyer.
In issue 17, Batwoman popped the question to Sawyer, the first lesbian wedding proposal in a mainstream comic. But in a tweet to a ComicsAlliance.com editor this week, Williams said, "We fought to get them engaged, but were told emphatically no marriage can result."
In their blog post, Blackman and Williams wrote, "In recent months DC has asked us to alter or completely discard many long-standing storylines in ways that we feel compromise the character and the series." Among the "eleventh-hour" directives they said left them "frustrated and angry," the creative team said that they were "most crushingly, prohibited from ever showing Kate and Maggie actually getting married."
'Batwoman' creators quit, saying DC Comics forbade lesbian marriage* - TODAY.com
..probably crowds of them, whining isn't far away when fruits and nuts are involved.
