Everybody in Comics Is Catching the Gays
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As you may have heard, Marvel announced that longtime gay superhero Northstar will be getting gay-married in tomorrow’s extra-gay issue of Astonishingly Gay X-Men. They announced this on The View, the ladies’ talk show with Whoopi Goldberg and Barbara Walters, which is infinitely more interesting than the actual event. Meanwhile, DC has announced that one of their characters who is yet to be reintroduced to the DCnU in June will now suddenly be gayballs; this character will not be top-tier — so no Batman-level or anything — but major enough for DC to mention to every website that will listen multiple times this week. Oh, and DC president Dan Didio only said “a character” was going to be gay, which means it’s not necessarily a hero. For the record, Before Watchmen starts in June; so it could technically be Rorschach, which would probably finally drive Alan Moore to murder. So fingers crossed there.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.