oh my fucking god
i dont understand
i do
oh my fucking god
i dont understand
i do
A Minority in Comics Post:
First off let me say congratulations to the happy couple Northstar and his new husband Kyle! So happy to see Northstar finally able to marry the man he loves.
For decades, Comics has always been the minority in media merchandise and entertainment. Comics have been around since multimedia started to revolutionize such as cinema and radio shows. The stories have always been vastly different than any media, even to this day and century. No other type of media has the time and budget to create an entire universe with people who can move planets and travel alternate realities by will shown multiples times every year. Would any of you believe in the 1990’s Marvel was on the verge of bankruptcy, about to vanish from the face of the earth?
And now, in 2012, it is now a multi-billion dollar corporation, the most popular comic book company in the world, and just made a Movie Franchise that made 3 billion dollars in profit, and half of that money is from the latest movie released not even a month ago?
Comic books and the fans across the world loving comics has been vastly accepted throughout social circles, where I tell people I’m in love with comics and they react in a way that is ten times more positive than it would be in the 90’s.
Comic book industries have known for years, both the executive staff, writers and artist alike that they are in a media medium that is a minority. They are actually the first industry to have many minorities in their franchises and not be extremely stereotypical in the modern era.
There are many superhero characters, iconic or brand new, have always been praised throughout the media, accepted and loved. Many of these people I can think of are:
- John Stewart, an African American Green Lantern, and from fan reception is dubbed as DC’s Greatest Green Lantern from Earth, who served his country as a Marine, and is personally my favorite Green Lantern as well.
- Jim “Rhodey” Rhodes, A.K.A. Iron Man II/War Machine. An African American Air Force veteran, and best friend to Tony Stark, who has always been Tony’s voice of reason, getting him out of trouble, and took the mantle of Iron Man when Tony had a major Alcohol problem.
- Batwoman, DC’s first openly Gay Superheroine. She is a beautiful and dazzling socialite at night, and became a crimefighter later at night.
- Bunker, DC’s new gay teen Superhero, who despite being flamboyant, has such a realistic personality
- T’Challa: The Black Panther, who is one of the most intelligent heroes in the Marvel Universe, a is ruler of a country that is most technologically advanced country in the Marvel Earth.
- Luke Cage, who may have been a convict, is now a reformed criminal and one of the most popular Avengers in the 21st Century, now the leader of both the new, independent Avengers and the Thunderbolts. Not only that, but is in love, married and had a beautiful daughter with Jessica Jones, a white Superheroine.
- Isaiah Bradley, who in recent comics, is dubbed as the first Captain America. His grandson is now Patriot, a Young Super Soldier who leads the Young Avengers.
- Speaking of Young Avengers, we have Billy Kaplan and Teddy Altman a.k.a. Wiccan and Hulkling, and I find them as one of the greatest couples in the Marvel universe, gay or straight.
- in the Ultimate universe, Colossus and Northstar were a couple for a time, where Colossus’s mainstream counterpart, is straight.
- In that same universe, a young Hispanic/African American teen took the mantle of Spider-man, with a new costume, personality, and is extremely bright young boy, as we will see once his series continue, and is one of Marvel Comics’ most talked about hero in the new decade.
Comics have shown so many minorities and make them into great, believable characters that we all come to know and love for years to come.
In celebration of this marriage in the X-men family, and to the anticipation of DC revealing an iconic DC hero as openly gay, I advise you to go to http://www.freedomtomarry.org/, and sign the petition for congress to advise the marriage act, and give every human being the right in America to marry whoever they choose to.
I support Gay marriage just as Obama has, but doesn’t make me or him gay at all. It just makes us two straight men who believe every human being, gay, bi or transsexual, has the right to marry the person they love and take the next step in their relationship to have a family and many benefits in insurance and security.
Comic books not only show people saving the world countless of times, they also these heroes changing it. So if these guys can do it, why can’t we do it too in the real world?
*Note: These were some of the great minority characters that I could think of on the top of my head for this post. If you have any more minorities in Superhero comics I did not think of, please submit them to me or tell me in my ask, and I’ll be sure to update this post!
**Another Note, I was not able to upload all my photos in this set, so the rest will be in the bottom of this text, such as Miles and Colossus.
/casually throws Rictor also in
Rictor/Julio Esteban Richter
Openly gay Mexican who shared Marvel’s first MAINSTREAM superhero male-male kiss with Shatterstar.
Tony and Steve discover the identity of the Spider-Man.
STOP MAKING ME CRY.
RIGHT IN THE SUPERFAMILY FEELS
So, in the wake of reading this terrifying shit, Postcard and I started chatting, as you do, about the zombie apocalypse. Here are some things Postcard and I enjoy: zombie media, common sense, and YELLING ABOUT STUFF. Thus, for your reading…
Also buy the zombie survival handbook. It has all sorts of strategies to keep your house safe, to arm yourself, how you arm yourself and types of possible infected.
strawberrieninja reblogged your post: It’s my blog and I’ll cry if I want too.
*sees you walking away upset…follows you. clings* I’m really bad at staying in touch…
;; I am too bb. We need to find time to get online at the same time and talk weh. I miss you terriblyyyy.
awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
Bill Nye the Science Guy and the Mythbusters
want to try and learn to draw marks face
cover it
go me
I might poke around with this some other time some more but now I must sleep oops
