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Marvel’s newest mutant is a drag queen and her name is Shade

sudshr47 January 9, 2019

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You might want to hop on the Iceman spin-off train. Marvel’s making good choices, thanks in large part to writer Sina Grace.

The fourth issue of the recently launched series introduced a new mutant. She possesses teleportation powers, and she can create and enter a pocket dimension inside her handheld folding fan.

Oh yeah, she’s also Marvel’s first drag queen superheroAnd her name is Shade.

Here’s her first appearance, in a page from the comic that Grace helpfully re-tweeted.

There’s a Drag Queen mutant now and I am here for it. Iceman #4@SinaGrace pic.twitter.com/S6vZ9Hhpeu

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China’s second-largest gaming company to sell comics assets to rival

sudshr47 December 12, 2018

China’s online youth entertainment platform Bilibili said it has agreed to buy major assets from the comics arm of gaming giant NetEase, which helped introduce Marvel’s first batch of Chinese superheroes in May. The deal announced on Wednesday will see Bilibili acquire the copyrights of a large number of popular storylines from NetEase to beef up […]

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Powerful Stan Lee column from 1968 about racism resurfaces on Twitter

sudshr47 November 12, 2018

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Following the death of Marvel comics’ Stan Lee, people have begun recirculating a 1968 column Lee wrote denouncing racism (something a disturbing number of politicians refuse to do to this day).

As part of his storied comics career, Lee spent almost four decades writing regular installments of  “Stan’s Soapbox” on the backs of comics, in which he frequently fought for his heroes’ values of tolerance and equality. 

“Bigotry and racism are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today…It’s totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race — to despise an entire nation — to vilify an entire religion,” Lee wrote. “…Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill out hearts with tolerance.” Read more…

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10 gifts for the fan who has a love/hate relationship with Marvel

sudshr47 October 16, 2018

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Whether you’re drawn to the blockbuster movies, to Netflix, to old-school cartoons or to the comics that started it all, you know by now that it’s Marvel’s world and we’re only living in it. It’s tough, sometimes, to know that you’re a teeny, tiny cog in a massive corporate entertainment empire, that no matter how much you tweet about Black Widow’s character assassination you know you’re still buying tickets for Avengers 4 in 2019.

We see you, and we hear you, emotionally exhausted Marvel fans. It’s okay to love and hate your faves – in fact, we encourage it. Here are 10 gifts for the Marvel fan in your life who constantly switches between love and hate. Read more…

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“Venom” is better than it has any right to be

sudshr47 October 2, 2018

What happens when a cast of Oscar contenders like Tom Hardy, Riz Ahmed and Michelle Williams are turned loose to chew the scenery of a (seemingly wryly self-aware) B movie? Audiences get “Venom”, the latest bid from Sony Pictures to create its own superhero mega-franchise now that storylines for the studio’s web-slinging centerpiece have merged […]

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DC Comics’ streaming service launches tomorrow

sudshr47 September 14, 2018

Tomorrow is apparently Batman Day. That mostly means promotions from the folks at DC Entertainment and the long-awaited launch of the company’s DC Universe streaming service. If nothing else, the site is an interesting mix of multimedia content in a world of video-only sites, including original series, older content and digital comics. Users who signed […]

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Ruby Rose to debut as The CW’s Batwoman

sudshr47 August 7, 2018

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Ruby Rose will be donning the legendary cowl of Batwoman on the CW, TV Line reports. Her character will debut in a December crossover of Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, and Legends of Tomorrow, with a standalone series in the works for 2019.

Batwoman a.k.a. Kate Kane is “armed with a passion for social justice and a flair for speaking her mind.” That and “highly trained street fighter” seem pretty in line with Rose’s badass on-screen persona (have you seen xXx: Return of Xander Cage??).

The character is also canonically lesbian, as is Rose, and producers were specifically scouting an actress of the same sexuality to better inform the character, along with writer Caroline Dries (The Vampire Diaries), who also identifies as a lesbian. Read more…

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