Spike Spiegel
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Marvel: New 'Hercules' ongoing will feature a heterosexual protagonist.
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http://www.comicbookresources.com/a...-diversity-problems-bendis-iron-man-expansion
Subsequent writers can change things whenever they feel like it. See several characters coming out as bisexual in Young Avengers a couple of years ago.
The bisexual hints for Herc himself were rather recent no? Perhaps someone picks up on that again in the future. Perhaps not. There are plenty of LGB characters in the Marvel U who aren't just hinted at.
The bisexual hints for Herc himself were rather recent no? Perhaps someone picks up on that again in the future. Perhaps not. There are plenty of LGB characters in the Marvel U who aren't just hinted at.
Ninja Scooter
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Alternate Universes are the worst
Shamrock7r
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I'm really unfamiliar with Hercules. How long was his run when he was gay/bisexual?
edit: oh reading the chat it was just an alternate version. He was never bisexual in the mainline comics?
edit: oh reading the chat it was just an alternate version. He was never bisexual in the mainline comics?
Escape Goat
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Im unclear why we should be excited for this new series.
Coffee Dog
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I highly doubt that we'll never see bisexual Hercules again. Like, highly highly doubt.
Dan Abnett's a good writer.
Dan Abnett's a good writer.
Callibretto
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that is a cool art. I only know Hercules from the goofy image often post in comic thread like him with shehulk or him with Thor. never got the image he's supposed to be serious character, lol
Shamrock7r
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It kind of reminds of Dan Jurgens' (think I got that right) work in the 90s
Beautiful.
Escape Goat
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Good news. But I dont know what his approach is to this particular character.
By no means a guarantee this run will be anything like the last.
Jeevesmeister
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There's a bunch of people on Twitter really mad about this.
They're still regularly dumping money into Marvel/DC properties on a regular basis after constant social justice snafus on an almost regular basis.
Nothing's going to change.
They're still regularly dumping money into Marvel/DC properties on a regular basis after constant social justice snafus on an almost regular basis.
Nothing's going to change.
Won't someone think of the tweeters?
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
What was the first word?
Deified Data
Banned
What's a "social justice snafu"?
It's going to be just like the New 52. Most will be culled. Regardless of the average quality, there's no way that many books are going to put up enough numbers to justify keeping them going.
As along as Ultimates pull safe numbers, everything else could go keep Squirrel Girl company on the sales charts,
Just checked the charts, Goddamn Captain Marvel.
Lol
TheDarkKnight774
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Just to put in context. The joke image was tweeted out by marvels PR people and then retweeted by Marvels EIC
Talk about some tone deaf PR
I don't know about 6 months. If they can keep a Legion solo book going for 24 issues, I am sure Herc can stick around for at least a year.
PeskyToaster
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being straight is a snafu?
George Oscar Bluth II
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I wonder how many of those angry with this decision were going to buy the comic anyway.
Those faces weird me out.
Legion the mutant? He has his own book?
There was an alternative Herc that showed up a year or so ago who had a relationship with Logan from the same alternative universe.
Some people expected that would mean Herc would be bi in the normal universe as well.
But since he's not some are deciding to take offense to that.
Had. It ended last year.
I was talking about the Marvel Now! series during Marvel's last line refresh
I only read the first issue or two, but I heard that it was pretty good.
foxuzamaki
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I dont know anything about the characer except a few panals posted here and therem and his infamous dumb thumbs up picture.
But looking at the cover it seems to be taking place in new york, I thought hercules was part of the intergalactic universe of marvel, aka thor, GOTG, nova, etc.
But looking at the cover it seems to be taking place in new york, I thought hercules was part of the intergalactic universe of marvel, aka thor, GOTG, nova, etc.
realtalk: ever since I've heard Greg Pak's Herc run was a thing, I've had some level of sympathy for Hercules, so I had some interest in the book. This whole bi erasure thing soured me a whole lot on it, to the point where I think I'll spend my money elsewhere.
I am going to have to track it down, I am curious at what they did with him. 24 issues? And they canceled the Nightcrawler series at 12.
He travels. He gets around, more so than THor.
birthday-suit
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It was a throwaway comment in one issue.
Doesn't count as major character development.
You can still look at him as bi or omnisexual, just that the current writer is choosing not to cover it.
I'm starting to hate comics, creators, and their fans for things like this.
Having a character be one way, but then changing them into something else.
Like the whole doombots retcon thing. But when you do it with social issues people take personal stock.
Doesn't count as major character development.
You can still look at him as bi or omnisexual, just that the current writer is choosing not to cover it.
I'm starting to hate comics, creators, and their fans for things like this.
Having a character be one way, but then changing them into something else.
Like the whole doombots retcon thing. But when you do it with social issues people take personal stock.
Spike Spiegel
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"was a thing?" What kind of thing are you thinking that it was?
i read all 3 issues of World Watch, and that comic where writer went insane in the middle of issue two than claimed Mark Twain took over duties and wrote issue 3.
Fucking Chuck Austen
I mean, since the comic books came out and got some critical acclaim.
Supermanisdead
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bi-erasure is real
birthday-suit
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Its wasn't on the level of Shatterstar though.
From what I understand it was a throwaway line.
Might as well do a series based on Rogues affair with the Sentry.
No, they're not the same, because the Sentry thing was reaaaaaally stupid. But the Sentry thing at least had a mini storyline around it.
RatskyWatsky
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People are too hip to the "wait and see" option select (options being either do nothing and wait till it all blows over or actually do the thing and make the naysayers look bad) cause companies have used the former option too much. He had to say something. Could have said something far better than this, but "wait and see" wouldn't have been enough.
It will be interesting if they reverse course and make Abbott rewriter, or they will just go ahead.
Cause they can't let shit happen organically.
DC and Marvel suck at romance
Awful I laughed, but this and the Bobby/Iceman being gay thing was just poorly handled both times.
Seriously, dumb PR. Didn't even need to say "wait and see", which would have been purposefully misleading, he could've just said something like "the romantic subplot involves a women, that's not necessarily saying that he's straight, he could be bi but his orientation is never really discussed". And then nobody would be talking about this.
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