Thursday, June 01, 2006

Mary B. Cheney-Gordon


Lesbian Batwoman

The new-look Batwoman is just one of a wave of ethnically and sexually diverse characters entering the DC Comics universe.

Others include Mexican teenager Blue Beetle - who replaces the character's previous white incarnation - and the Great Ten, a government-sponsored team of Chinese superheroes.

Regular characters Firestorm and The Atom, meanwhile, have been reinvented as black and Asian heroes respectively.

The characters are part of a wider effort to broaden the make-up of comic-book creations in line with society as a whole.


Aajjdif Sajjdif majjdif bluurgjadif what da huh! Holly Concentrating on The Wrong Thing! Maybe in the 80's or early 90's this could have worked. But now people are going to see it in a hip to be cynical now way and not buy into it.

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