Ok, so. Gail Simone has a Tumblr. Last night on that Tumblr, she answered quite a number of fan questions left in her ask box. One of them was mine (mini-squee), with a thoughtful reply about the new Suicide Squad, though really I am still not giving it any more of my money because I remain QUITE HET UP about Savant, Waller, and a lot of other things.
One of them forthrightly stated that Catman (Thomas Blake) is bisexual.
Thus, the squee heard 'round the Internet. I think everyone who read that comment simultaneously gasped and shrieked. A lot of fans of Secret Six already ship Catman and Deadshot, and now they have ammo to back that up. I don't, personally (I love their WE ARE NOT FRIENDS DAMMIT bro-ship), but man oh man would I love to see Catman and Bane, Catman and Batman (der), Catman and Creote because apparently Savant is dead, Catman and pretty much anyone. This is awesome news for lots of people. More LGBTIQ characters in comics? Yes please. And she's writing a trans character right now! For what? For Firestorm? For Batgirl? Oh I can't wait to find out.
Also--Jesus Christ, Marvel, let this woman write Iron Fist already! My kingdom for that book.
3 comments:
This is indeed awesome news. The times are changing, in spite of the lame efforts of a shrinking homophobic minority!
(As a relative comic newbie)That is great news I think it is definitely progress in the right direction. As I have heard on the three chicks podcast the LGBTQ number of characters is very small and going against the homophobic majority is great
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