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Also, find out Batmom's maiden name! It's not Kane! Earth 2 #3 continues the world building and while Green is the new Gay, his name is still Alan and not Alac, right? Fighting the rot on Earth 52 is Buddy Baker in Animal Man #11 I love this book and it's cool to see Cliff get[...]

You may kiss the grooms... Mike Perkins, artist of Astonishing X-Men #51 is selling pages from that issue, but this is probably the one that will go for

Unscripted, reality CC. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBA6c5E_PQk[/youtube] This week we celebrate the release of Astonishing X-Men #51 with a renewal of wedding vows (Gay Marriage) in the store of two longtime customers, Mikal & Chris Officiated by another regular customer, Stan C About 25 or more friends, family and customers as well as local media showed up for the event[...]

The San Diego Comic Fest was born out of those discussions. WeddingWatch3: SoSoGay went to the Orbital celebration in London on Tuesday night. Regulars at Circa bar in Soho would have noticed something a bit different on Tuesday night: a stand selling comics and a big creamy wedding cake Which can only mean it was the second[...]

Wedding fever is clearly in the air... the celebrate the marriage of Northstar and Kyle in Astonishing X-Men #51 today, Earthworld Comics in Albany, New

In November, one gay icon meets another, in Archie Comics. Kevin Keller #6 will co-star George Takei, best known as Lieutenant Sulu And it was at a comic convention that George met Kevin's creator Dan Parent and succumbed to Parent's request that the two meet in person George and Kevin, that is. Here's hoping Kevin's future husband[...]

WeddingWatch: The New York Times reports on today's same-sex wedding at Midtown Comics Downtown, to coincide with the launch of Astonishing X-Men #51. In

Here's a scene from tonight's launch of Astonishing X-Men #51, featuring the wedding of Northstar and his boyfriend Kyle, from Orbital Comics in London, and the gay nightclub CIRCA Blinding. Of course, that was before the footie began… Here's a scene from tonight's launch of Astonishing X-Men #51, featuring the wedding of Northstar and his boyfriend[...]

We mentioned this last week, but Midtown Comics has now given out more details. Along with a number of comic stores across the country, Midtown Comics Downtown in Manhattan are hosting a same-sex wedding in their store between customers  Scott Everhart and Khris Wilson to coincide with the release this week of Astonishing X-Men #51, featuring a[...]

VegasWatch: Darick Robertson, Robert Kirkman and Jason Aaron join the guest list of MorrisonCon. GayWatch: This is the year the comics industry turned gay But CNN asks if a comic book character's sexual orientation really news? By running a story about it So, yes, obviously. GayWatch2: Erie TV looks at a local take on said news; "I would[...]

Orbital Comics in London is situated close to Soho, the gay mecca of London And on Frith Street, lies CIRCA, a gay club that opened last year. To celebrate the wedding of Northstar & Kyle in Astonishing X-Men #51 Orbital will be hosting a wedding reception/party at there on Tuesday June 19 from 7:15pm. There will be[...]

Artist of the cancelled Alpha Flight series, Dale Eaglesham posted a few weeks ago; This drives me absolutely crazy: Greg, Fred and I do all the work of

One Brazilian blog which has previously shown a rather homophobic view of the recent gay marriage plotline in comic books, is claiming that there will be a retailer boycott of Green Lantern products in the country, Specifically citing Fantastico, a Brazilian TV show that reported the story as the main Green Lantern being gay, alongside shots[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_eeH6dOswE[/youtube] DC Comics has announced that Alan Scott, the first Green Lantern, is gay! In light of that controversial and historic decision, host Grace Randolph and guest Alan Kistler discuss the history of gay characters in comics Alan Scott aka the Green Lantern, Northstar, Batwoman, Kevin Keller, Obsidian, Wiccan, Hulkling and more! Who is your favorite[...]

There were mentions that a similar thing happened to minority characters (thanks to Ryan Choi, now known as being "matchboxed")  and to gay characters… though the latter didn't have a name "Trained" doesn't sound right "Bullet Trained"? "Gays In Bullet Trains?" That has a certain deathly quality to it… Okay, I gave it a day. Some[...]

Unscripted, reality CC. This week, with the release of Earth Two #2 we ask customers how they feel about gay characters in comic books and their opinions on how they are introduced and written. Next, CC Store Manager Dave shares his opinion of Bleeding Cool Issue #0 which was released today. Owner Randy after reading nearly the whole[...]

Marvel got so much press for its X-Men Wedding Proposal issue, even if it was slightly diverted by press over this week's DC Comics outing of the original

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBY6tlnjSmI Top Ten Comic Book Deaths! Supurbia #4, host Grace Randolph's original comic book from BOOM Studios, is hitting

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usuOU8tiqp0[/youtube] Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Florida writes; This week is total comic overload! Something for everyone, even if your personal fetish is seeing gay heroes punch cats in the face! Seriously! Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1 was so good I think it may turn the tide on the whole prequels issue[...]

When the mainstream media caught up with the existence of gay superhero characters again And when we delved into Frank Miller's childhood past for his current inspiration Oh and I went to a Jubilee celebration in my Captain Britain T-Shirt. And in the week that Bleeding Cool Magazine #0 hits comic stores, according to Technorati, Bleeding[...]

Here's a batch of San Diego Comic Con exclusive items that can be pre-ordered by retailers to pick up at the show, or shipped afterwards, though the

As we've noted, all current media seems obsessed with a gay Green Lantern or a Gay X-Man or usually both. None more than Brazilian TV programme Fantastico, which recently ran a piece on the companies' news, mixing up Alan Scott and Hal Jordan on the way, bringing in Wertham allegations against Batman and Grant Morrison's Playboy[...]

And a launch party for Ellipsis by Tom Humberstone on Friday, July 27th, 7pm -8.30pm. ApeWatch: From Boom, in September… Planet Of The Apes: Cataclysm. KickWatch: Check out this Kickstarter campaign for an upcoming graphic novel called The Adventures of Joe and Nancy. PassWatch: As the publicity over gay superheroes seems to posess every media organisation going, agaian,[...]

"Both myself and Mike Conroy, who is advising us administration matters, discussed the situation with publisher Ivo Milicevic, who has bankrolled the project so far, and agreed the logistics of getting the first issue of the new incarnation printed and into the shops for our planned launch date were simply insurmountable at this time." Once STRIP Issue 5[...]

Right then. Can anyone beat this? From Zatara The Magician by Gardner Fox and Fred Guardineer, in Action Comics #12 from 1939, courtesy of Comic Book Tit

And while that predates, say, Peter Milligan and Mike Allred on X-Statix, as well as Warren Ellis, Bryan Hitch, Mark Millar and Frank Quitely on The Authority… it doesn't predate The Enigma, by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo. Originally created for Disney's Touchstone Comics, but picked up by DC Comics when that publishing plan went pear[...]

With the revelation that Iron Patriot is, in some form, to appear in Iron Man 3, there suddenly appears to be a rush on the character's first appearances.

Here's the cover to the Retailer customizable cover for Astonishing X-Men #51, which would allow a store to add their own wedding photo alongside the

Who'd have thought Queen Elizabeth II would have thrown herself into the Before Watchmen debate? Or the Gay Green Lantern controversy? But that's effectively what's happened. This weekend is the Diamond Jubilee, the celebration of sixty years ruling as Queen, and the country is in celebration mood My kids are dressing in Union Jacks, there is pageantry throughout[...]

It won't be news to any readers of Bleeding Cool who originally broke this story (a number of times), but today DC Comics let news organisations run the news that Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern, was to be reinvented as a gay man for the Earth 2 series The issue in question ships to[...]