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Misgendering In DC Comics Today – Teen Titans Academy & Action Comics
Teen Titans Academy #10 sees Stitch going up against the Titans on a major point of principle. But also throws in a more minor one. We start with the idea of the Titans considering the possibility of killing a teenager, Dane, one of their own students, to avoid an apocalypse.
In Teen Titans Academy Yearbook, student Matt Price called Stitch an androgynous ragdoll that has magically come to life, though Stitch described themselves as a nonbinary effigy.
Which leads to Arsenal being even more dismissive than he thought he was being.
Oh, Roy Harper – and you only just came back from the dead as well. And it's not as if he doesn't know the importance of identifying and self-expressing labels, earlier in that very issue…
Stitch certainly does know the value of names as well as pronouns, including the gender implications of them, as well.
I mean even the slave society of Warworld in today's Action Comics #1039 knows to respect the expressed pronouns of their captors…
… including OMAC, the One Man Army Corps, who has made his pronouns clear.
And we know WarWorld was spying on Superman and his cohorts – it looks like word made it through.
TEEN TITANS ACADEMY #10 CVR A RAFA SANDOVAL
(W) Tim Sheridan (A) Mike Norton (CA) Rafa Sandoval
Dane, a.k.a. Nevermore, came to the academy to become a hero, but circumstance and fate are leading him down a much darker path. To understand their future, the Titans must look into the complicated past of their most mysterious student—and unearth truths that may leave them with an impossible choice.
Retail: $3.99 In-Store Date: 12/28/2021ACTION COMICS #1039 CVR A DANIEL SAMPERE
(W) Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Shawn Aldridge (A) Riccardo Federici and Adriana Melo (CA) Daniel Sampere
Weeks after arriving on Warworld, Superman and the Authority are still learning the art of survival. But Superman refuses to bow to Mongul's law, continuing to risk his life for his new allies, his fellow slaves, and even his enemies. As members of the Authority fight Mongul's rule from the shadows, Superman discovers an ancient mystery regarding Warworld's true origins… that he himself may play a part in. Also featuring Martin Manhunter Part Three! Retail: $4.99 In-Store Date: 01/25/2022