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Thursday Runaround – Gay Marriage, Gender Balance And General Electric

Published Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:55:49 -0600

Last updated Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:12:43 -0600

MarriageWatch: CNN runs preview clips of Life With Archie #16 – or as we're calling it, the first gay biracial military wedding in kids comics.

LocalWatch: Kody Chamberlain gets local press for Sweets and Punks ahead of a signing at Barnes & Noble with Rob Guillory in Lafayette, LA.

GenderWatch: In the week of November 16th, DC had 13.5% female creators, while Marvel slid down to 8.8% female creators.

PropagandaWatch: How General Electric recruited young engineers by brainwashing them with comic books.

Watchmen2Watch: See, this is what happens when people start believing scurrilous rumours.

Though no release dates have being given, DC have said they hope to have their planned prequels to Alan Moore's 1987 deconstruction of the superhero genre Watchmen sometime in 2012. Not much is known about the project, other than it will chart the lives of the characters before the events of the book took place.

LocalWatch2: Fiona Staples celebrates with her local Calgary press over landing the Saga gig with Brian K Vaughan.

Staples, a graduate of the Alberta College of Arts & Design, counted herself as a fan, but she had never met Vaughan, nor had she communicated with him. So when his query landed in her inbox, she "couldn't believe it at first."

"I thought it had to be some kind of trick," says the 27-year-old artist, laughing. "Some kind of mistake."

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At its core, Saga is an intimate tale revolving around two soldiers from opposing sides in a galactic war who fall in love and have a child.

"All of these absurd things are happening in this insane universe, but at the same time our heroes' problems and relationships feel very real," Staples says. "They're people I think a lot of us can relate to."

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"We're creating this entire universe from the ground up," she says. "It's not set on Earth. You can't just copy things from reality. You have to invent everything from scratch . . . every location and building, every character and species. . . . It's a lot of work, a lot of responsibility. But it's rewarding."

MarriageWatch2: And because not all marriage is gay marriage, the comic book proposal that sealed the deal.

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