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So Aquaman isn't in Justice League War. But Aquaman is getting his own movie. And Aquaman was in the Flashpoint Paradox movie, as was a certain sidekick,

Again, one of those headlines that ten years, I couldn't have even envisaged. In an interview with Back2Stonewall, Archie writer Dan Parent has revealed

There's been relationships. There's been a marriage. But up until today, gay kisses have been off the table. But in today's issue of Archie Comics, Kevin

Erotic Lives Of The Superheroes is a novel by Marco Mancassola originally published in 2008 and now with a new English translation and... it's probably

Nice big massive spoilers for today's Fearless Defenders. Because they've created a rather interesting set up today. From next issue's solicitations, "New

It's an anthology put out by Prism Comics, a non-profit publisher that supports LGBT comics, creators and readers The panel was moderated by the editor of the anthology Charles "Zan" Christensen, who was also the founding President of Prism. I identify as bisexual, which is part of the reason I chose to cover the panel[...]

Louis Falcetti writes; The panel for Bizarre? Queer? Perfect: Taming The Wild Webcomics Frontier, was an inspiring, interesting experience, featuring an

By Dale Lazarov. Illustration by David Shenton I used to feel I had a lot of common cause and patience for the whole "Y ur comics haf no gay??" complaint.

Remember folks, gay superheroes don't sell. Yet somehow a Kickstarter campaign for Young Protectors has just blown past $85,000 in raised revenue, six

It does seem like something's in the air right now. Batgirl, Storm Dogs, FF, Red Hood And The Outlaws, Non Humans, Demon Knights, all seem to be exploring

Archie Comics has just won one GLAAD Award, but that's clearly not enough. We've had a same-sex wedding, now it's time for a same-sex kiss. Funny, I

It wasn't easy being gay a long time ago in that galaxy far, far away.

From the new copy of The Gay Times out today, accompanying an interview with Kieron Gillen about the Young Avengers, and this art from the upcoming new

In today's Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Nine #15, starring... Billy The Vampire Slayer,

Chris Thompson writes; The Marvel Now! odyssey continues as Taylor & I set our sights on A+X #1 and Wolverine & The X-Men #19 (which was a

2000AD's Twitter account tweets: Has someone finally melted Judge Dredd's stony heart? Find out in January 2013...

I'd approached comic creator Christian Beranek for an article for Bleeding Cool earlier this summer, specifically after I was made aware of reaction to

Mild spoilers for Earth 2 #3 published today from DC Comics.

At the time Dan stated they would introduce new LGBT characters rather than switch orientation, but the question asked why DC would switch race, size, age, all sorts of identifying features, but not orientation. Surprisingly, Dan stated that they had changed DC's policy in this regard And they ae about to reintroduce a previously existing DC[...]

Other nominated comic books were Avengers: The Children's Crusade, Secret Six, Veronica Presents: Kevin Keller and X-Factor. This is a second win for writer/artist JH Williams III, who won two years ago with Greg Rucka for Detective Comics featuring the same character. The GLAAD Awards, now in their 23rd year, celebrate the portrayal of LGBT issues in[...]

The price is still unstable, copies could potentially be exchanging hands for $100 by the weekend. As a piece of LGBT history, this has the potential to be a collectable item for quite some time… Marvel, DC, take note.       In the battle of One Million Moms (who have now moved onto protesting against ABC's TV series Good[...]

UPDATE: John Goldwater, c0-CEO of Archie Comics has responded to the story below. He writes; "We stand by Life with Archie #16. As I’ve said before,

When Letters Pages Go Anti-Gay

Northwest Press, a specialist in publising LGBT comics, has announced that Apple have approved a number of their titles without any issues, including one graphic novel featuring explicit gay sex scenes in its iBooks store, This is quite a jump from from last year when the whiff of a gay kiss or a bare bottom was[...]

The Advocate has published an interview with DC Comics Co-Publisher Dan DiDio on the DCU's cast of LGBT characters A couple of hilights: Why did you choose to attach such a high-profile gay character to Batman as apposed to other characters like Superman or Wonder Woman? There's a lot more characters that inhabit Batman's world[...]

Gail Simone, Phil Jiminez, Carla Speed McNeil, Dan Parent, Donna Barr and Andy Mangels are all providing pages for a new, larger print run of The Power

Although in two of these cases the character 'got better' (albeit through a brief 'evil' phase in one case), Marvel came under some pretty heavy flack amongst LGBT readers for killing the character three times in a month Do you think that Marvel really 'fumbled the ball' in this case? There was also a rumour that[...]

Including Marc Andreyko, author of Torso, Manhunter and Ferryman. Joe Glass:  What's your opinion of the current level of representation of LGBTQ characters and issues in mainstream superhero comics at the moment? How would you like to see it improved, if you feel it needs to be? Marc Andreyko: WELL, THINGS ARE BETTER THAN THEY HAVE EVER[...]

First up, Gail Simone, writer of books including Welcome To Tranquility, Secret Six and Birds Of Prey. Joe Glass: What do you feel is DCs stance on LGBTQ characters and issues appearing in their comics? Or if there is an official line, would you be able to comment on it? Gail Simone: Oh, I don't think there's[...]