DC announced a new editorial line-up including more female creators (Ming Doyle writing Constantine, swoon) and more female-led books (Black Canary! Starfire! PREZ!).
And then, Captain Marvel & Ms. Marvel editor Sana Amanat was promoted to Marvel’s new Director of Content & Character Development.
gailsimone ain’t lying. Today is a very good day for women in comics.
Plus!!!
Cyborg, a prominent black hero, is not only getting his own book, he’s going to be written by a black man (David Walker)!
Midnighter, a gay hero, is getting his own solo title!
Annie Wu is drawing Black Canary!
Starfire is being written and drawn by female creators (Amanda Conner (with Jimmy Palmiotti) and Emanuela Lupacchino, respectively)!
Chinese-American writer Gene Luen Yang (author of the acclaimed graphic novel The Shadow Hero, which I really want to read) is writing Superman! (And Shadow Hero artist Sonny Liew drawing Dr Fate!)
Genevieve Valentine, who was originally slated to write only one Catwoman arc, is continuing as the series writer!
Look at the tonal shift! Bizarro? Bat-Mite?? Prez??? These are not the kind of books I’d have expected to see in the all grimdark, all the time New 52 even a year ago.
I was around the corner from the gift shop where I got the balloon
(this was the only ‘love’ one they had left, and it’s either clever or hopeless, I kinda futzing love it, I relate to this balloon)
and these kids were harassin’ this dog, so I said ‘hey leave the dog alone, c’mon, not cool.’
so then they’re like ‘hey mister we’ll sell him to you.’
not gonna lie I admire that kind of moxie
they wanted twenty futzing bucks
I gave them a dollar it is seriously all the cash I had
dented pizza is still delicious, he’s laughing and blaming his afternoon on wearing a shirt with buttons (‘I have never ever had a day go right when I wore a shirt with buttons’)
ladies and gentlemen the ever-unchanging clint barton
Somehow I don’t know where this came from, but they’d be so great together and quite… explosive. Maybe their personalities are too similar… or not, hmm… Anyway, time travel is always awesome.