I'm so glad people are wasting time on this (sarcasm tag)

[mariness]

A group of mothers protesting all those gay superheroes in Marvel and DC Comics.

A couple of reactions:

1. So, yes, I stopped being a regular Marvel reader years ago, but, seriously, am I actually expected to think that Northstar's marriage is going to influence anyone that much? Northstar's? I am willing to bet that about half the people reading

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[ravena_kade]

I know who Northstar is ;-) I haven't read comics since the mid 90's, but I used to live X-men and Wolverine. I find it amazing that the Mom's would come out to protest a gay marriage, but not anything else. I love Wolverine, but in the comics he is not what I would call a good child role model. His violence levels are off the charts.

One time I had a ceramics class and a Grandmother wanted me to paint a Wolverine on a lamp base for her 5 year old grandson's bedroom. The kid was watching the cartoon X-Men. The Grandmother asked me if I could get her some of the comic books so she could give them to the grandkid. I suggested against it. At that time Magneto had pulled all the Admantium out of Wolvie and the comic was grim. I brought her in a few that I had and showed her the violence (which I was glued to)...

and a marriage is getting protests for trying to influence.

Not a role model

[dewline]

Wolverine's been written to admit as much to other characters more than once, as I recall.

And as for the irony here...yeah, it can burn.

[mariness]

We could probably spend months listing more morally questionable Marvel moments than the various marriages....well, I guess Cyclops marrying the clone of his true love and then dumping the clone when the original girlfriend kinda came back counts as a morally questionable marriage moment, but I'm getting off topic here...

[fbhjr]

I used to read Alpha Flight when Northstar was a free Quebec terrorist and he and his sister had the hots for the same guy.
Then it turned out he was some sort of a half-elf and therefore not gay but a fairy.
I stopped reading it.

[dewline]

And the further away Marvel's publication dates and sliding, self-compressing timeline taken them from the old FLQ crises, the more likely it is that they'll do to that part of Northstar's history what's been done to Iron Man's Vietnam-era backstory...

[mariness]

Admittedly, about the only things that made Northstar interesting was that he was gay and a downhill skier. Apart from that I generally found him annoying.

[ckd]

When Archie beats you to it, you're not being edgy.

[malterre]

For. The. Win.

[mariness]

So true.

[kirylyn]

I actually had to rack my brain trying to remember WHO Northstar was *rolls eyes*

if the million moms want to get into an uproar, go after some of the sports figures who are less than ideal role models.

or should we be happy that the moms are upset that their kids are reading period?

[mariness]

I remembered him from various X-Men/Alpha Flight crossovers, though I was never into Alpha Flight enough to pay much attention to him. Mostly I found him annoying, although I liked the downhill skiing stuff.

I think Million Moms can find stuff that's considerably more objectionable in comics that this particular rather pathetic attempt by Marvel to bump sales up by doing something "different." Then again, I also think Million Moms could focus attention on actual problems like soup kitchens, but that's probably just me.

[kirylyn]

I actually had to rack my brain trying to remember WHO Northstar was *rolls eyes*

if the million moms want to get into an uproar, go after some of the sports figures who are less than ideal role models.

or should we be happy that the moms are upset that their kids are reading period?