{"id":4873,"date":"2010-01-17T04:13:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T09:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=4873"},"modified":"2010-01-17T04:13:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T09:13:57","slug":"really-idw-orson-scott-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=4873","title":{"rendered":"Really, IDW? Orson Scott Card?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I realize I’m kinda famous for not reading the Previews until it’s almost-too-late, but I do occasionally try to catch up on other websites’ mentions of the Previews, and I just saw Chris Sims<\/a> agreeing with Dorian Wright<\/a> that Orson Scott Card writing an adaptation of a video game made famous for its gay characters and storylines is total bullshit.<\/p>\n

Dragon Age<\/em> is a story-based RPG which features gay characters and gives players the option of playing a gay or bisexual hero if they wish to. Because this is the sort of thing gay video game players like, the game has received a mostly positive reception from the gay media.
\nIDW decided that the best person to write a comic in this setting is Orson Scott Card, a man so homophobic\u00a0he has advocated treason in the event that gay marriage becomes the law of the land<\/a>.
\nSo, basically the good people at IDW can just go fuck themselves.<\/p>\n

– Dorian Wright, Postmodern Barney<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t know if I’d go so far as Dorian in my condemnation of the publisher–I like a couple of the folks at IDW quite a bit–but sincerely, fuck Orson Scott Card, and fuck that book, and what were you thinking in hiring him, for that book in particular.<\/em><\/p>\n

I mean, if nothing else, as soon as either gay or videogame media gets a hold of this there’s going to be a total shitstorm. Which I, for one, welcome with open arms. And I mean by “if nothing else” that we disregard all of the basic reasons of human dignity not to give that proselytizing jack-ass any more money to fund his vicious hate-speech. Which in the comics industry we are all expected to do, all the time, for some stupid fucking reason.<\/p>\n

– Chris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I realize I’m kinda famous for not reading the Previews until it’s almost-too-late, but I do occasionally try to catch up on other websites’ mentions of the Previews, and I just saw Chris Sims agreeing with Dorian Wright that Orson Scott Card writing an adaptation of a video game made famous for its gay characters … <\/p>\n

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