DC gets flak for hiring ‘homophobic’ writer

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Fans hit DC comics for hiring an anti-gay Mormon writer for a new Superman comic book to be launched this year. DC commissions Orson Scott Card, author of Ender’s Game, to write the first two installments of its new digital-first comic, Adventures of Superman. Card has been vocal about his anti-gay views. In 2004, he wrote an essay where he said gay people were not “normal.” Fans of Superman and DC question the decision of a company which in the past is seen as progressive with its editorial decision. The move prompts calls for a boycott on the company and an online petition to push DC to drop the story lines written by Card.

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