Bad Things Happen to Green Arrow's Sidekicks (SPOILERS)

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She also exposes one of the few limitations of the otherwise awesome Hester/Parks art style, I'm never totally sure if the blonde chewing out Ollie is Mia or Dinah (Black Canary).

"NORTHSTAR. Studying the history of Northstar is like taking a clinic on how to completely mishandle a gay character. In brief:

1. Decide you're going to have a major character in one of your books be gay. But don't come right out and say it; dance around the topic as much as is humanly possible.

2. Have other characters imply that he is (a) a weakling, (b) a sissy or (c) not really a part of the team, because he's "keeping secrets".

3. Give him a really hot sister for the fanboys to crack off to, so that they don't fly into a panic at being confronted with their own sublimated homosexuality and stop reading the comic en masse.

4. Make sure that he's got some other repellent personality traits so that we're forced to despise him right off the bat, like he's really arrogant, or French, or both.

5. As soon as is humanly possible, give him AIDS.

6. When you are inevitably criticized for giving him AIDS, go into a tailspin of damage control and come up with some ridiculously convoluted "explanation" for how he doesn't really have AIDS after all. Like, for example, you could say that it was part of a nefarious plot by Loki. That should stick!

7. Kill him anyway.

8. Years later, try and claim credit for having been brave enough to create one of the first gay characters in comics. Do this with all the pride of the utterly shameless."

His father turned out to be an evil alien bent on conquering Earth. Now, Invincible's newest young pal, William, who's been part of the series since its launch, will have his own demon to battle - Athlete's Foot.
According to Creator Robert Kirkman, the revelation will come in December's Invincible #19, as William, who was a teenage high school student when Invincible befriended him, learns that his time spent in the gym locker room resulted in him getting the fungus.

""We've been hinting all along the way that he's interested in taking up the mantle, being a sidekick, getting out there in the streets and helping out," Kirkman told anyone who will listen. "Invincible won't be sharing socks with him any time soon."

The revelation, according to Kirkman makes William push Invincible even more to let him allow him to be his sidekick. "It's no big deal, it's curable with the right cream, but he can't fool around anymore. This isn't about an itchy foot condition. It is about life having focus," he told anyone who will listen.

William is coming to terms with it in the way most young people are. It isn't about throwing your shoes out and becoming a shut-in. Young people, for good or for bad, are still pretty fearless. With drug combination therapy people are dealing with the condition quite admirably," Kirkman told anyone who will listen. "He seems to be unafraid of Athlete's Foot, he's mostly feeling like no one is ever going to love him, but that's just because he's kind of an annoying guy."

Invincible 17 will be in stores soon. The ground-breaking Invincible #19 should be hitting the shelves in early December.

No MTV tie-ins are planned

Also the voice acting on Raven in the animated series is perfect, and her character in the comics would probably annoy me much more if I couldn't hear the voice in my head.

AND THAT'S WHY MELTZER IS A GREAT WRITER!!!!!!!!

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Seriously? You put your kid on the potty at 11? When do you put her to bed? WTF is wrong with you people?
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I think he means age 11

Potty-training arrow

Seriously? You put your kid on the potty at 11? When do you put her to bed? WTF is wrong with you people?

if you have a toddler that you're trying to wean off sleeping in diapers I can see how you might wake them up to put them on the potty so they don't pee the bed in their sleep...? maybe?

We're daytime potty-training right now, and I can kinda see the logic in that. BUT, getting her to actually stay in bed at bedtime is enough of an ordeal, I'm not waking her up unless the house is on fire.

also "dealing with Mia's HIV" = mention it twice more over six years then erase the entire DCU continuity so that you never have to worry about it again.

still listening to Supergods audiobook, GM just called GL/GA "the Simon & Garfunkel of crimefighting"

Done up by my friend Gabe: http://thesidekickcomplex.tumblr.com/post/6907454878/speedy-at-the-factory-by-gabriel-hardman

ILM/ILC crossover action like you like it!