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by **LOLtron** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:25 pm

This Captain Marvel variant cover by Avi Granov betrays an alarming trend at Marvel Comics!

This reporter was outraged and a little bit saddened today to see this press release from Marvel comics. After several weeks of comics getting increasingly gayer, culminating in the defeat of the hate group One Million Moms on Facebook, Marvel comics appears to be backing away from it's initiative to feature gay characters more prominently in its comics. While the Northstar gay wedding is still scheduled to take place in Astonishing X-Men #51, it appears that Carol Danvers' haircut is being changed from a homosexual character haircut to a straight one.

When pics of Danvers as the newly rebooted DC superhero Captain Marvel first surfaced, the haircut was clearly lesbian. However, after fan complaints, Marvel subtly made the haircut longer and softer in a reworked version of the same image. Now, it seems, Marvel has abandoned all pretense and Carol Danvers' haircut has gone full blown straight.

The Outhouse urges Marvel not to give up in its fight to get money and attention from featuring gay characters and haircuts in its comics, and reconsider this decision before it's too late. At the very least, if Danvers is going to lose the haircut, perhaps she could start wearing Doc Marten boots to make up for it. Check out the press release below, and then observe the devolution of Captain Marvel's butch haircut in the following images.

Adi Granov Takes Flight With CAPTAIN MARVEL #1 GRANOV VARIANT!

Marvel is proud to present your first look at fan favorite artist Adi Granov's variant cover to the premiere issue of the all-new ongoing series, Captain Marvel #1! The "mightiest" of Earth's Mightiest Heroes is back with a new name, a new mission – and enough power to make her life a living hell! But if anyone can handle stakes that high, it's ace pilot and legendary Avenger, Carol Danvers! Captain America & Spider-Man guest star in Kelly DeConnick and Dexter Soy's explosive Captain Marvel #1, which flies into comic shops everywhere, the Marvel Comics app and the Marvel Digital Comics Shop this July.

CAPTAIN MARVEL #1 (MAY120693)
CAPTAIN MARVEL #1 GRANOV VARIANT (MAY120694)
Written by KELLY SUE DeCONNICK
Penciled by DEXTER SOY
Cover by ED MCGUINNESS
Variant Cover by ADI GRANOV
FOC – 6/25/12, On-Sale – 7/18/12

Source: Press Release
Written or Contributed by: Jude Terror

http://www.theouthousers.com/index.php/news/comics-news/19741-is-marvel-getting-cold-feet-about-gays-in-comics.html/

by **Timbales** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:41 pm

straight women cut their hair all the time after a life changing event, has no one watched Felicity?

by **sdsichero** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:46 pm

Hair... grows? :shock:

mine doesn't... sad

by **Greg** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:46 pm

Timbales wrote:straight women cut their hair all the time after a life changing event, has no one watched Felicity?

by **GLX** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:47 pm

Granov cover > McGuinness cover

by **Victorian Squid** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 4:48 pm

They toned down those damn thunder thighs too.

by **Grayson** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:04 pm

LOLtron wrote:

Good, because in my opinion, this is absolutely better than the alternatives.

by **ReturnoftheMack** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:32 pm

Of course they are.

Mutants are the equivalent of gays in the MU. Now a force is coming to earth that may eradicate them. Who hates gays the most? People from Arizona. Hence The Phoenix.

by **Victorian Squid** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:37 pm

The darker-toned clip on hair still brings a laugh though, good grief who gave the thumbs up to either one of the first two? Sometimes even your best artists need to be sent back to the drawing board to start from scratch every once in a long while, apparently. You know things are bad when they send out Wacker to be a forum troll on BC. :lol:

by **Log-Man** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:39 pm

The President wrote:Of course they are.

Mutants are the equivalent of gays in the MU. Now a force is coming to earth that may eradicate them. Who hates gays the most? People from Arizona. Hence The Phoenix.

My god, that actually makes sense. :shock:

by **Greg** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:47 pm

Log-Man wrote:
My god, that actually makes sense.

by **Arion** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 7:58 pm

Timbales wrote:straight women cut their hair all the time after a life changing event, has no one watched Felicity?

I did. And she was doomed for that.

by **draco x** » Thu Jun 07, 2012 12:36 am

So having a horrible hairstyle and a shitty costume automatically makes her a lesbian? Who came up with that idiotic conclusion? For everyone's information, a woman having short hair doesn't mean she is butch-I mean look at Maria Hill or Daisy Johnson who both have short hair and are confirmed as heterosexual. This would be like saying Leonard Samson or Thor are gay because they have long hair.

by **S.F. Jude Terror** » Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:06 am

draco x wrote:So having a horrible hairstyle and a shitty costume automatically makes her a lesbian? Who came up with that idiotic conclusion? For everyone's information, a woman having short hair doesn't mean she is butch-I mean look at Maria Hill or Daisy Johnson who both have short hair and are confirmed as heterosexual. This would be like saying Leonard Samson or Thor are gay because they have long hair.

I never called her a lesbian. I said her hair was a lesbian.

by **draco x** » Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:27 am

S.F. Jude Terror wrote:
I never called her a lesbian. I said her hair was a lesbian.

I see. I had assumed that Marvel was the one who came up with that decision and you were just passing the information yourself. I personally don't see how a bad haircut would make her look butch from my point of view. The only thing I saw when I looked at that lame hairstyle and crappy costume was Marvel's upteenth attempt to force another Captain Marvel legacy character down our throats as they don't seem to get the fact that nobody for the most part cares enough to read the new upcoming series in the long run.