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Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury’s cautionary tale about book censorship, was written as a response to the paranoid political climate of the McCarthy era, but its message apparently still hasn’t sunk in. It’s 2016, and some kids still aren’t allowed to read the book without a permission slip from their parents. Daily Show head writer Daniel Radosh…
Before he became a member of the PayPal Mafia or invested in Facebook, Silicon Valley billionaire and Donald Trump delegate Peter Thiel co-wrote a book called The Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and Political Tolerance on Campus. Published in 1995, the book is notorious for its rigorous defense of a Stanford law student’s homophobic outbursts at a…
The divisions over Peter Thiel and his support for Donald Trump are deepening in Silicon Valley. Dismay over the billionaire venture capitalist’s stance on the Republican candidate has been showing up all across the technology landscape — from a startup founder saying he regrets taking a Trump backer’s money to a prominent diversity group refusing…
UPDATE 10/20/16 4:15PM EDT Midtown Comics has pulled the Invincible Iron Man #1 variant cover by J. Scott Williams of Riri Williams out of her Ironheart armor. A quick peek at Midtown Comics site show the variant with a bold “DO NOT USE (Item Canceled)” declaration. Marvel representatives confirmed to me the choice to pull…
Yesterday Marvel revealed a variant cover for their upcoming Invincible Iron Man title featuring 15-year-old Riri Williams. It provoked strong reactions from both fans and creators, and it looks like Marvel has responded by canceling the cover and showing us their more conventional depiction of the character. break Donna Dickens dove into this one…
But the important thing here is: how does J. Scott Campbell feel? Source: CBR Yesterday we reported on the controversial variant cover by artist J. Scott Campbell depicting Marvel’s new teenage black girl character, Riri Williams, who takes over the role of Iron Man in Invincible Iron Man. We also reported on the far more…
And he’s certainly not going to let something like valid criticism force him to grow as a person. Source: Twitter Superstar comics cover artist J. Scott Campbell isn’t the type of man to let complaints about his sexualized drawing of a fifteen year old girl spoil his otherwise perfect day. The superstar artist, known for…
Do we even need to write an article here? Just make your own jokes! Source: Bleeding Cool According to a report from Bleeding Cool, Italian porn artist Milo Manara and professional art troll Frank Cho are heading up a comic con panel on women at LUCCA in Tusany, Italy. Topics are expected to include: bewbs,…
At the end of the last version of the Marvel Universe, Dr. Doom became something like a hero. He snatched enough power from near-omnipotent beings to stop the end of the multiverse and saved portions of various multiple realities. Now that things are back to normal, he’s evil again. Or is he? Two weeks ago,…
Yesterday, Marvel announced that Tony Stark would be walking away from his latest suit of power armor. His replacement is going to be Riri Williams, a genius MIT student who isn’t old enough to drink yet. (So no “Demon in a Bottle” storyline for her, I guess.) Riri Williams first appeared was in a subplot…