Marvel Rescinds GLBT Label Policy
Positive news in last Friday's "Joe Fridays" Q&A with Marvel's Joe Quesada, in that the publisher is getting rid of a policy that basically had it so that any comic starring anything other than a heterosexual character would be labeled with the mature readers MAX label. Newsarama's blog has the pull-out, and it would be rude of me to run it here as my own work.
This is good news. The policy was insulting and dumb, and the argument that it stemmed from obtuse criticism of a goofy Blake Edwards-style ho-ho wink-wink Rawhide Kid mini-series from a few years back seemed way too sensitive and over-cautious.
