Various Sites Note DC’s Stated Intention To Publish Heavily-Debated Orson Scott Card Superman Story

Here's one such article noting that Dan DiDio in the recent ICv2.com interview featuring himself and Jim Lee declared that DC still intends to publish Orson Scott Card's Superman originally intended to help launch an online/print Superman anthology featuring various creators. When initially announced, that move was widely criticized because of the iconic nature of Superman's virtuous status as a character combined with Card's seemingly demented-in-their-severity calls for resistance to gays having the right to marry. A similar protest has begun to coalesce around a forthcoming movie version of Card's well-liked Ender's Game work.

I have to admit, I blew right past that part of the interview, I think because I find it hard to believe that if DC wanted such a story done they couldn't have had it completed by now, even with artists -- like the first one assigned -- reluctant to perform the assignment. In other words, I kind of thought that this was the face-saving language of DC complying with the request of those objecting. And I could still be right. It didn't strike me until reading this new batch of articles that a lot of people may want DC to abandon that story and a working relationship with Card on Superman in a stronger way than the existing story not simply managing to see print, or not seeing print right away. So I'm kind of at a loss at what happens next. Bears watching, though.
 
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