A little while ago, I covered the upcoming addition of Bunker to the Teen Titans team in this column. Now, as part of that, I mentioned how I thought it was a shame that they wouldn’t be focusing on people having negative reactions to him and his sexuality in the book, especially not from his fellow team mates.

Now, it has been asked of me why I think that’s a shame, and isn’t it better that a state of total acceptance is shown. And yes, that would be lovely in the real world, certainly. And when we get to that stage when it is the norm, then yes, we should definitely only have sexuality in comics handled as such. But sadly, that isn’t how it is in the real world. This is fiction we are talking about too, but sometimes fiction bears some powerful responsibilities in the context of the real world it’s released into.

My thoughts on this are maybe a little complicated, and I myself have been struggling to clarify it, so bear with me.

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Still undecided whether there is going to be a Sidekick presence at October's MCM Expo but the news that Gail Simone will be appearing may've just forced my hand, you glorious MCM bastards. Now we just need to get a team together for the Battle of the Blooggers.

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A record number of artists and writers will be flocking to MCM Expo London Comic Con’s Comic Village next month – and we’re delighted to announce that acclaimed American comic book writer Gail Simone and best-selling British science fiction author Peter F. Hamilton will be among our special guests.

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It's been exciting times with all this DC relaunch news, exciting but exhausting, being on this side of the pond makes it difficult to keep up but here is a collection of all the covers for the relauched Bat Family books with a little bit of comment by me when I think it's needed.

Detective Comics #1 - Tony Daniel

Writing and drawing from Tony Daniel again, he's done it well before just after Batman: RIP, tough job but if anyone can do it, he can. Shame Detective is going back to #1 but I'm certainly not as cut up about it as some fanboys, it just a number dudes.

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Link: http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2011/06/02/the-new-justice/

We saw the full cover to Geoff Johns and Jim Lee's JUSTICE LEAGUE #1 yesterday but today DC have dropped a whole lot more on us with another look at all the latest relaunch covers and yes it seems this is now being called a relaunch and not a reboot. So far I'd say these are looking very 90's, all extra pipping in the suits, new belts, funky boots, bigger claws and trousers for the ladies. We'll still have to wait and see how they turn out but at the moment I'm looking forward to getting me some Savage Hawkman action, hell yeah!

WONDER WOMAN #1 - Brian Azzarello, Cliff Chiang.

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