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Artist Chris Sprouse Drops Out Of Orson Scott Card SUPERMAN Story

DC Comics recently came under fire after their decision to appoint noted anti-gay writer Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game) to work on their latest Superman anthology series, and now the project has lost illustrator Chris Sprouse..

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By Mark "RorMachine" Cassidy - 3/5/2013
When DC commissioned Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card to write the Adventures of Superman digital comic coming this April, the backlash was predictably severe. Card, a long-time critic of homosexuality, has called gay marriage "the end of democracy in America", and in 2009 he became a board member of the National Organization for Marriage - a group that campaigns against same-sex marriage. The news has sparked outrage in many circles, and now the artist that was set to collaborate with Card on the project has stepped away.



Here is what Sprouse had to say in a statement:

"It took a lot of thought to come to this conclusion, but I've decided to step back as the artist on this story. The media surrounding this story reached the point where it took away from the actual work, and that's something I wasn't comfortable with. My relationship with DC Comics remains as strong as ever, and I look forward to my next project with them."


DC also issued a statement supporting Sprouse, and revealing that because of his departure the story that was to feature he and Card would be pushed back to a later date. The first issue launches digitally on April 29, and then in print starting May 29th.







Source: Via THR
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Netman0007 - 3/5/2013, 7:56 PM
What the [frick]. Was he asked to draw Superman melting gays with his heat vision or something? Was the script filled with shit like that?

ARE YOU PROFESSIONAL OR NOT?!?!?!?!
hawkeyevision - 3/5/2013, 7:57 PM
Good for him.There are plenty of talented writers who aren't biggots.
AmericanPsychoWolf - 3/5/2013, 8:01 PM
Somehow, I'm not surprise.
pud333 - 3/5/2013, 8:04 PM
Good. Orson Scott Card is entitled to his ridiculous beliefs. And Sprouse is entitled to walk away from the project. Hopefully other artists refuse to work with OSC. Just like I'm never going to pay for anything OSC does.
ahhmynuts - 3/5/2013, 8:07 PM
damn bigot
2Challa - 3/5/2013, 8:08 PM
This has nothing to do with anything but my company just got to record a song with the Project Pat. I am too excited not to share this in all of my favorite venues.
ToTheManInTheColdSweat - 3/5/2013, 8:09 PM
smh, we should be more tolerant to people who aren't tolerant of other peoples lifestyles. lmbo.

otoh, why do these christian [frick]s get so bent out of shape about who some guy or girl is screwing.
"no, you can't screw a man because my god says so.
oh you don't believe in my god?
doesn't matter you still can't have sex or you will go to hell.
you don't believe in hell?
doesn't matter you are still going to hell".
StormLoganSummers - 3/5/2013, 8:10 PM
I'd say that this was unfortunate, but I'd be lying, so I won't.
unknownfacts - 3/5/2013, 8:10 PM
Biggoted towards the biggot that helps every thing.So long as he keeps his personal veiws out of the comic I don't see the problem.
ToTheManInTheColdSweat - 3/5/2013, 8:10 PM
hush2010

i don't know who the project pat are, but congratulations.
Jollem - 3/5/2013, 8:11 PM
people having hatred towards someones personal sexual preference is pretty worthless and pathetic
OdinsBeard - 3/5/2013, 8:11 PM
good. u gotta stand for something in this world.
masterhater - 3/5/2013, 8:12 PM
Good for him. Card deserves not to be with DC.
prettynucIear - 3/5/2013, 8:17 PM
Scott is a saint compared to Frank Miller. He's just trying to follow his religion.
90caliber - 3/5/2013, 8:17 PM
Project Pat is a person.
AlexTheKaiser - 3/5/2013, 8:23 PM
I've just realized that the people who attack the gay community and the people who attack the homophobic are almost the exact same thing. Just with different view points, but basically the same.
raccoonwithrockets - 3/5/2013, 8:25 PM
He should probably keep his personal views out of comic books.
JorL5150 - 3/5/2013, 8:28 PM
- whoopdee [frick].

Cowards.

So DC can introduce a gay character to show diversity- but instead they take an established hetero character of 70 years and arbitrarily MAKE him gay.

A writer believes that the 5000 historical precedent of hetero/religious marriage is sacred and he is ineligible to write for dc.

Try not to break your shoulder patting yourselves on the back.

Zillafart can stop offering reach-arounds and get overitself. Filthy creature.
MJPETTY7 - 3/5/2013, 8:28 PM
I'm kinda mad that this story was pushed back because I was looking forward to it. Hopefully whatever story they put in the "Adventures of Superman #1" slot will be good. I can't wait for this series to start!
Fastestmanalive - 3/5/2013, 8:29 PM
Wow. Whatever happened to free speech and accepting people with different opinions then you?

These people claim to be so tolerant of everyone but they cant accept when someone has a different opinion then them that they have to bully people out of work. theyre as bad as the people they claim to hate, so sad.
Whovian - 3/5/2013, 8:35 PM
Another voice silenced by the intolerance of the tolerance police. Word to the wise: Free speech works both ways.
0bstreperous - 3/5/2013, 8:51 PM
I've never read any Scott card but im gonna start just to counterbalance all these people who are just as hateful and spiteful

@jorel5150 and fastest manalive and whovian you guys are all right!
asdalhjljh - 3/5/2013, 9:04 PM
I hope everyone bashing Card on this site at least holds to the courage of their convictions and vehemently protests and bashes the new film of Ender's Game, Card's seminal and classic work of science fiction.

Bucking Figots.
Jollem - 3/5/2013, 9:12 PM
i don't dislike card for his beliefs or mindset, but i still believe my first statement
DeadManDann - 3/5/2013, 9:17 PM
@Fastestmanalive

Why must we accept hatred and prejudice? This isn't a "different opinion." This is hate. These people don't deserve respect in any way, shape or form. If you don't understand the difference, things are wrong with you.

If it's someone's opinion that all babies ought to be killed, should we accept that as well? Is that all good in the hood? Christ, some of you oughta listen to yourselves.

@AlexTheKaiser
"I've just realized that the people who attack the gay community and the people who attack the homophobic are almost the exact same thing. Just with different view points, but basically the same."

This is just mind-numbingly stupid. Wanna know the difference? One side irrationally hates (and often hurts) a group of people for their sexual preference, something they can't help. Kids are killing themselves because of constant bullying and persecution, and these types of people are responsible. The other side obviously DOESN'T REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. This really shouldn't need explaining. There is such astounding stupidity on this site. Some of you clearly don't understand this, but being tolerant of intolerance doesn't make a whole bunch of sense.

When views are based on misconceptions, falsehoods, and good ol' bigotry, they are NOT valid opinions. Simple as that.

Idiots.
VictorMadsen - 3/5/2013, 9:20 PM
@ Obsteperous
Card is legitimately a very good writer. And rather prolific, too.
I can't say that counterbalancing hate and spite is at all a bad thing, but I hope when you pick up something of Card's to read, it'll at least partially be because what he's written is worth your time.

Back to the primary topic:
I don't agree with OSC's beliefs and I'm therefore predisposed to not like how he comes across when talking about them, but I'm also remarkably uninterested in his personal life. I read his fiction without letting what I know of him as a person cast a shadow over the characters he's created.
If he ever wrote and published a book with a clear and heavy handed anti-gay slant, I would neither buy it nor read it, but it's existence isn't going to dilute my enjoyment of "Ender's Game".
SudsMerrick - 3/5/2013, 9:21 PM
The reason why the people who are affronted by the idea of Card writing this story aren't upset just because he has a different opinion. A different opinion is fine. Hue is a chairperson and funder of NOM the National Organization for Marriage. The primary goal of this organization is to financially lobby and and campaign against equal marriage laws.
DC wrote him a paycheck funding Card is funding NOM. In that sense DC comics indirectly funded support against equal marriage laws.

It's the same as if he was chair man of an Anti-semitic group or a pro-slavery lobby.

Sprouse as an artist is sturdy enough to not care one way our the other and just didn't want his work to be viewed as anything but another part to Ann already negative story. That's respectable.
BenderDickCumPatch - 3/5/2013, 9:21 PM
Card can suck a donkey off.
HeadCreeps - 3/5/2013, 9:27 PM
@DeadManDann
Couldn't have said it better myself
It boggles the mind when people throw the "free speech" card when hate like this is spewed as if that makes the statement okay. DC shouldn't fund someone like Card. Im sure they wouldn't hire someone who's openly anti-Semitic.
fettastic - 3/5/2013, 9:32 PM
I seem to recall being tolerant of Hitler and the KKK didn't work out so well.

At some point you have to say ENOUGH! If you hate this society so [frick]ing bad go live in a goddamned log cabin in the boonies but you don't get to tell everyone they are abominations for not being a carbon copy of you then throw up your hands and play the victim anytime someone tells you to shut up.

Some people have absoloutely no ethical barometer. That would be the people that can't seem to distinguish between endorsing and condeming hate speech.
spiderken1 - 3/5/2013, 9:34 PM
Reading some of these comments are nauseating. @DeadmanDan: glad to see that there are still compassionate and understanding people in this world. As a gay man myself (I'm probably going to get vilified by the idiots on here) I'd like to say thank you for your statement. I find it silly got these so called comic book fans say they agree with this bigot, and yet the books they read (X-Men) is supposed to teach them about accepting people in general and not be intolerant how hypocritical of them shame on them. let's hope they can continue to evolve themselves open their minds and realize we are all human beings and we should all treat one another with love and respect. PEACE!!
AmericanPsychoWolf - 3/5/2013, 9:55 PM
So, I guess by some of the comments here, its okay for the KKK to say the same thing because of freedom of speech....

And yeah, we attack bigots because they are the ones causing all this damage in the first place. But do we go after them? NO! They go after us and tell us to respect their beliefs....

[frick] THEIR BELIEFS! I will not respect any beliefs that are hateful towards people because of their sexual orientation. Our belief is that people (gay and straight) should have all rights including equal marriage...WHAT THE [frick] IS WRONG WITH THAT!

[frick]ing morons, free speech......HA! That went out the door ages ago, don't pull that shit.
TheHeat - 3/5/2013, 10:15 PM
I don't know who the bigger pansies and faggots are; those who Card is against, or those crying about Card's beliefs.
TheHeat - 3/5/2013, 10:18 PM
"If it's someone's opinion that all babies ought to be killed, should we accept that as well?"

I bet you don't blink an eye when a child is killed via abortion.
Jollem - 3/5/2013, 10:23 PM
lol. oh, george
HeadCreeps - 3/5/2013, 10:29 PM
"I bet you don't blink an eye when a child is killed via abortion"

I bet you don't blink an eye when gays are killed.
See, i can make pretty big assumptions as well.
fettastic - 3/5/2013, 10:30 PM
Here's the thing. There are gay people all around you. They aren't hurting anybody. There's nothing "wrong" with them. They are exactly like you. They like the same things you do. They have moms and dads, brothers and sisters. They feel pain and loss, joy and triumph. They laugh and cry. They aren't evil or perverted.

But to you that's somehow not good enough. To you they aren't really human. To you they're just a stereotype, something to joke about, a nasty name to call someone.

News flash: You don't pick the winners and losers. You don't pick who's good or bad, normal or abnormal. You're no better or more important than anyone else and just because there's more people like you in one tiny way....doesn't mean any of them actually LIKE you. You don't get a gold star because you have a high testosterone count. You haven't won anything and you don't deserve any special privledges.

You're just a schmo like the rest of us. So get off your goddamned high horse and stop looking for someone to spit on. Like my mother used to say, "Take care of your own business. That's a full time job."
XavierLehnsherr - 3/5/2013, 10:34 PM
People that hate gays should stick a finger up their ass to see how good it feels.

It's a great new way to cum.
daveB - 3/5/2013, 10:51 PM
I don't have a problem with a gay writer so why do gays have a problem with card? Sounds like hypocrits to me. It's the end of America when someone is attacked for a belief. Gays say they just want live and let live...I guess unless you have a belief against them-- then they attack you. Hypocrits me thinks.
unknownfacts - 3/5/2013, 11:03 PM
If Card's anti beleif comes from a religious back round then there is nothing technically wrong with it as there are verses in the bible that are against homo-sexuality but none which says to physically harm those that are gay.Now if it's from a personal stand point that homosexuality is the down fall of society well there isn't much we can do about that either.After all he lives in America where most people are entitled to their own opinion no matter how bone head/misinform it maybe.So long the man doesn't physically harm a gay person the man is entitled to his own opinion.
Marxman12 - 3/5/2013, 11:08 PM
The whole lot of you are mindless bullies who can't think for yourselves. Orson Scott Card NEVER uttered a single hateful word towards the LGBT community. He believes, as I do, that the best form of marriage is between a man and a woman. We could argue the ins and outs of this complex message or we can all be adults and stop bashing a man for his own private opinions. You don't see me boycotting Hollywood for all the dumb [crap] they say and do. I watch movies, TV shows, listen to music- do whatever I like, no matter what the artist's opinion is. Stop bullying people that think differently than you. Boycotting and character-bashing IS bullying.
Marxman12 - 3/5/2013, 11:09 PM
Exactly @unknownfacts!
novaprime - 3/5/2013, 11:23 PM
People have the Right to say wat they feel, who nos wat happen to him bacl there with dc, give the man A Break!!
OtakuPapi - 3/5/2013, 11:34 PM
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1270411036/the-death-of-superman-lives-what-happened
pepe - 3/5/2013, 11:47 PM
This is why Marvel is da winner... nuff said
GetsugaTensho22 - 3/6/2013, 12:16 AM
the KKK ARE allowed to hold rallies and the opinions they have. So moot point there.
hush - 3/6/2013, 12:18 AM
The point is Superman is a role model. He's more than just a 'character'. How can someone write a character when they don't truly understand what he stands for?

The one thing I have always adored about America is their freedom of speech and how Americans embrace this liberty and protect it. Unfortunately there are always people abuse that. He doesn't have to like gay people - point in turn, homosexuals don't have to like him.

I have too many gay friends to just ignore bigotry. I won't be buying these issues.

As The Joker would say 'It's about the message...'
NoAssemblyReqd - 3/6/2013, 12:27 AM
OSC has actively and outwardly worked to deny rights to people. When he did that, his opinions were no longer private.

I loved his work, especially his short fiction. But it's tough to want to read his stuff anymore now that I know what a bigoted idiot he is.

You don't have to like a person to appreciate his work. Heck, I actually like one Chris Brown song. But when that person uses their fame to promote a cause you vehemently disagree with, you're justified in feeling disgusted and not wanting to continue to fund their work.
hush - 3/6/2013, 12:32 AM
And for all you Bible nutters - the very very very few comments made about homosexuality in The Bible are all old testament verses, Jesus Christ only ever promoted being kind to each other and treating everyone as equal. But by your thinking, we need to follow The Bible down to the very word, which in turn means...

"A bitched shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord." (Deuteronomy 23:2)

A bitched is someone who was born outside of wedlock, which means you were born before your parents were married. Being born out of wedlock makes you filthy, apparently; so filthy in fact that it takes ten genetic steps down the line to wash how filthy it makes you.

"I permit no woman to teach or have authority over men; she is to keep silent." Timothy 2:11

Please feel free to say this to my girlfriend. She will kick your butt.

"Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery." (Luke 16:18)

Ooookay, so no church should ever marry people who have already been married if this is the rule. And anyone who remarries is committing adultery. Nice.

I could go on. The Bible is a book of guidelines, an archaic set of guidelines. Stop hiding your fears behind ignorance.
0bstreperous - 3/6/2013, 12:53 AM
Any institution-- whether it is marriage , the catholic church , ancient greece or penn state -- that forgoes relations with women to pusue those with children results in pedophilia.

Fact
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