Gay Batman Upsets DC Comics

The Dark Knight has been having a strange old year.

Firstly, he wakes up one blockbuster-shaped day to find that Memento director Christopher Nolan has only gone and revived his franchise - pulling in Christian Bale (DVDs), Gary Oldman (DVDs) and Liam Neeson (DVDs)  and moulding the most intelligent slice of popcorn entertainment in years.

Things were looking peachy. And then?

Then he gets caught hugging and kissing Robin.

Well, okay. Not quite.

What actually happened is that New-York-based artist Mark Chamberlain chose to exhibit a series of watercolours which show Bruce Wayne - and his chirpy little sidekick - to be a couple of fully fledged Friends Of Dorothy. That is to say: the pictures portray the pair in a homosexual superhero tryst - ‘homoheroaulity,’ if you will.

Not that hecklerspray has any issue with the whole thing. If Batman is so good as to repeatedly save Gotham City from the clutches of evil, then who could deny him the chance to release those secret passions of his every now and then? Even though Robin is probably a bit young for that sort of malarkey.

Yet - stop! Listen! What’s that rumbling over the horizon? Why, it’s the Complainotron 3000 - fully equipped with solicitor-lined tyretracks and legally-threatening missiles - and it’s being driven by the comic-creating folks at D.C. The people who own the rights to Batman, no less.

They have ordered the Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts Gallery - the cheeky scamps responsible for displaying the images - to immediately remove the pictures or to face legal action. D.C Comics have also told Ms. Cullen to ‘hand over any unsold work’. Further afield, creatively-minded website Artnet was also told to drop any of the offending images from its pages pronto.

What with D.C’s sudden - and utterly humourless - streak of paranoia, don’t be surprised if they launch a series of comics which attempt to reaffirm the sheer unarguable blokey straightness of their characters … a group of stories in which Batman, Superman, Spiderman and all their superhero buddies go out, drink eleven pints of lager, beat each other up at a rugby match and then go and fuck some ladies. Whilst swearing and everything.

Oh well. Not to worry.

hecklerspray always preferred Preacher, to be honest.

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