Gay Dredd .....lol

[Toni Scandella]

I think it is disgusting that digital subscribers will have to burn their ipads and tablets in order to properly show homophobic outrage.

[Frank]

...and Wulf did like his cucumbers...

Where do you think he learned the Schicklgruber silencer technique? That sock was soaked in amyl nitrite.

[El Chivo]

Dredd sequel is confirmed, Urban replaced by Rylan from Big Brother in 'A-Cock-a-Lips War'

Also Wulf is clearly stated as being Johnny's 'norm' partner therefore in no way possibly a battyman.


Chi

[JayzusB.Christ]

Next they'll be telling us Judge Giant was black the whole time.

[Noisybast]

So my brother just sent me a scan of one of the tabloid stories.  He seems amused.

[pauljholden]

The facts are that gay is seen as effeminate by many people (not by me I may add) and that will probably never disappear.    So even the people like me (who don't view all gay males as effeminate) will have to put up with people making fun of the character.     That's the type of thing Dredd can do without.

It's all very well saying people should grow the fuck up and enter the 21st Century but as much as some people won't like to hear many people will always view gay men as a bit limp wristed.   And that won't change no matter how much you throw at them.      Making characters like Dredd gay won't do anything for gay rights..it'll just annoy many people who like the character.

If the perception that all gay people are effeminate is true then it's true because all presentations of gay people in media have been effeminate. Having known a flaming queen who could easily punch the lights out of anyone, and known straight people who have have a certain florid and less-than-macho-ness to them, I'd suggest that gay people, like straight people (and bi people, and all people) come in all sorts of varieties, and if media/comics/tv/etc have presented them as one type in the past then THATS been wrong. For my money, Dredd as a sexually repressed gay man looks and acts no different than Dredd as a sexually repressed straight man.

-pj

[Fatboydale]

After much thought , i think Cf and his other Jimps , should gay it up next time at a comic event .... even make a monty python types song up .... just to show his support for Gay Dredd ....

And to add to this thread , it makes no difference to me if Dredd is gay or not ..... I have a mate called gay mechanic dave ..... does not make him any less of a man or mechanic ... everyone to their own ...

Remember boy and girls it only a comic ....

[JOE SOAP]

Did PJ just surreptitiously come out?

[Steve Green]

Since Dredd often deals with stereotypes, it made me a little more nervous when "It's kind of a Village People deal turned up to 100" is mentioned by the writer...

It was a fine story, but it's not really much that hasn't been handled before in the prog, it's only that the media (and the unpleasant side of fandom) jumped on it.

We had the Glyph undergoing multiple gender change procedures, and Toy's unrequited lesbian crush on Halo Jones 30-odd years ago after all.

[Frank]

Not a good way of advertising Dredd to the world ... Just because someone doesn't want a character to be gay doesn't make them a homophobic bigot ... I know that most straight teenage boys and older men (probably the biggest readers of Dredd) wouldn't be too happy with a gay Dredd.   

He's okay, but other folk aren't. This is analogous to Mr Garrison from South Park's "I'm not gay. But Mr Hat is" line.

[flip-r mk2]

A thank you sketch for The Whitt 

filip

[The Adventurer]

A story where Dredd is stuck butt naked (except for the helmet 'nach) and still dispensing justice would actually be a riot.

[Noisybast]

In The Bath, Prog 626

[pauljholden]

Did PJ just surreptitiously come out?

I'm neither gay nor straight; I'm married.

-pj
(By which I mean I only have eyes for my wife... Obviously...)

[Pete Wells]

Ballad of Devil Angel - Prog 966.

My tuppence worth, the story certainly isn't worth the hype. Nothing to do with the subject matter, it was just clunky and not that exciting. The final line was appalling too. It reminded me of 90's Dredd quite a bit.