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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 517334" data-attributes="member: 8704">Link to the Marvel page on the Rawhide Kid<a href="http://www.marvel.com/comics/onsale/onsale.htm?id=698" target="_blank">http://www.marvel.com/comics/onsale/onsale.htm?id=698</a>I'll quote Marvel here to illustrate my point. "THE STORY: Get ready to slap leather! That loveable red-headed scamp is back! And no one handles a hot rod like the Rawhide Kid!" It really doesn't sound like a very progressive or positive view of a minority, it sounds like a humorous parity or a stereotype. If Marvel wanted to do a progressive piece on a minority they wouldn't of used it to grab media attention they would of just put it out, by all outward appearances they are making the fact that the character is gay the defining factor of the character, if that is not the case then they are going about their advertising all wrong.Yes I only got the opinion of one gay male, but I wasn't trying to take a official pole I was presenting the opinion of a friend who happens to be gay. It just also happens that he is politically concerned and active in the cause of gay rights but that wasn't my point at all. It was supposed to be sort of tongue in cheek not serious, to get serious I would say this is a horrible idea to try to boost sales and will either fail because it is being advertised to be a humorous stereotype or it will fail because it actually is a stereotype piece that will be found to be offensive by a minority. I thing they are going from the standpoint that any publicity is good publicity and that maybe  a controversy will sell the comic, which suggest that they think the comic wouldn't sell on it's own merits.</blockquote>

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