World’s First Gay Superhero Is On His Way
Stan Lee, the creator of Spider-man, is planning to unleash the world’s first homosexual superhero in a new television programme. Lee has reportedly created a character called Thom Creed, a high-school basketball player who is forced to hide his sexuality as well as his superpowers. It is not known what kind of powers Creed will display…
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The television program will be based on the novel Hero by openly gay film producer Perry Moore. The main character, Thom Creed, has the power to heal people by laying his hands on them. In my opinion the novel is a little predictable, real comic fans might get annoyed with it’s golden-aged cheesiness, and Perry Moore makes the main character so self centered and stereotypically hyper masculine, it’s hard to relate to him. Either way, it’ll be interesting to see how it translates on television.