It was just 20 short days ago when I published a piece discussing an upcoming comic called Second Coming. The book was receiving some backlash amongst certain news outlets and the religious right. Well, looks as though DC caved to the pressure as the creators just announced that the book is now cancelled.
Before I jump into the details of that, let me give a brief summary of the solicitation for the book.
Witness the return of Jesus Christ, as He is sent on a most holy mission by God to learn what it takes to be the true messiah of mankind by becoming roommates with the world’s favorite savior: the all-powerful super hero Sun-Man, the Last Son of Krispex! But when Christ returns to Earth, he’s shocked to discover what has become of his gospel—and now, he aims to set the record straight.
The book was slated to arrive in shops to be put out under DC’s Vertigo line which is intended for mature audiences. It was slated to come out on March 6th. Now it’s up in limbo. The good news is that there seems to be no bad blood between the creator Mark Russell and DC. I guess Russell asked for the rights back and DC obliged. Russell has already aluded to the fact that we will see this book eventually. Most likely under a new Indy publisher.
This could actually work out better for them financially to be honest. Now that there is more buzz behind it, whenever it does get resolicited after it finds a new home...so would expect bigger numbers as far as the ordering goes.
Now we don’t exactly know why this happened or what it was initially caused by, but it just feels like DC caved and maybe didn’t want the negative press it was going to receive. At least they are being coolmand reverting the rights back to the creators so they can pursue this somewhere else.
What’s your thoughts?!? Mine is simple...don’t try to censor others work. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it. Fairly simple. There are plenty of people I disagree with for a plethora of reasons. I would never dream of trying to censor or bully someone into not doing their work. I simply wouldn’t listen to their show, or watch their movie, or read they book, etc.
Anyway,
If you’d like to see the initial piece I wrote about this and some of the comments, please check it out below.
https://steemit.com/art/@blewitt/controversyforsecondcoming-wyb2m5yl2o
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