DC Ends ‘Pink Hood’ Comedian After Author’s Charlie Kirk Feedback

DC Comics canceled its new, mature-rated Red Hood comedian simply hours after it launched on September 10 as a result of its author made feedback concerning the assassination of right-wing activist and Turning Level USA creator Charlie Kirk at Utah College.

Pink Hood author Gretchen Felker-Martin made comments and joked on social media about Kirk’s dying—which occurred on the identical day because the comedian’s launch.

Pink Hood, which Felker-Martin was creating together with artist Jeff Spokes, will discontinue after its first run. Current orders for the subsequent two points have been cancelled, and retailers can be credited for any first situation copies, no matter whether or not they’ve been bought.

In a statement to Popverse, DC stated it locations “the best worth on our creators and group and affirm the precise to peaceable, particular person expression of private viewpoints. Posts or public feedback that may be seen as selling hostility or violence are inconsistent with DC’s requirements of conduct.”

Felker-Martin is a trans lady, and through his lifetime, Kirk made quite a few anti-trans feedback, together with in the moments earlier than the capturing. Felker-Martin is just not the one media determine to have confronted penalties on account of feedback made after Kirk’s dying: MSNBC fired its anchor Matt Dowd for remarking that “hateful ideas result in hateful phrases, which then result in hateful actions. […] You possibly can’t cease with these form of terrible ideas you could have after which saying these terrible phrases and never count on terrible actions to happen. And that’s the unlucky setting we’re in.”

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