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Oprah Motivates, Batfleck Passes the Torch, Ted Bundy Has A Huge Following in Prison, Aqualad, Transformers, and, Yes, Marc Singer In ‘Beast Master’ Made Me Gay, and More: HOT LINKS

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BATFLECK’SOUT! Deadline is reporting that Ben Affleck is passing the torch. In an EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. is dating their next rendition of Batman for June 25, 2021. This is the one that Matt Reeves has been attached to as writer and director. Ben Affleck, we hear, will not be donning the Dark Knight’s tights after playing the Caped Crusader in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad and Justice League and that’s because this movie will focus on a younger Bruce Wayne.

Reeves boarded Batman in February 2017, taking over for Affleck who was originally set to direct off a script he wrote with DC’s Geoff Johns. Affleck, we understand has a busy plate: As Deadline exclusively broke he is starring in and producing the feature adaptation of Kate Alice Marshall‘s novel I Am Still Alive, which Universal won in a competitive bidding scenario. The two-time Oscar winner is also starring in the Warner Bros.’ Gavin O’Connor drama Torrance. Affleck worked hard on The Batman story, but knew he wasn’t the right one for this particular version. A search is underway for a new Dark Knight.

Excited for #TheBatman in Summer 2021 and to see @MattReevesLA vision come to life. t.co/GNgyJroMIO

— Ben Affleck (@BenAffleck) January 31, 2019

BREAKING If you are Black and live even near the vicinity of the polar vortex then you have the God’s permission to be ashy today says The Root in the funniest isht I’ve read all week.

MY HUSBAND’S ALMOST DEAD He’s on death row. Thanks to things like Dateline and the My Favorite Murder podcast, we’ve known America is here for true-crime stories and serial killers to scare the living daylights out of us when we’re on a stroll and needing to pass time before the dog poops. The true-crime nightmare-inducer du jour is Netflix’s Conversations With A Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. It’s a docuseries about Ted, a serial killer who confessed to 30 murders (and the actual number is likely higher); alas, this is America, and we can’t have nice things. People who have watched the docuseries are zeroing in on how “hot” Ted is, and Netflix would like them to cut it out.

CNN says people in 2019 are doing the same things the now-executed killer used to manipulate them into very unfortunate situations. Fine, Ted was a looker with dreamy blue eyes…and is also being portrayed by Zac Efron in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile. Hollywood is clearly on board with the thirst for Ted train because the trailer for that shows off Zac’s pecs and only glosses over him dragging a torso through the woods…..

Netflix has had enough of people on Twitter being like, “Yeah, he was LITERALLY the worst demon ever…but look at those cheek bones!” It finally slapped back at the thirsty hos on Twitter:

I’ve seen a lot of talk about Ted Bundy’s alleged hotness and would like to gently remind everyone that there are literally THOUSANDS of hot men on the service — almost all of whom are not convicted serial murderers

— Netflix US (@netflix) January 28, 2019

BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES Can GOOP fix Gwyneth’s hit and run?

REMEMBER LEGENDS OF ZELDA? Melissa McEwan does her own version of links!

Sexy Link by penelopps

#TODAYSMOTIVATION Sometimes you just need to hear Oprah say it.

YES GODDAMN IT I WANTED BEAST MASTER WHEN I WAS NINE I thought he could use his animal controlling powers on me so I had no agency–I hate Matthew Rettenmund–it’s like he knows me.

MEME WITH THE MOSTEST Young Justice’s Connor Kent (Superboy) and Tim Drake (Red Robin) have an awkward misinterpretation.

HOT GAY KISS OF THE WEEK

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— He & Him (@he_and_him) January 25, 2019

OUR COVER BOY Who draws comic-book covers: the legendary Phil Jimenez.

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The #BatmanWhoLaughs. After my #Penguin sketch from a couple weeks back, I’ve wanted to draw more #Batmanvillains — and this guy was top of my list. My morning drawing/sketch, enhanced on #ProcreateApp. (A little fill mistake gave#BWLaughs and his #Robin blackened teeth; I liked the effect so kept it here!). Shameless plug: The original, in-enhanced #pencil and #marker drawing is for sale along with some other great stuff at my new art dealer, @modernmythologycomicart ! They’re terrific guys and doing right by me. Check em out!

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After graduating from The School of Visual Arts in New York City, 21-year-old Jimenez was hired by DC Comics, the American publishing house and division of DC Entertainment, where Pozner was his boss and mentor reported Plus magazine. “He was an incredibly talented man,” Jimnez said of Pozner, whom he immediately admired.

Pozner wasn’t an easy boss, he had what Jimenez calls, “some very strong opinions about the way things should be done.”

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Another #tbt from my #Transformers days! #Jetfire #Hasbro colors by @evergreenfajardo

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By the time they’d met, Pozner (who had designed album covers for The Kinks and Jimi Hendrix before he moved to the comic world) had risen the ranks at DC from production designer (where he wrote the ’80s-era Aquaman miniseries) to group director of creative services. The artist’s well-known exacting standards shaped Jimenez’s artisitic style, and they did little to discourage Jimenez from developing a crush on his 37-year-old boss. “I’d hang out with him at work, in the offices, far later than I had any reason to,” Jimenez recalls. “I would buy clothes I couldn’t afford to impress him. And eventually, I mustered the nerve to ask him on a date.” 

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Another #tbt —My #Tempest entry from an old #SecretFiles (you can still see some of the power descriptors on the scan). Been feeling sentimental about this guy lately. Hope I get to draw him again someday #oldschool @dccomics

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But Pozner was hesitant to date someone who was both younger and HIV-negative. “He was 15 years older than I was,” Jimenez, now in his 40s, acknowledges. “And he had been my boss. [But] against his better judgment, he said yes. And it actually ended up being a really wonderful relationship.”

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Another #tbt —My #Tempest entry from an old #SecretFiles (you can still see some of the power descriptors on the scan). Been feeling sentimental about this guy lately. Hope I get to draw him again someday #oldschool @dccomics

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Oprah Motivates, Batfleck Passes the Torch, Storm’s Rocking the Mohawk Again, Ted Bundy Has A Huge Following in Prison, Aqualad, Transformers, and, Yes, Marc Singer In ‘Beast Master’ Made Me Gay, and More: HOT LINKS

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What Comics Are You Reading This Week? #ComicBookWednesday

What Comics Are You Reading This Week? #ComicBookWednesday

#NEWCOMICBOOKDAY Hurray it’s new comic day! As any good geek or nerd in the know is well aware Wednesday is a weekly holiday a pantheon of publishers bequeath on anticipatory fanboys and girls. Below we grabbed some excited fans and specialty shops Instagram posts from around the country and also review Heroes in Crisis number 5 that sees the return of the #NoHomo fan fave due Blue Beetle and Booster Gold: The Blue and the Gold.

FALL OUT COMICS DISPLAY Online home of Tallahassee’s Comic and Game Shop. “This weeks releases include amazing spider-man 14, doctor strange 10/400, age of x-man 1, action comics 1007, detective comics 997, heroes in crisis 5, rick and Morty vs dungeons and dragons 4, power rangers 35, fight club three 1, and many more! Come pick up your comics at #falloutcomics#falloutcomicstallahassee#newcomicbookday#newcomicwednesday#shoplocal#ihearttally”

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Hurray it’s new comic day! This weeks releases include amazing spider-man 14, doctor strange 10/400, age of x-man 1, action comics 1007, detective comics 997, heroes in crisis 5, rick and Morty vs dungeons and dragons 4, power rangers 35, fight club three 1, and many more! Come pick up your comics at #falloutcomics #falloutcomicstallahassee #newcomicbookday #newcomicwednesday #shoplocal #ihearttally

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WONDER WOMAN #63  gets the manga treatment by Japanese superstar Kamome Shirahama.

 When Themyscira and the remnants of Olympus fell, the Gods weren’t the only refugees to come to Earth. A small horde of mystical creatures have found their way here, and they’re determined to start new lives…but what happens when the people of our world are equally determined not to let them? Can Diana open their minds and show them that a centaur is more than half a person?

Kamome Shirahama is best known in the United States for her comics cover art at DC and Marvel, including such titles as Star Wars: Doctor Aphra, and Batgirl, and the Birds of Prey. Witch Hat Atelier is her first manga to be released in English.

THIRD EYE WIDE If you’re in southern California, Maryland visit Third Eye for some new reads.

PASADENA’S P Dot’s Comics & Collectibles top variant tuesday submission is this awesome cover for Red Hood and the Outlaws #26.

HEROES IN CRISIS is something new in comics and boldly tackles mass shootings and PTSD.

“Can I tell you a secret Goldie?” Harley Quinn says to Booster Gold, early on in the first of issue of Heroes In Crisis —  DC’s new company-wide crossover series — “You promise not to tell?” Harley continues seductively, “I hate pudding.”  Here, Quinn is referring to both the options on the dessert menu at the diner she and Gold find themselves in, and we assume her on again/off again boyfriend The Joker, for whom “puddin’ ” is her trademark term of endearment.

Turns out the duo — as unlikely a pair as you can find — have been secretly operating “the Sanctuary,” an ultra-secret hospital for superheroes who’ve been traumatized by crime-fighting and cosmic combat. And that’s just the tip of the house-sized mysteries  suggested in the the first issue of Heroes In Crisis. A mass-shooting massacre is at the center of C.I.A.-operative-turned-comics-writer Tom King’s story, where he poses the question: How does a superhero handle PTSD? 

King has proved his writing mettle with his still ongoing, award winning runs on both Batman and Mister Miracle. He continues to be able to oscillate between both the incredibly cosmic (Batman and the Justice League against a New God) and masterfully grounded stories (like Bruce Wayne serving on a jury attempting to convict the Batman of assault against Mr. Freeze).

In issue five of Crisis, King deftly maneuvers between humor and heavy emotion and brings us closer to an understanding of who the mastermind behind the moves is or are.

The term “crisis” is a storied one in DC lore, stemming back to the 1960s when the Justice Society of America (JSA) from Earth-2 (containing DC’s 1940s golden age characters) and the Justice League of America from Earth-1 (the JLA we know essentially know now) would team up against odds that only the two greatest superhero teams in the multiverse could combat. 

In the DC Universe (DCU), the term Crisis has become a brand that consistently brings the greatest crossovers year after year.

With Heroes, King takes that concept and does something truly original and cinematic. 

is something new in comics

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Parents of Transgender Children Call on Congress to Pass the Equality Act

Parents of Transgender Children Call on Congress to Pass the Equality Act

Today, HRC’s  Parents for Transgender Equality National Council, a group of the nation’s leading parent-advocates in the fight for transgender equality, met with members of Congress to discuss their families’ moving journeys and the urgent need for Congress to pass the Equality Act. The Equality Act is a comprehensive LGBTQ civil rights bill which is a priority for the U.S. House’s new pro-equality leadership and is expected to be re-introduced soon

U.S. Representative Joe Kennedy, III (D-MA), chair of the Congressional Transgender Equality Task Force, hosted the convening of parents of transgender and gender expansive young people. Representative Kennedy was joined by U.S. Representatives Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), Mark Takano (D-CA), Jennifer Wexton (D-VA), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Chris Pappas (D-NH) and Gil Cisneros (D-CA).

“For transgender young people, passing the Equality Act would be life-affirming and, in some cases, lifesaving,” said Jay Brown, Acting Senior Vice President, HRC Programs, Research & Training. “These parents’ children need and deserve clear protections from discrimination throughout daily life, from welcoming schools to inclusive health care. The unique stories and voices of these parents have already changed countless minds, and they will be critical in continuing to push equality forward alongside allies like Representative Kennedy and the Congressional Transgender Equality Task Force.”

“For two years, transgender children have fought daily battles against intolerance in their schools and their communities, while the adults tasked with protecting them at the highest levels of this Administration offer words of bigotry and hatred instead,” said U.S. Representative Joe Kennedy, III, chair of the Congressional Transgender Equality Task Force. “Listening to these parents today demonstrated once again that there is no force greater than a parent’s love and no force darker than a government that fails to see the humanity in her youngest citizens. We fight with those children and their parents because they should never doubt that they are heard and they are seen, and they should always know that they will never be erased.”

Washington D.C.-Parents For Transgender Equality Council

“Our families need the Equality Act to become law,” said Rachel Gonzales, a member of HRC’s Parents for Transgender Equality. “As residents of Texas, our family has experienced first hand the threat of both a hostile state government and cruel federal administration. Our state or zip code should not dictate whether our daughter is protected from discrimination.”

The Congressional Transgender Equality Task Force and the pro-equality members of Congress who attended the convening are on the frontlines of fighting for transgender youth, service members, patients and workers. Members in attendance who served in the previous Congress were all co-sponsors of the Equality Act.

The Equality Act was first introduced in July 2015. A recent study from PRRI found that seven in 10 Americans (71 percent) support laws like the Equality Act, which protect the LGBTQ community against discrimination in employment, public accommodations and housing. More than 130 major employers, with operations in all 50 states, have also joined HRC’s Business Coalition for the Equality Act, urging Congress to pass these crucial protections.

The meeting on Capitol Hill followed a two-day summit with HRC’s Parents for Transgender Equality National Council at HRC’s Washington, D.C., headquarters. Parents brainstormed strategies for change, discussed priorities and heard from HRC staff and leaders, including those working to expand inclusion in schools, child welfare and adoption agencies and health care facilities.

In conjunction with the summit, the HRC Foundation released a new guide for parents of non-binary, gender fluid and gender-expansive youth. The guide includes a helpful primer on terminology, resources for building inclusive communities and answers to frequently-asked questions from parents of gender expansive, non-binary and gender fluid youth.

A recent survey from HRC underscored the critical need for the new guide. HRC and researchers from the University of Connecticut found that less than a quarter of transgender and gender expansive youth feel like they can definitely be themselves at home and more than seventy percent of transgender and gender expansive youth reported hearing their families make negative comments about LGBTQ identities.

To read the new guide, click here. To learn more about HRC work on transgender equality, visit hrc.org/transgender.

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Kim Davis Must Pay the $225,000 in Legal Fees for the Gay Couples Who Sued Her, Say Governor’s Lawyers

Kim Davis Must Pay the $225,000 in Legal Fees for the Gay Couples Who Sued Her, Say Governor’s Lawyers

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Lawyers for Kentucky GOP Governor Matt Bevin say that former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis must pay the $225,000 in legal fees owed to the gay couples who sued her for refusing to issue marriage licenses because of her Christian-based opposition to same-sex marriage.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports: ‘Although Bevin, a Republican, publicly has praised Davis as “an inspiration … to the children of America,” his attorneys are taking a more critical tone in court briefs, blaming the ex-clerk for failing to do her job following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2015 decision legalizing gay marriage. A three-judge panel will hear arguments about the case’s expenses Thursday at the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. A district judge ruled in 2017 that the couples suing for marriage licenses clearly prevailed and that the state of Kentucky must pay their fees and costs.’

Bevin’s lawyers want the bill handed to Davis, and say she acted alone in denying the marriage licenses.

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Hate Crimes: What You Need to Know & How You Can Help

Hate Crimes: What You Need to Know & How You Can Help

The horrific attack on Jussie Smollett has captured the attention of the media, and the alarming reality is that these attacks are happening to people practically every day across this country. In fact, FBI hate crimes statistics released last year revealed a disturbing increase of 17 percent in reported hate crimes from the previous year.

A hate crime, also known as a bias-motivated crime, occurs when the perpetrator intentionally selects the victim because of a bias or prejudice. Each year, thousands of violent hate crimes occur. They affect not only the victims and their families, but the entire community or group of people that they target.

Most hate crimes are prosecuted at the state level, which is why state laws are so important. Unfortunately there are gaps in protections from state to state. Five states (Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Wyoming) have no laws addressing the scourge of hate crimes, and there is variation in the list of protected characteristics in states that do have enumerated hate crime laws. Only 19 states and the District of Columbia have laws that address hate or bias crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Eleven states have laws that address hate or bias crimes based on sexual orientation only. Learn more about the hate crimes laws in your state.

Last year, the nation marked 20 years since Matthew Shepard’s brutal murder. Just months before Matthew was murdered, James Byrd, Jr., a Black man, was beaten by a group of white supremacists, tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged three miles before dying. After their murders, both families became tireless advocates for a more inclusive federal hate crimes law. Their work led to the passage of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Action (HCPA) in 2009. This law made numerous gains at the federal level — but state hate crimes laws remain critically important because that’s where most crimes are prosecuted. Learn more about what the HCPA does and doesn’t do.

Many people do not realize that reporting hate crimes to the FBI is voluntary — meaning thousands of law enforcement agencies are not reporting these crimes to the FBI. As a result, these crimes are undercounted and we do not have accurate data. For example, the entire state of Mississippi reported only one hate crime in 2017 — that’s not because they have fewer hate crimes than most small and medium sized cities, it’s because they are not reported. In fact, according to a 2016 Associated Press study, nearly 17 percent of all city and county law enforcement agencies nationwide failed to report hate crimes data to the FBI in the prior six years.

In order to address this scourge of violence, HRC continues to fight for action in four key areas:

  1. Expanded hate crimes laws that explicitly include LGBTQ people and victims from marginalized communities
  2. More robust training, education, and resources for law enforcement on hate crimes investigating and reporting
  3. Mandatory reporting by local law enforcement of hate crimes to the FBI
  4. Greater awareness about the epidemic of hate violence and the communities most vulnerable to it.

The shocking attack on Jussie Smollett is, unfortunately, not an isolated incident. There is an alarming epidemic of hate violence in our country that disproportionately targets Black people, LGBTQ people, and religious minorities — and particularly those living at the intersections of multiple identities. If you or someone you know has been the victim of a hate crime, here are four things you should do:

  1. Get medical help, if necessary.
  2. Write down all of the details of the crime as soon as possible after the incident. Include the gender, age, height, race, weight, clothes and other distinguishing characteristics of the perpetrator(s). If any threats or biased comments were made (such as anti-LGBTQ or racial epithets), include them in the report.
  3. File reports. When filing a police report, be sure to get the responding officer’s name and badge number. Make sure the officer files an incident report form and assigns a case number. If a police report is not taken at the time of your report, go to the police station and ask for one. Always get your own copy, even of the preliminary report.
    If you believe the incident was bias-motivated, urge the officer to check the  “hate/bias-motivation” or “hate crime/incident” box on the police report.
  4. Reach out for support. If you feel comfortable and safe to do so, reach out to friends and family about the attack. You might also find comfort and healing in professional help from an LGBTQ-affirmative counselor or therapist. The FBI has resources to help victims of crime, and you can contact anti-violence support services, such as the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs.

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