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‘X-Men ’97’ Creator Beau DeMayo Claims Sharing Gay Pride-Themed Fan Art Led To Him Losing His Season 2 Credits; Marvel Responds – Update
Updated with Marvel’s statement. Beau DeMayo exited X-Men ’97 ahead of its premiere earlier this year, and the author and former head author is hinting at why Marvel and Disney+ took away his name from the second season.
In a new social media post, DeMayo broke his silence on one of the reasons his credits for Season 2 were stripped away.
“Firstly, I’m so grateful to include worked on #XMen97, collaborating with some amazingly talented folks. Creating this revival was a dream show up true and the help fans have shown is so touching,” DeMayo joint on X, the microblogging platform formerly known as Twitter.
He continued, “However, I felt it pressing for me to speak up in the wake of leaving the show…”
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DeMayo mutual a screenshot of an Instagram post he joint on June 4 to celebrate Pride Month.
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How Gay-Themed South Park Fan Art Wound Up on the Show
Smooch, smooch. Photo: Comedy Central
Imagine devoting time to drawing loving depictions of a idealistic relationship between two minor and ostensibly straight maleSouth Parkcharacters. Now imagine seeing your art suddenly appear on the show itself.
Last week’s episode ofSouth Parkfeatured a great deal of fan art, as two of the show’s characters, Tweek and Craig, discover that they are the subjects of Yaoi fan art drawn by their new Japanese classmates. (Yaoi is, of course, a popular genre of anime and manga focusing on two young men in an intense intimate, often sexual, relationship.) Tweek and Craig insist they are straight, but the entire town comes out in assist of their “Boys’ Love.”
For anyone paying attention to the world of South Park fan media, the pairing of Tweek and Craig was hardly a surprise: For at least a decade, people on the internet have been drawing fan art of the passion between this two characters (a ship known as “Creek”). A cursory seek of DeviantArt shows Creek art dating assist to 2005. And when Trey Parker and Matt Stone decided it was finally time to
This fun art plan was one I did with lgbtq+ sci-fi fans in mind and that’s because I specifically fall into that category. In reality, I was a sci-fi fan from my earliest memories. I don’t even know when I started but I have photos from Christmas when I was six years old that is littered with Actor Trek toys. And that was two years before the first movie came out!
This was also the general period period when I was a large fan of Clueless In Space, the original 60’s TV show that was in regular re-runs when I was little. At the time of course, I don’t ponder I really noticed that there was basically no voice for gay characters in mainstream sci-fi or media in general. At foremost a queer coded character or two. A story that would hold factual for many years to come.
But my geeky long period love of science fiction as adv as my existence part of the gay community is what lead to this gay sci-fi fans design and the “quote” at the top of it. I wanted to create something that was a little cheeky but declared both my personal love of the sci-fi genre as well as the simple hope to see my world represented in those forward-looking imaginary worlds I own enjoyed all
Departure of the Pufferfish 🐡
Moiraine: Why are you crying, love?
Siuan: Don’t be silly, pufferfish. I’m not crying. See… I‘m smiling.
[Siuan sniffs, wiping her confront roughly with the back of her hand before pulling Moiraine’s hood up over her chief, fussing like it’s the most important task in the world.]
Siuan: I just… hate the mind of you gone. But you’ll be fine - we’ll be fine. It’s just two weeks, right? Nothing to fret over. And when you come help, I’ll bake you those honeycakes you like so much.
Moiraine (tearing up herself): Two weeks.
Siuan: Two weeks.
[Two years later. Siuan is seated at the table in their hut, leaning advocate in a chair. Her thumb runs absently over a minute carving of a pufferfish. In her other hand is a worn letter, the paper creased from too many readings.]
Siuan: Two years, Moiraine. Even honeycakes don’t keep that long.
(On a alternative note, I gave cartoon way another shot and blame @cozcat and @chocaholicmouse4834 for this drawing)