Conservatives always go on and on about "the marketplace of ideas". Well, the marketplace of ideas has found Card's ideas less than worthy. Perhaps he'll come up with some better ones. Perhaps not.

Good analysis of the overall issue here: http://www.salon.com/2013/03/07/end_game_f…

@Number Six: That piece is great. Thanks for the link.

DC, readers and the comics biz community are free to do whatever they like, and they apparently have here. But what do his views have to do with whether he can write a good comic script? Jonathan Richman is a total asshole, but I still love my Modern Lovers albums. John Cusack is a notable dick, but how can you never watch Better off Dead again?

If what he wrote was horribly bigoted and inappropriate for a Superman comic, THEN get upset. Or at least get upset at him in the fora where he is making his bigotry known. What it has to do, on principle, with making art I have no idea.

Torridjoe- I agree. Boyz In The Hood is still enjoyable to me, even though it was filmed when Ice Cube was firmly in the "I hate Whites and Koreans" phase of his career

@torridjoe - Well, because I don't want to give a person like that any of my money. That's all it boils down to.

Then don't

TJ, it's way beyond just being a dick and you know it. Card is a leader of the National Organization for Marriage (the "There's a storm a-comin'" idiots), writes frequent anti-gay screeds--including advocating for homosexuality to be outlawed, etc.

Some day in the not-to-distant future, the ideals you hold now that pass for progressive will be considered the exact opposite by a younger generation. It's happened over and over again as long as society has existed. Keep that in mind when you're carrying your pitchforks the next time one of these issues arises.

RE: Chuck: Do you think that segregation and anti-miscegenation are going to make a comeback too? You don't seem to understand what progress is.