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Omaha Steve

(106,952 posts)
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:28 AM Yesterday

DC cancels comic book series after writer posts about Charlie Kirk's death on social media

Source: CNN

11 HR ago

By Dan Heching

DC Comics has canceled the just-released “Red Hood” comic book series after author Gretchen Felker-Martin made comments about Charlie Kirk’s death on social media.

Kirk, a conservative activist and campaigner for President Donald Trump, was shot and killed Wednesday at a speaking event at a university in Utah.

In since-deleted posts captured in screengrabs shared by other social media users, Felker-Martin allegedly wrote on social media after news of Kirk’s death: “Hope the bullet’s OK.”

Felker-Martin, who identifies as transgender, also referred to Kirk as a “Nazi b*tch.”


"Red Hood" by writer Gretchen Felker-Martin and artist Jeff Spokes.
DC Comics


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/entertainment/dc-comics-red-hood-charlie-kirk

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DC cancels comic book series after writer posts about Charlie Kirk's death on social media (Original Post) Omaha Steve Yesterday OP
There will be other offers.................. Lovie777 Yesterday #1
Similar things happened during the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s Deminpenn Yesterday #2
I was close enough in age not to experience it but to hear it talked about alot in the mid 60's electric_blue68 1 hr ago #9
I also saw John Henry Faulk's Hate on Trial. ananda 44 min ago #10
Clay Risen's book "Red Scare" is a great read for Deminpenn 20 min ago #12
But it's ok to publish a comic book that says "not out of bullets" yardwork Yesterday #3
I thought conservatives didn't like cancel culture. badhair77 Yesterday #4
So DC comics can't recognize an evil character? travelingthrulife Yesterday #5
So many latent fascists in the USA Blues Heron Yesterday #6
I read this over on BlueSky and it seems Delphinus Yesterday #7
Another biz on the do not buy list Nigrum Cattus Yesterday #8
"."..and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel." Blue Full Moon 35 min ago #11

Deminpenn

(16,984 posts)
2. Similar things happened during the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 08:57 AM
Yesterday

All one needed to have happened is an inference that you were a communist or had friends that were members of the communist party or just happened to have an unwitting interaction with someone who was thought to be a communist. You were out of a job, blacklisted, shunned by friends and family.

electric_blue68

(23,789 posts)
9. I was close enough in age not to experience it but to hear it talked about alot in the mid 60's
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 05:50 PM
1 hr ago

Deminpenn

(16,984 posts)
12. Clay Risen's book "Red Scare" is a great read for
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 06:50 PM
20 min ago

context as is James Shapiro's "The Playbook".

travelingthrulife

(3,209 posts)
5. So DC comics can't recognize an evil character?
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 09:16 AM
Yesterday

There was nothing good or decent about Charlie Kirk. He said himself that in the fight to protect gun rights, some deaths are acceptable.

Delphinus

(12,439 posts)
7. I read this over on BlueSky and it seems
Fri Sep 12, 2025, 09:25 AM
Yesterday

appropriate here:

Everyone seems allergic to the word, but Charlie Kirk was not an activist, he was a propagandist. Turning Point was a meme factory backed by a billionaire designed to steer kids towards Christian Nationalism. He didn’t advocate for policy; he spun narratives to change beliefs. Propaganda.

C. Robert Cargill (@crobertcargill.bsky.social) 2025-09-11T16:55:20.620Z
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