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    Perhaps it’s because comics are still considered juvenile reading matter in some quarters that the Daily Mail feels the need to ponder whether Batman is gay, but it’s like it’s never heard of Frederic Wertham, the psychologist whose 1950s book Seduction of the Innocent prompted Nazi-style comic burnings by petrified parents after its observations along the line of: “Only someone ignorant of the fundamentals of psychiatry and of the psychopathology of sex can fail to realise a subtle atmosphere of homoeroticism which pervades the adventures of the mature Batman and his young friend Robin.

    Gay superheroes: Holy cow! Why is everyone in a hurry to out Batman?

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    garfieldminusgarfield: For more depressing stuff try G-G the book! From our G2 team’s pick of the top 10 funniest Tumblrs 8. The clue’s in the name here. Garfield Minus Garfield strips the cat out of the comic strip, leaving nothing but three panels of a lonely Jon Arbuckle. In the words of the site’s creator Dan Walsh, “It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.” Rarely laugh-out-loud funny, but there’s something inherently comic about a recurring cartoon-cat-shaped lacuna. Even Garfield’s original creator is a fan.

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    For more depressing stuff try G-G the book!

    From our G2 team’s pick of the top 10 funniest Tumblrs

    8. The clue’s in the name here. Garfield Minus Garfield strips the cat out of the comic strip, leaving nothing but three panels of a lonely Jon Arbuckle. In the words of the site’s creator Dan Walsh, “It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.” Rarely laugh-out-loud funny, but there’s something inherently comic about a recurring cartoon-cat-shaped lacuna. Even Garfield’s original creator is a fan.

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    Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 9. Photograph: Dark Horse Comics Buffy’s choice: Joss Whedon gets political (Spoiler alert warning at this link for those who don’t know what happens in season 9) The new issue of the Buffy comics, published on Thursday in the US, sees the Chosen One taking some time off from staking vampires through the heart to deal with what publisher Dark Horse called “a rather personal problem”. Season nine continues, after issue five’s cliffhanger revelation that the Slayer was pregnant, with Buffy deciding what to do about the unwanted pregnancy – the result of a drunken night at a party.

    Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 9. Photograph: Dark Horse Comics

    Buffy’s choice: Joss Whedon gets political

    (Spoiler alert warning at this link for those who don’t know what happens in season 9)

    The new issue of the Buffy comics, published on Thursday in the US, sees the Chosen One taking some time off from staking vampires through the heart to deal with what publisher Dark Horse called “a rather personal problem”. Season nine continues, after issue five’s cliffhanger revelation that the Slayer was pregnant, with Buffy deciding what to do about the unwanted pregnancy – the result of a drunken night at a party.

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