Those looking forward to reading issues of trans writer Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Red Hood comic book series will be disappointed, as DC Comics has canceled the series after comments made by Felker-Martin on the social media platform Bluesky about Charlie Kirk’s death.
“Thoughts and prayers, you Nazi bitch,” she wrote in one post, via The Hollywood Reporter. “Hope the bullet’s okay after touching Charlie Kirk,” says Felker-Martin in another post.
The author has since deactivated their Bluesky account after the comments were made, but screenshots started circulating on social media after the shooting occurred, according to Them.
As a result of Felker-Martin’s comments, DC Comics delivered notices to retailers that they were canceling orders of Red Hood #2 and Red Hood #3 and would credit them for copies of Red Hood #1 via The Wrap.
“At DC Comics, we place the highest value on our creators and community and affirm the right to peaceful, individual expression of personal viewpoints,” says a DC Comics spokesperson, according to The Wrap. “Posts or public comments that can be viewed as promoting hostility or violence are inconsistent with DC’s standards of conduct.”
Felker-Martin maintains she has no regrets about what she said and doesn’t want to work with DC Comics in an interview with CBR.
“I said that I’ve listened to Charlie Kirk being an overt Nazi for years of my life, and I had no regrets for what I said about him,” says Felker-Martin, per CBR. “I have no desire to be part of any organization that wants to pretend that people like Charlie Kirk are decent human beings who deserve respect.”
Felker-Martin garnered recognition for her 2022 science fiction horror novel Manhunt, which appeared #1 in Vulture‘s list of “The Best Books of 2022,” and Roxane Gay selected it as one of the “25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature.” Then in 2024, her novel Cuckoo entered the USA Today best-seller list and was named as one of the “Best Horror Books of 2024 (So Far)” by Vulture.
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