Uh...

Quoting from this interview with Dan Didio:

In addition to Batwoman, Apollo and Midnighter, you’re also introducing a female bisexual African American superhero in Voodoo. Was it a conscious decision to introduce characters from across the LGBT spectrum?

Yes. What we really wanted to do was show the diversity of our audience across the line of our books. Right now we have such a wide fan base and we wanted to create characters and stories that really reflected [that] fan base.

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Gay League has posed the question of whether Voodoo was previously bisexual, but I'm asking whether they mean Priss at all. Because screw who she screws, since when is she African-American? That and the use of the word "introducing" makes me hope they're introducing a new character as part of Voodoo's support cast.

people are talkin'

“We should tell Simon before he finds out,” Blair whispered as they walked down the hall.

Jim darted a glance around him. “I hate to break it to you, Chief, but everybody knows by now.”

Blair rolled his eyes; he’d spent half the afternoon trailing after Jim and keeping his mouth tightly shut, and the role of faithful spaniel was starting to grate on him. “Jim, we weren’t gone for more than two hours. There’s no way – ”

Jim sighed. “You’ve spent way too long hanging around cops not to have figured out – ”

“Hey, lovebirds,” Rafe cooed as he went past them, waving a hand.

“ – what gossiping sons of bitches they are,” Jim finished.

-excerpt from Something To Talk About by larmadeuse, which always makes me laugh, mainly because it's a) so true, b) so spot-on with the character voices.

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