Last year the company announced that Alan Scott, Green Lantern, was gay. DC, owned by Warner Bros, has been making attempts to include LGBT characters in its superhero universe recently.
Petition website has started a petition calling for DC to drop Card.ĭale Lazarov, a gay comic writer, said he has known Orson Scott Card to be a raging homophobe since the early 90s, adding that he would not buy or read his work.ĭC declined to comment on the controversy. He said hiring Card would be an embarrassment to DC. A film of Ender's Game, co-produced by Card and starring Harrison Ford, is set to be released in November.Īctor Michael Hartney, who describes himself as 'as big a Superman fan as you'll ever meet', has written to DC voicing his concerns about Card.
