Article written for Paste Magazine on the successful introduction of Mortal Kombat's first openly gay character, Kung Jin.
Kung Jin’s Komplicated Koming Out
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Alex Ross, the legendary illustrator for Marvel and DC comics, has a new ‘Fantastic Four’ book out https://trib.al/19455i9
I’ve been lucky enough to be bumped up to first class a couple times recently and my main take away is that it’s not extremely luxurious, it’s just how a normal person should be treated. That’s it. For $3,000 they’ll give you a human sized chair and not be actively mean to you.
Ted Cruz just became the only republican on the Rules committee to vote against the Electoral Count Act, which puts guard rails in place to prevent future coup attempts.
Cruz led the charge in the Senate to overturn the last election for Donald Trump.