Di Another Day

I just heard on CNN, that a publisher plans on coming out with a comic book with the former Princess Diana as the main character.

The comic will be along the lines of the X-Men series.


That's pretty damned tasteless IMHO.

Too soon for your tastes? What's the proper passage of time before a Brit Royal can become superhero, anyway?

Charles has been a comic book character for decades.

Lancecastor said:

Too soon for your tastes? What's the proper passage of time before a Brit Royal can become superhero, anyway?

Charles has been a comic book character for decades.

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He's not dead, though
Though he appears to be

How sickening.

HeavyStick said:

I just heard on CNN, that a publisher plans on coming out with a comic book with the former Princess Diana as the main character.

The comic will be along the lines of the X-Men series.


That's pretty damned tasteless IMHO.

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It won't be tasteless if they make Mother Teresa as her body guard.

Lancecastor said:

Too soon for your tastes? What's the proper passage of time before a Brit Royal can become superhero, anyway?

Charles has been a comic book character for decades.

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IMO, it's just tasteless period.

With what she has done for children worldwide I don't see any humor in it.

Is she worthy of Superhero status? Yes

Hopefully the series will have some dignity and respect for her.

It's a stomach turner

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,984691,00.html

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Princess Diana, superhero

Comic book writer Peter Milligan explains why the Princess of Wales is perfect mutant material

Wednesday June 25, 2003


Spider-man and Princess Dian as seen in X-Statix, published by Marvel

I first became aware of Princess Diana's strange, mutant powers on the day of her death.
Speaking as a comic book writer, these powers were nothing compared to the flying, teleporting, lethally oscillating guys I usually deal with, but they were interesting all the same.

I was in my local pub in Muswell Hill, north London, with a mate called Eamonn, soon after Diana died. We raised a glass to her and, I'm afraid, proceeded to crack a string of sick, black jokes about what had happened. Maybe it was just the sort of thing you do when something terrible has happened: a way of warding off demons and bad luck.

However, I noticed that our dark humour had outraged some of the other people in the pub. It wasn't just red-faced Daily Mail readers, either.

A few Irish lads, after tutting and muttering about our banter, eventually decided they had had enough and stormed out. A young black guy found it too much to take, and left. Clearly, Diana exerted a strange, mysterious power from beyond the grave.

Years later, I was writing, among other things, a successful, groundbreaking comic book called X-Force, which I mutated into one called X-Statix.

Its characters have crazy mutant powers, but these powers are really vehicles for exploring our celebrity and fame-obsessed society.

The New York Times called it "a witty blast of media criticism disguised as a garish spin-off of the X-Men". Entertainment Weekly described it as a "cogent, savage deconstruction of celebrity culture in the guise of an X-Men spin-off".

My mutants all have agents, negotiate fees for image rights, open megastores and live the dream. People die in my comic. We even have a character called Dead Girl.

So I thought it was time we had a real dead girl in the team, and, clearly, Diana was made for X-Statix: someone famous for being famous. In the world of the X-Men, the mutants are feared and hated. In X-Statix, they have turned this around and made themselves stars - glamorous, rich and powerful. That seems, to me, to be pretty much what Diana did inside the royal family.

Number one in this storyline, called Di Another Day (I know - it's just the kind of juvenile pun that Eamonn and I were coming up with on the day she died) has just hit the streets, so we're only just gauging reaction.

The Daily Mail's anger was, I suppose, predictable, although I suspect that the Mail's readers are not our target audience.

I was amused to read a source from the palace saying that it was "appalling". I presumed that they all hated and feared Diana, and breathed a collective, establishment-sized sigh of relief when she died.

If any of them actually reads all five episodes of Di Another Day, they will see that Diana comes out of it a lot better than the British establishment.

Indeed, a couple of old palace eminence grise types arrange for this resurrected mutant zombie to be killed. "And this time, let's do it properly," one of them says.

Being one of a small but influential bunch of British writers working in the very American world of comics and superheroes, it is nice to be able to inject something peculiarly British into the comic melting pot. In a sense, we're doing a public service, helping to drag some Americans out of their insularity.

In fact, I'd really like to do a story where David Beckham joins X-Statix. He's the perfect example of some whose powers - the ability to boot a ball around - have been dwarfed by his celebrity status.

I'd like to have him run around in a spandex superhero costume, become a homoerotic pin-up, get his nose busted in a fight with the Hulk and, as a result, have millions wiped off his "share price".

Although, somehow, I don't think I'll get that one past the lawyers at Marvel Comics.

Re: It's a stomach turner

just pet said:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,984691,00.html

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TY for the link

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HeavyStick said:

TY for the link

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You're welcome
I had to find it
It was too disgusting to believe without proof

Ugh. Some people will do anything for a buck. I feel bad for her sons. I might have to go and comfort Prince William...

Broken*Star said:

Ugh. Some people will do anything for a buck. I feel bad for her sons. I might have to go and comfort Prince William...

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You're a cutie
I think you'd be good for him

HeavyStick said:

Is she worthy of Superhero status? Yes

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She had a SuperRack, that's for sure.

Lancecastor said:

She had a SuperRack, that's for sure.

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You do this on purpose, don't you

just pet said:

You do this on purpose, don't you

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Do you have any idea how hard it is to get any compromising photos of Her?

Her rack was average at best....and her beak was out of wack........She did great things , yes indeed....but everyone is fair game though..........

HeavyStick said:

I just heard on CNN, that a publisher plans on coming out with a comic book with the former Princess Diana as the main character.

The comic will be along the lines of the X-Men series.


That's pretty damned tasteless IMHO.

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I agree if the story is true.

just pet said:

You're a cutie
I think you'd be good for him

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Can you write a letter to his grandmum telling her that? So I can get the hook ups.

loveyamon said:

Her rack was average at best....and her beak was out of wack........She did great things , yes indeed....but everyone is fair game though..........

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I rather like her beak.

Broken*Star said:

Can you write a letter to his grandmum telling her that? So I can get the hook ups.

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My pleasure
You think she has that much pull?

Lancecastor said:

I rather like her beak.

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That pic looks disturbingly like a color version of PC,s strangelove AV............

just pet said:

My pleasure
You think she has that much pull?

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If I get in good with her, there maybe a crown in my future.

Broken*Star said:

If I get in good with her, there maybe a crown in my future.

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Will I get an invite to the Palace?

just pet said:

Will I get an invite to the Palace?

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Of course...right after I do some redecorating. I think some leapord print curtains...a few beanbag chairs...and a jacuzzi in the reception hall out to do the trick.