DC cancels comic book series after writer posts about Charlie Kirk's death on social media

[Omaha Steve]

Source: CNN

11 HR ago

By Dan Heching

DC Comics has canceled the just-released “Red Hood” comic book series after author Gretchen Felker-Martin made comments about Charlie Kirk’s death on social media.

Kirk, a conservative activist and campaigner for President Donald Trump, was shot and killed Wednesday at a speaking event at a university in Utah.

In since-deleted posts captured in screengrabs shared by other social media users, Felker-Martin allegedly wrote on social media after news of Kirk’s death: “Hope the bullet’s OK.”

Felker-Martin, who identifies as transgender, also referred to Kirk as a “Nazi b*tch.”


"Red Hood" by writer Gretchen Felker-Martin and artist Jeff Spokes.
DC Comics


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/entertainment/dc-comics-red-hood-charlie-kirk

[Lovie777]

1. There will be other offers..................

[Deminpenn]

2. Similar things happened during the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s

All one needed to have happened is an inference that you were a communist or had friends that were members of the communist party or just happened to have an unwitting interaction with someone who was thought to be a communist. You were out of a job, blacklisted, shunned by friends and family.

[electric_blue68]

9. I was close enough in age not to experience it but to hear it talked about alot in the mid 60's

[ananda]

10. I also saw John Henry Faulk's Fearon Trial.

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Great film.

[Deminpenn]

12. Clay Risen's book "Red Scare" is a great read for

context as is James Shapiro's "The Playbook".

[ananda]

13. Yes, I studied the Frederick Lewis Allens book on the big red scare in college.

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It was something.

[electric_blue68]

15. I should see if any of my free streaming services have it

[ananda]

16. The stars are George C Scott and William Devane.

You might have to go to your library and get in on dvd.

[yardwork]

3. But it's ok to publish a comic book that says "not out of bullets"

Hypocrites.

[badhair77]

4. I thought conservatives didn't like cancel culture.

[travelingthrulife]

5. So DC comics can't recognize an evil character?

There was nothing good or decent about Charlie Kirk. He said himself that in the fight to protect gun rights, some deaths are acceptable.

[Blues Heron]

6. So many latent fascists in the USA

Free speech is dead anymore in this country.

[Delphinus]

7. I read this over on BlueSky and it seems

appropriate here:

Everyone seems allergic to the word, but Charlie Kirk was not an activist, he was a propagandist. Turning Point was a meme factory backed by a billionaire designed to steer kids towards Christian Nationalism. He didn’t advocate for policy; he spun narratives to change beliefs. Propaganda.

— C. Robert Cargill (@crobertcargill.bsky.social) 2025-09-11T16:55:20.620Z

[Nigrum Cattus]

8. Another biz on the do not buy list

[Blue Full Moon]

11. "."..and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel."

[50 Shades Of Blue]

14. No words.