Transgender DC Comics writer Gretchen Felker-Martin says he has “no regrets” for posting hateful comments about murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
DC Comics immediately cancelled Felker-Martin’s Red Hood comic book series — which hit magazine stands on the same day Kirk was assassinated — when the writer posted his comments celebrating Kirk’s death.
But now, days after being fired, Felker-Martin is shrugging off the unceremonious end to the comic series and saying he is not the least apologetic over his comments.
“I had no regrets for what I said about [Kirk]. [Kirk’s murder] just didn’t strike me as an especially hot flashpoint. This is such a loathsome person. Everyone on the entire internet is talking about how pleasant it is that he got his,” Felker-Martin told Comics Journal.
“I saw that he had died in the middle of spreading more of the bigotry that he spent his every waking moment promulgating, and in a way that he had advocated for others to die, and felt nothing but contempt for his life,” Felker-Martin added. “I mean, this is a man who I’ve watched for years go on television and on enormous stages and convention halls and say that me and everyone like me should be stoned to death.”
Felker-Martin, of course, is lying. Charlie Kirk never, ever said gays should be stoned to death.
Regardless, the writer is unapologetic for his several social media messages posted online in the hours after Kirk’s murder. In one comment, Felker-Martin wrote, “Thoughts and prayers you Nazi bitch.” And in another, said, “Hope the bullet’s okay after touching Charlie Kirk.”
DC Comics immediately cancelled the rest of the Red Hood series despite that only its first issue had yet been released.
The publisher also released a statement on the firing, saying, “At DC Comics, we place the highest value on our creators and community and affirm the right to peaceful, individual expression of personal viewpoints. Posts or public comments that can be viewed as promoting hostility or violence are inconsistent with DC’s standards of conduct.”
The wild-eyed, extremist writer, though, makes it a habit of posting radical messages on social media. Among some of his more unseemly comments, Felker-Martin praised Osama bin Laden’s felling of the World Trade Center, has called Israel a “fascist” nation, and praised Hamas for killing Jews in the October 7 massacre. Even the far, far-left social media outlet BlueSky has previously suspended Felker-Martin’s account after the writer called for violence against Harry Potter scribe J. K. Rowling.
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