Continuing its walk down the ultra woke path, Archie Comics is now announcing the introduction of a new transgender character.
In an upcoming issue of its offshoot line, Archie Horror, the company is set to introduce a brand new \u201ctransgender woman\u201d character named Danni Molloy, according to an exclusive sneak peek published by Gizmodo.
While the gender angle is new, the Molloy character itself is not exactly new. The character was first introduced in the 1980s and was portrayed as a sometimes girlfriend to Riverdale\u2019s resident genius, Dilton Doiley. But now, for issue #1 of Archie Horror\u2019s new comic, Chilling Adventures Presents: Strange Science, Malloy will be retconned as a \u201ctransgender woman.\u201d
The entire purpose of this one-off comic book, which is set for release in August, is to erase Molloy as a woman and recreate the character as a man who now identifies as a female.
Not mentioned in the advanced gushing over the book is whether scientist character Dilton Doiley will now be portrayed as gay or if he was duped by Molloy since the character has dated Molloy in past issues of the Archie series.
\u201cI\u2019ve been wanting to make this happen for a long time, and it\u2019s really cool to see it finally come to fruition. I never wanted Danni\u2019s trans identity to be gimmicky, or for her to feel like she was only created to be trans. So, I\u2019d like to apologize for sneaking her over the line like this,\u201d the writer of Archie Horror\u2019s series Jinx\u2019s Grim Fairy Tales, Magdalene Visaggio, told Gizmodo.
\u201cI wanted you to have a chance to fall in love with her for who she is, not what she is. I\u2019m honored I got to make it happen, and I\u2019m grateful to Archie for never, not even once, pushing back on my insistence on making their books a little bit more queer,\u201d Visaggio added.
Archie Comics senior director of editorial Jamie L. Rotante insisted that the new book is \u201cone of, if not the, most important one-shots we\u2019ve released.\u201d
\u201cThat\u2019s all thanks to writer Magdalene Visaggio, who had the idea to have Danni Malloy tell her own story about her transition. We just needed to figure out the best way to make it fit, and a callback to her character\u2019s classic origins mixed with the new horror surroundings she\u2019s been re-introduced in just made the most sense,\u201d Rotante gushed.
Retrofitting Molloy to erase her womanhood in favor of transgenderism is far from the first woke story Archie has indulged.
Back in 2010, America\u2019s favorite teenagers introduced a gay character in a story entitled, \u201cIsn\u2019t It Bromantic,\u201d because, in the company\u2019s reckoning at the time, \u201cRiverdale has to reflect the diversity of the world today.\u201d
The next year, the comic series held a same-sex wedding ceremony in which the character \u201cKevin\u201d married his boyfriend.
\u201cWe all want to be part of family and community \u2014 that\u2019s what marriage is about,\u201d Kevin said in the comic. \u201cGay people share the same dreams.\u201d
The gay characters went on in other issues, even being shown kissing later on.
Then, by 2014, a book featuring an adult Archie portrayed the character being shot and killed while trying to \u201cprotect a gay friend\u201d from haters. In this series, the older Archie actually dies, though the death did not alter any of the series that still featured Archie as a teenager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n