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Star Trek<\/em>‘s George Takei<\/strong> will be seen in a forthcoming issue of Archie Comics<\/em>.<\/p>\n Takei will be seen as himself in issue #6 of Archie Comics’ Kevin Keller<\/em> comic.<\/p>\n “With Archie Comics<\/em>, it\u2019s a fun way and a natural way and an ideal way of advocating happily,” said Takei.<\/p>\n Archie Comics<\/em>‘ Jon Goldwater<\/strong> (co-chief executive officer) and Writer\/Artist Dan Parent<\/strong> met Takei at a convention, and asked the actor about appearing in the Kevin Keller<\/em> comic. “I flipped when he agreed,” said Goldwater, a “huge Star Trek fan.” “Sulu was always my favorite character, so I said do whatever it takes to get him in the comic.”<\/p>\n “I remember as a preteen and a teenager, I used to read Archie Comics<\/em>,\u201d said Takei. “I was so flattered.”<\/p>\n “I’ve always been an advocate,” said Takei. I” grew up in two U.S. internment camps. I was too young to understand that at the time. As a teenager I couldn\u2019t reconcile what I was reading in my civics books with my boyhood.”<\/p>\n Kevin Keller<\/em> #6 goes on sale tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Star Trek‘s George Takei will be seen in a forthcoming issue of Archie Comics. Takei…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2971],"tags":[5135,2596,5138,2415],"class_list":["post-21797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-magazine","tag-archie-comics","tag-comic","tag-kevin-keller","tag-takei"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a> Magazine<\/a>","tag_info":"Magazine","comment_count":"3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21806,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21797\/revisions\/21806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/george-takei-archie_lea_s160x246.jpg\" "\\"george-takei-archie_lea_s160x246\\"")
Kevin Keller<\/em> is a series of comics about fictional Riverdale’s only gay teenager, and Takei agreed to have a cartoon character of himself in the comic to send a message to young fans, that they can “aspire to be what they want to be no matter who they are.”<\/p>\n