As the calls grow for DC Comics to drop Ender's Game author and outspoken gay-rights opponent Orson Scott Card from its digital-first Adventures of Superman, the first retailer has stepped forward to say he won't order the print edition of the new anthology.

"Zeus Comics will not be carrying the print edition of writer Orson Scott Card's Superman," Richard Neal, owner of the Dallas store, wrote this afternoon on his Facebook page. "Card sits on the board of the National Organization of Marriage which fights against marriage equality. His essays advocate the destruction of my relationship, that I am born of rape or abuse and that I am equated with pedophilia. These themes appear in his fiction as well. It is shocking DC Comics would hire him to write Superman, a character whose ideals represent all of us."

He continued, "If you replaced the word 'homosexuals' in his essays with the words 'women' or 'Jews,' he would not be hired. But I'm not sure why its still okay to 'have an opinion' about gays? This is about equality."

Zeus Comics was the recipient of the 2006 Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award, presented to a store "that has done an outstanding job of supporting the comic art medium both in the community and within the industry at large."

Adventures of Superman debuts online April 29 and in print May 29.