You know, it's only just occurred to me that Demon Knights probably has more tokens than any other book I have ever read, but they're integrated into the story tightly enough that I didn't even really think about it.
I mean, we've got a woman who can't walk, a Muslim, and I think at this point it's pretty clear that Sir Ystin isn't dressing as a man simply as a disguise, he is in fact transgendered. (Which may make him the first major transgendered character in a DC or Marvel comic whose story hasn't revolved around shape-shifting in some way -- can anyone think of any others?)
Last week Paul Cornell joked that
A Million Moms should boycott Saucer Country to boost his sales. But really, if they knew there was a Muslim and a transgendered character in a book RIGHT NEXT TO DETECTIVE COMICS on the stand*, the fundamentalists would flip.
And yet the whole thing never really feels like it's pandering. (Maybe because, like all European medieval fantasy, it is so incredibly lily-white.)
* Well, not really; everybody knows Detective Comics goes under "B".