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Both DC and Marvel decided on a kind of quota program for their characters years ago. It become more important than the stories. You just had to accept that they were going to kill off/retire beloved characters so that they could make their political statement. They decided that they had to have X number of black, Asian, Hispanic, homosexual, etc, characters take over the mantel of characters to make a statement. At DC the classic Green Lantern and Batwoman came out, and rumors persist that Wonder Woman will inevitably come out of the closet (and island full of lesbians, etc). Mr Terrific and Firestorm were killed off and replaced with black Terrifics and Firemstorms. Marvel has started the gender-switching thing now, with Thor being a woman.

Both DC and Marvel decided on a kind of quota program for their characters years ago. It become more important than the stories. You just had to accept that they were going to kill off/retire beloved characters so that they could make their political statement.

And when the liberal agenda became the focus and not the stories and the characters they drove away a lot of readers (myself among them about a decade ago). The political correctness went up, and their sales figures went down. Today it is news when a title breaks 100,000 in sales when in the 80s they were considered "in trouble" if they fell below 200,000.