2 things are driving fans crazy. 1) changes to existing established characters and 2) proliferation of non-value added alternate covers with no internal difference.
Ping.
That’s business acumen right there. Nobody lesser could have predicted this. People not wanting their politics and their entertainment mixed? Nobody but nobody knew something bad could happen.
The problem is the writers are too stupid and lazy to create interesting new super heroes. Just like hollywood all they can do is ride the coattails of previous success. They cannot actually replicate it with new ideas. I suspect that they also know that any new superhero whose primary purpose is to showcase diversity would absolutely tank. Its far easier to blame a reboots unpopularity on homophobic clingers than to face the reality that absolutely no one has any interest in such BS.
Translation: “We tried to force a cultural and political agenda on our fans and we can’t figure out why our sales are down.”
Ambiguously Gay Duo was more interesting and funny...
“Marvel’s vice president of sales has blamed declining comic-book sales on the studio’s efforts to increase diversity and female characters, saying that readers “were turning their noses up” at diversity and “didn’t want female characters out there”.”
Yeah, your loss of sales is the fault of readers who refuse to be force-fed your leftist agenda. Too bad they’re ignorant, racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobes and can’t be as enlightened as Marvel writers./sarc.
If readers want this type of garbage they can subscribe to the NY Slimes. Why would they pay for comic books with this kind of kookery? (Although, come to think of it, the Slimes sometimes approaches comic book genre itself.)
I hope Marvel ends up having to file for bankruptcy.
It’s called overkill.
These are stupid:
Female Thor?
- Thor is male, and changing him is just politically correct nonsense. Few people would see that as anything beyond manipulation.
A black teenager Iron Man?
- Same thing. Hint - Ironman is already developed. They could create a new character, with somewhat similar but not identical traits, but that’s not what they are doing.
A biracial Spider-Man?
- Spiderman’s race was irrelevant when he was created, but it’s been decided. He’s a white kid, and that should not change. If they want a biracial superhero, have another kid bitten by a radioactive whatever, but make him a completely different character.
A Muslim teenage girl Ms Marvel?
- Again, they are pandering. Even kids (especially kids?) recognize that and resent it.
Gee, ya think?