Posted on 04/03/2017 7:41:29 AM PDT by C19fan
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”.
Over recent years, Marvel has made efforts to include more diverse and more female characters, introducing new iterations of fan favourites including a female Thor; Riri Williams, a black teenager who took over the Iron Man storyline as Ironheart; Miles Morales, a biracial Spider-Man and Kamala Khan, a Muslim teenage girl who is the current Ms Marvel.
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It must be the movies that keeps them in business
When I was a kid you could buy comics at the local drug store. Now there is one place in metro Memphis that sells comics
I always thought that the name "Khan" reflected Mongolian or Sikh ancestry, neither of which are necessarily Moslem ...
Maybe if they hadn’t decided to simply replace beloved characters from my childhood with females for reasons that make absolutely no sense even in comic book terms, it might have worked out a little more smoothly. The Mighty Thor from my comic book days in the ‘70s is now a drunkard who can’t lift his hammer while his former girlfriend is now the new Thor and the new owner of the hammer. Why? Because girrrl power or something.
Ya think?
‘I’ll never understand businesses purposefully alienating large swaths of customers to push the progressive agenda.’
They live in leftist echo chambers. They have no idea that they’re inciting a backlash until it’s too late.
Fwiw:
Khan
Meaning & Origin:
The ancient surname Khan is a contracted form of Khagan, from the Turkish khan meaning “chief or ruler.” It was originally a hereditary title born by early Mongol leaders, such as the legendary Genghis Khan, but is now widely used as a surname throughout the Muslim world. Khan is an especially common surname in South Asian Muslim families, and is also one of the most common surnames in Pakistan.
https://www.thoughtco.com/khan-name-meaning-and-origin-1422541
Dave Letterman last year because he couldn’t compete with YouTube cat videos - he SAID so.
these guys will be out of business because they can’t compete with 4chan.
just a matter of time.
Thanks for the info ...
Miles Morales was a complete disaster by itself.
I have never — once — seen a girl reading a comic book in the past 25 years. The last one I saw was reading Archie in the 1970s
[ Gee, big surprise. Makes me wanna barf.
And if you’re actually putting in a Muz as a hero - making it female with scarf to punctuate it - you’ve really gone over the edge. ]
The funny thing is that they Female Muslin superhero would be seen as violating all sorts of Sharia Law based off the fact she hangs out with a bunch of non-related male superheroes and you can see her hair...
It would be like trying to pander to Catholics by having a superhero that eats Beef on Friday.
Obvious pandering done by people who have no bloody idea about religion, ie. atheists.
[ “‘Kamala Khan, a Muslim teenage girl’”
I always thought that the name “Khan” reflected Mongolian or Sikh ancestry, neither of which are necessarily Moslem ... ]
good catch, could be seen as a slap in the face to the Sikhs....
readers “were turning their noses up” at diversity
Not Likely, try Readers are Sick and Tired of PC, Islam, and the Push to eliminate Moral and Cultural boundaries by the Entertainment Industry.
Watch for more diversity as she dates a black sheep. Little role reversal but when you’re a muslim a sheep is a sheep is a sheep.
More gay marriages instead of action, that'll sell.
No. For fifty years, kids were dying to know the details of the superheroes’ sexual orientations. Keep going. Kids really are interested today at finding out which genders the heroes truly identify with, from a panoply of 12 or more choices. Keep focusing on genitalia. Don’t stop.
Marvel should go to retailers like Be, Bath and Beyond, Target, Nordstrom and introduce s clothing bed line to replace the Ivanka Trump merchandise. That’s how you capture new market, diversity at it’s best. On stop in JC Penney if you really need a boost to sales.
Khan is indeed Sikh, but the Muzzie Mayor of London’s last name is Khan, so which is the chicken, which is the egg?
[ “‘Kamala Khan, a Muslim teenage girl’”
I always thought that the name “Khan” reflected Mongolian or Sikh ancestry, neither of which are necessarily Moslem ... ]
good catch, could be seen as a slap in the face to the Sikhs....
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