Marvel executive says emphasis on diversity may have alienated readers

UK Guardian ^ | April 3, 2017 | Sian Cain

[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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Why waste money on superhero comics when you can waste money on video games and be a (virtual) superhero?

[hattend]

saying that readers “were turning their noses up” at diversity and “didn’t want female characters out there”.

Gee, ya think?

[GailA]

Seems every TV show you turn on has queers in at least 1 scene or is about them. My morals rebel over that. Man shall not lie with a man, nor a woman with a woman. Same goes for these Pedophiles. End of story.