[AzSteven]

Meh. I am an avid fan. I am perfectly happy with diversity. However, diversity to me means you should have an actual female superhero, African American superhero etc in addition to the Golden Age stable of heroes - simply repopping all of the classic heroes in the ethnic or social popular image d'jour is frankly insulting to both the old-time readers and to those groups you are theoretically trying to feature/impress.

Marvel ALWAYS had a stable of cool female and ethnic characters. There is no reason they could not have emphasized those existing characters more, in more relevant storylines, or added totally NEW characters. Instead, they blithely erased long-loved characters in favor of the new images, or rewrote a conservative character to be a secret Nazi agent all his life. Its things like THAT which have put an end to almost all of my Marvel purchases.

[knittnmom]

Exactly.

[MightyMama]

Exactly. I never got hugely into comics because I would rather spend my entertainment money on books, but I’ve read and enjoyed many in passing. For me, it’s not the diversity, it’s 1) replacing an existing character with a Diverse! New! Version! and then 2) telling everybody who dislikes the change what racist scum they are. I’m totally gonna give my money to somebody who insults me, yup...