Posted on 05/24/2017 3:26:35 PM PDT by SMGFan
On March 30, a battered Marvel decided to try and get to the bottom of the problem with a retailer summit — and promptly stuck its foot in its mouth.
“What we heard was that people didn’t want any more diversity,” David Gabriel, the company’s senior vice president of sales and marketing, told an interviewer at the summit. “They didn’t want female characters out there. That’s what we heard, whether we believe that or not ... We saw the sales of any character that was diverse, any character that was new, our female characters, anything that was not a core Marvel character, people were turning their nose up against.”
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Somehow, I couldn't get past the first episode and gave up on it. It was a disappointment after Dare Devil and Jessica Jones.
Of course comics were only a dime (and in the early 50s 52 pages). Although dollars are more available to kids today than dimes were to me, I still got enough dimes to buy plenty of comics. But our entertainment options were pretty limited. I had TV but it was strictly limited, radio didn’t appeal to my 10-year-old self, and 5 hours of movies and cartoons on Saturday. Comics and outdoors filled in the rest.
The cult following liked it because it wasn't funny.
Bingo!
None of the fans were upset over Mystique being blue, or Storm being black, or anything like that -- because that's how the characters were.
It's things like let's make little orphan Annie… but black!
and things like the Endless Reboots/Remakes coming out of Hollywood.
It's like the whole of storytelling (modern movies, TV, books) is, as a whole, unable to be creative!
Actually, I just looked it up. Green Hornet is DC comics (now owned by Warner Bros.) and Marvel is now a Disney product. Both suck bigly.
This is a lot of words dedicated to why nobody, even brainwashed snowflakes, want to buy PC crap in comic book form.
Bring back Plasticman!
No, they were comic books...The strips were in the newspapers, yes, but they were still comic books...They sold for a dime, but every now and then, they’d come out with a bigger one for a quarter...
Well, they try to make superheros into gay shemales and then can’t figure out why they aren’t selling.
The Katzenjammer Kids: “We iss playing Donkey Oatey, mama.” Oh my stomach hurt from laughing.
Sounds like the companies got snobby.
I can understand it.
Gallant lovingly preserves his graphic novel in a sealed plastic bag forever.
Goofus dog ears the greasy pizza-stained pages of his comic book and loses it on the bus.
If you make the stuff, it's hard not to go for the consumer who shows the product respect.
Good and simple explanation.
Plasticman? Gumby Rules!
If you ask WHY companies should put in more diversity in entertainment one of the big reasons they will tell you is “to appeal to minorities”.
They will flat out tell you that people want to be entertained by people that LOOK LIKE THEM.
So by their OWN WORD they are saying you should sacrifice majority appeal.... and then they are shocked when sales tank. Morons.
Not interested in gays, trannies, deviency. Just want Sargent Slauhter.
Excellent post!
There were a couple of summers during elementary-school years when I read comics half of every day. I liked some of the simply funny ones, but I especially liked the Superman, Wonder Woman, and other ‘superhero’ ones.
Back then, the comics were witty, and included many allusions to higher-level literature. We DID have female superheroes; and whenever anything political/ideological came into the story, it was pro-Liberty, pro-America, anti-Bad Guy; and always contained a moral object-lesson that a child could understand and admire.
I don’t know what’s going on in comics now, but just due to the general degeneration of culture, I wouldn’t give them to a kid today.
It is not just Marvel Comics. The glass bubble aristocrats pride themselves on their out of touchness with reality. Chelsea Clinton is a shining example of pretzel logic for the sole purpose of trying to fit in and sound like everyone else in her crowd.
Same here. In the 1950s it was Donald Duck, Cisco Kid, Roy Rogers and so on. Not a “superhero” in the group.
In the 1960s it was THRILLER, COMBAT and CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED. Still no “superheros”.
By the end of the 1960s I was reading real novels at an adult level.
The only “superhero” book I ever read was a WWII hardback on Superman fighting nazi submarines.
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