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Who could have guessed that “diverse” characters would tank Marvel’s sales?
Hotair ^ | 04/03/2017 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 04/03/2017 7:45:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: gitmo

His alter-ego is.


61 posted on 04/03/2017 9:10:05 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: FreedomStar3028
That’s a superhero I can get behind.

Milo Manara evidently understood the Spider Woman audience better than Marvel's marketing department:

Naturally, he was banned.

62 posted on 04/03/2017 9:22:44 PM PDT by FredZarguna (And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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To: SeekAndFind

They want to destroy everything that is good and American. Super heroes are one of the many things they have taken on and destroyed over the years. Every time I hear this has to have more diversity, I think that’s what they want to destroy next.


63 posted on 04/03/2017 9:24:56 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: PAR35

Your point? Pretty sure Cuba, Puerto Rico, Panama and other places are full of biracial people who happen to have a hispanic name.


64 posted on 04/03/2017 9:27:50 PM PDT by aft_lizard
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To: FredZarguna

I remember Milo Minara from Heavy Metal, he is actually a great artist, at least technically. He is famous for very well drawn pornographic comics. They should have praised him for depicting spider-woman with her costume on.

FReegards


65 posted on 04/03/2017 9:32:18 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
people love strong female heros....witness the Alien movies...witness the Hunger games...

what they don't want are female leads that are not feminine...

besides, who buys comics....little boys mostly....

66 posted on 04/03/2017 9:40:09 PM PDT by cherry
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To: gaijin

Tell me that’s a freaking joke. That’s not an actual comic book cover is it?


67 posted on 04/03/2017 9:47:20 PM PDT by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: cherry
besides, who buys comics....little boys mostly....

Come to think of it, I don't think I ever bought a comic book in my life.

Possibly I'm wrong in that, but I never had them in my house, and my friends had dozens, or even hundreds of them, and that's where I read them.

68 posted on 04/03/2017 9:54:23 PM PDT by dr_lew (I)
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To: SeekAndFind
But they show up at the store one day and the Three Musketeers are suddenly full of peanut butter your sales are going to tank.

Actually a Three Musketeers bar filled with peanut butter sounds pretty good. But yeah - the attempt to rewrite comic book heroes as multi-culti females is lame. Create new comic book characters with all the "diverse" BS you want and leave the old, beloved characters alone.
69 posted on 04/03/2017 10:03:15 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: SeekAndFind

Coming soon to Marvel Comics, Cam Cohen as Ms. Matzoh, the hard as steel Jewish super heroine and brisket maker.

If you’ve ever tried to eat a month-old piece of matzoh you will know that it is hard as steel. Can be painted and used as a substitute for the old white asbestos shingles on a house, body-armor on your car, and as Jewish throwing stars.


70 posted on 04/03/2017 10:58:00 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: DannyTN

The woman who writes it is a blonde Muslim convert who wears the head covering with a jaunty little wisp of her blonde hair poking out. Very chic. She may not want to go into certain neighborhoods in London, though.


71 posted on 04/03/2017 11:00:53 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: rlmorel

I got a little gray plastic submarine that you put baking soda into the conning tower, put the top on, and it would float up and down in the tube.
Does this count?

OK, if not, I did buy the long thick blue MARX model of the USS Nautilus about 1956 or so.


72 posted on 04/03/2017 11:01:35 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: cherry

Unfortunately, no. Little boys have typically never even seen a comic book in 2017. It’s mostly middle aged men.


73 posted on 04/03/2017 11:02:30 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Reminds me of an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where Robert was at Ray’s house and thought he would get the toy in the cereal. Ray grabbed the box and said, “If I don’t want it, you can have it.” It was the backing soda submarine. He said, “Want it!”


74 posted on 04/03/2017 11:04:21 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: cherry

Never mind the “unfortunate” part. It’s unfortunate that you would never want your kids to be exposed to the content of these comic books.


75 posted on 04/03/2017 11:06:26 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: SeekAndFind

Metro-sexual wimp, eh?


76 posted on 04/03/2017 11:55:10 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: SeekAndFind
This was always well loved by fans:


77 posted on 04/04/2017 12:39:10 AM PDT by grundle
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To: SeekAndFind

78 posted on 04/04/2017 12:42:17 AM PDT by grundle
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To: SeekAndFind

   Peter Marshall: "Paul, is there anything that can make a monkey cry?"

   Paul Lynde's answer: "Yes ... when Cheetah found out that Tarzan swings both ways!
79 posted on 04/04/2017 12:59:25 AM PDT by Maurice Tift (Never wear anything that panics the cat. -- P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: SeekAndFind

Kids who like to read about Superheros don’t want to read about Super Pansies or see their world defined as the evil from which the superheroes are rescuing somebody.


80 posted on 04/04/2017 1:47:38 AM PDT by arthurus
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