Oh dear! /s
There are only so many people who are going to buy this leftist, sexist, anti-straight comic crap, and that cannot sustain a business.
I’m looking over my later sister’s comic book collection from the late 50’s thru 60’s and while they are pretty mild in terms of the personalities and actions, they are not weirdoes, sexual fascists or Marxists, feminists, etc.
And they didn’t hate America.
If the Left doesn’t stop hating America, they won’t have very many readers left for any of their crap, and that would be a good thing in my book.
There is something to be said about quality and rationality in the written world, something that is of short supply in too many types of medium, and the message is getting long on “blame”, “hate-whitey”, “the rich, upper class”, “white privilege”, only minorities are superior to everyone else (a la George Orwell’s tome on Marxism, “Animal Farm”), and “gimme free stuff”.
I’ll take “Roadrunner and Wiley Coyote”, “Cleghorn Leghorn”, Twitty and Sylvester, Heckle and Jeckle, Lil Abner & Dogpatch, and Tarzan over most of the junk out there today.
There was no “hate” in them like the leftist, black racist crap of today.
When I was a kid, and a comic was 12 cents, if that sort of bullshit was in the comic I would have freaked!
Anyone remember Northstar? Me neither. He and his split-personality sister Aurora looked to me like Marvel’s bizarre take on DC’s Wonder Twins. (And Marvel had to make them French-Canadian, of course.)
Tragic.
So, a bunch of people on the left demand this stuff, then they don’t buy the books. It’d be one thing if there really was an untapped market, but it doesn’t seem to exist. These people demanding “representation” merely want to be the gate keepers, not actually interested in a product that want to buy. You see a bit of this in video games as well.
There’s no audience for these characters. Then on top of it, alot of these books, most of them, aren’t even well written. So, characters with limited appeal, plus lame writing? Sounds like a great sales pitch.
And the funny thing is, there’s always been dervisity in comics. It just wasn’t this crazy social justice warrior stuff back in the day.
Yawn...let me know when every GLAD member has been axed...
The LGBTq crowd is only normal in a tiny segment of leftist society. To everyone else they are freaks.
Everything was fine until they started pushing their lifestyle on everyone else claiming it was normal. It’s only normal if they are like any normal hetero couple and don’t flaunt their relationship in the face of others.
Sgt. Rock is smiling.
So....Marvel should pay to produce the comic books at a loss because it will make people who don’t buy the comics happy.
Yes. That is a business model that will work.
/sarc
Hilarious. So now Marvel has irritated people who just like comic books to be comic books AND those who think every cultural milieu has to be a homosexual statement.
Then they became focused on truth, justice and the American way. Then they focused on social justice. Few were sold after that. They died out.
If comics are your bag, you could try “Alt-Hero” It is about to launch having been more that fully funded. A project of Vox Day, author, blogger, editor,etc.
https://freestartr.com/project/althero/
Marvel’s, as with other comic makers, have all opted to pursue ‘diversity’ and SJW themed comics, to their detriment.
I bookmarked this particular video moons ago...hits the nail on the head:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKFG0OHw1FU
If this were strictly true then the characters would never have been commissioned.
ALL media has become a propaganda organ for leftest, anti-American/business/white male christian distortions.
Well.... Whaddya know?
Maybe Kinsey really did pull that ludicrous ten percent number out of his backside. And packers and munchers really do make up less than 3 per cent of the population after all?
3,000 / 158,000 = 0.0189 or less than 2%. I don't understand why a business wouldn't want to give up 98% of its sales for the pursuit of social justice. Perhaps we need a law to mandate that people buy these comics or face tax penalty.
Wait. Is that too over the top? You're right. That would never fly. Government would never make people buy stuff.
the left is so brainwashed into thinking that those who disagree with tem are idiots that they don’t understand subtlety of message. What is wrong with all these titles that employ the social justice theme is that a lot of times the message and the story just are not relatable to the public at large. there is a thinking within liberal circles that if the person does not agree with you lets hit them over the head or even shock you with the storyline. so they take a character like the green lantern announce he has been gay for years and suddenly give the character a gay lover and make it an overt part of the story line. then hit the reader over the head with the fact that the character is gay making it it more important in the story line as far as dialog then what the reader is reading the comic for. ( a story about a villain that wants to do X bad thing or Steal X object)