Posted on 01/21/2018 11:23:30 PM PST by Trillian
Comic book readers are apparently not fans of progressive politics—a fact no more evident in Marvel’s decision to cancel every single one of its comics that has been nominated by the LGBTQ advocacy group, GLAAD.
In December, the publisher announced its decision to cancel many of its comics, citing poor sales. LGBTQ, feminist, and social justice-themed comics involving stories that revolved around Black Lives Matter, illegal immigration, and LGBTQ issues were among those to end up on the chopping block.
At a New York Comic Con panel in October, Marvel executives faced tough questions from retailers who complained about the company’s social justice push, with poor-selling products that took up valuable inventory space on store shelves.
This year, GLAAD’s 2018 Outstanding Comic Book category included several of the canceled comics for their contributions to “queer culture” and social justice, reports Gizmodo. The site states:
As has been the case with these sort of cancellations in the past, it’s not difficult to understand the why of Marvel’s decision. The publisher is, above all else, in the business of making money, and if certain comics don’t sell, it makes sense to cut them. At the same time, though, it stings a little to see all of Marvel’s comics with queer leads up for awards like this—and it makes you wonder what might have become of the series and their sales numbers if they’d been given a chance to continue after this sort of high-profile nomination.
The lineup, which was announced yesterday, includes “America,” featuring a teenage Latina girl named America Chavez, whose stories revolve around her life as a queer immigrant in college. The comic’s author, Gabby Rivera, is an outspoken “Latinx” writer who goes on periodic rants about “sexism,” “antiblackness,” and President Trump on social media.
Another GLAAD-nominated comic to get
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Oh dear! /s
Good for them.
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.
Why would they? Super heroes fighting evil?! It goes against their philosophical bent.
Yawn...let me know when every GLAD member has been axed...
I remember Northstar, vaguely. He definitely was a d-lister character.
I do know they made Ice-Man gay in X-Men. I remember him as a bit of an unremarkable character in the comics, but basically just a regular dude, perfectly suited as a member of a team book. Apparently, not only did they make him gay, but like this really bad stereotype of a gay man out of the mid-90s that actually should be offensive to gay people. But who cares, “representation” trumps portrayal and characterization.
Its just so stupid.
I believe he was part of a Canadian group called The Vindicators. They had a sasquatch version of Hulk, and I think Logan may have been involved with them at one point.
I'm curious: do French Canadians count as Latin-Americans? After all they:
1. Speak a Latin language (French)
2. Live in the Americas.
Definitely Latinos! :-)
I want my Plasticman back!
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.
They killed off the fagot black doctor, but the other fudge packer they have to keep alive as is essential to the current plot line.
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.
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