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Originally Posted by Jamie
This is so far from accurate I can only assume it's completely pulled out of your ass.
You can see here Marvel's total number of comics sold has generally fallen between 2 and 4 million since the industry recovered from the speculator crash in the late 90s. That's a fairly large variance, but nothing you could characterize as an 80% drop. Plus this isn't taking into account trades and digital, which are bigger pieces of the pie than they were 10 years ago.
One conclusion you can draw from this data is that comics are at point near inelastic demand. So when faced with that the ways you can make more money are to either A) raise prices (which they have) or B) make an attempt to appeal to people outside the sphere you are operating in. So you get the push for diversity, not as some kind of SJW plot, but as an attempt to tap into a trend to sell comics. I think it didn't work because there weren't genuinely diverse points of view, it was mostly the same white male creators pandering. And before someone gets their dick in a knot, that's not a criticism of white male creators, it's a criticism of pandering. |
Good post.
My issue with the comics was their decision to take established characters and flip their genders, just because. I have no issue with however many superpowered female heroes or villains they want to throw out there, as long as they are well written and are their own characters. I don't need a woman to become Thor just to prove women are "worthy" - have Thor fight alongside his female counterpart. How hard is that? And the problem is that Marvel did it to nearly all their frontline "name" heroes. Complete shit. Just come up with a new stable of female badasses, the Marvel Universe is certainly big enough to hold them.