In light of all this information, I am just glad that Marvel comics weren't given the license to publish Mickey Mouse and other Disney comic lines. IDW isn't perfect but they are not pushing SJW storylines.

You seem nice.

It's like I said in another thread, the left pushes and pushes, but then they're surprised and bothered by the pushing back. The lessons, training, and schools can be very expensive. That's why it's an elitist industry. A nepotistic industry too. The change needs to be systematic. Posting concern on social media can help a little, but it'll never nearly be enough

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.

Brie Larson is a person, arguing for greater female representation in the film industry.

The fact that you think that justifies any sexism whatsoever is wrong. But you do you, cupcake.

so can we go back to talking about infinity war now, please?

it rocked!! can't wait until next spring!!

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.

I am very much looking forward to Captain Marvel vs. Thanos, not going to lie.

I wonder if Nebula will steal the gauntlet from Thanos as she did in the comics, as well....

Part of the problem is that you tend to take the extreme hyperbole actions of a few and assign it to "The left" in an ignorant generalization. Like your current DC thread equating some loony website called "verysmartbrothas" as representing "The left." Pretty dumb.

They're certainly setting that up, I think.

Also: the sexism.

What's the answer? You people are so great at pointing out problems, some real and some not. How to fix this one?

They are both examples of the true left. Not moderate liberals, or moderate conservatives, or centrists. Not the Obama or Hillary wing of the American Left, but the Bernie or PETA wing of the American Left

Sorry to get in the way of the DC pissing match, but thought this was a good place to drop this.

https://www.thewrap.com/disney-wins-...llion-fox-bid/

While giving Disney even more power is a bit unsettling, I am curious to see if they ever try to bring the X-Men or Deadpool into the MCU somehow. I can't really picture how it would work well, but those guys get paid a lot more than I do.