As a life long comic books reader and collector I know that for a lot of female super heroes the majority of the readers are male. Makes sense when you look at the male/female ratio of comic book readers. Of course there are women who read comics and there are comics made for a female audience. But I’m tired of these statements because they have a problem with a majority make hobby. I remember reading an essay about why super heroes appeal to boys/men more than women.
It’s been noted before but I didn’t hear any grumbling about female heroes until marvel chose to hire feminists who hated the audience and pushed comics like America Chavez that bombed. Or crapping on your actual fans to court this mythical female audience that so many companies think are out there. Granted if you can expand your audience that’s great but don’t do it at the expense of actual fans
Or the 999,999 times they rebooted captain marvel, but not real captain marvel, but with carol danvers evil twin Carl Manvers….. for real Carol Danvers had 2 important roles prior to being shoehorned into captain marvel and that was giving Rogue her powers, and showing up in tight clothes in the avengers. That’s it. Sue storm, Rogue, Scarlet witch, Jean grey, all vastly more important to marvel stories than Carol ever was.
I never saw Captain Marvel but I was highly annoyed when I heard they gender swapped the original one. I didn’t mind Ms Marvel in the old comics but didn’t care for the manly version
As a life long comic books reader and collector I know that for a lot of female super heroes the majority of the readers are male. Makes sense when you look at the male/female ratio of comic book readers. Of course there are women who read comics and there are comics made for a female audience. But I’m tired of these statements because they have a problem with a majority make hobby. I remember reading an essay about why super heroes appeal to boys/men more than women.
It’s been noted before but I didn’t hear any grumbling about female heroes until marvel chose to hire feminists who hated the audience and pushed comics like America Chavez that bombed. Or crapping on your actual fans to court this mythical female audience that so many companies think are out there. Granted if you can expand your audience that’s great but don’t do it at the expense of actual fans
Or the 999,999 times they rebooted captain marvel, but not real captain marvel, but with carol danvers evil twin Carl Manvers….. for real Carol Danvers had 2 important roles prior to being shoehorned into captain marvel and that was giving Rogue her powers, and showing up in tight clothes in the avengers. That’s it. Sue storm, Rogue, Scarlet witch, Jean grey, all vastly more important to marvel stories than Carol ever was.
I never saw Captain Marvel but I was highly annoyed when I heard they gender swapped the original one. I didn’t mind Ms Marvel in the old comics but didn’t care for the manly version
I never bothered seeing it either.