I have too much vacation time so I took off early today and went to my local comic book store. It’s amazing that the same store used to make its money on new release comics but that was a number of years ago. Now it is the smallest section with Manga, tabletop, and back issues being much more in demand.
I tend to buy back issue comics and now try to support the stuff from those who don’t hate their customers like Eric July, Shad, Razorfist, Drinker, and now manga since they have this odd concept of writing stories people want to read.
I can understand trying to expand your market but at some point they had to have realized that the massive female audience they wanted just didn’t exist. And they didn’t take into account that ever since MCU popularity people love the idea of comic books but don’t actually read them so those polls they like to tour are meaningless. Similar to those polls showing that women make up half of all gamers but when you break it down it shows what you would expect regarding the games that generally appeal to men and women.
On the bright side I picked up the first appearance of She-Hulk. Now if only they had adapted the Byrne run instead of making a show to specifically piss of actual fans
They never really catered to the “massive female audience” either. If they had, all of the comics would resemble Twilight or 50 Shades of Grey. The truth is that most new comic books are catering to leftism. Leftist creators claim to promote women, minorities, etc. because this makes the product unassailable by “good people”. That’s how leftists have always propagated their failed and murderous ideologies - via deception and preying upon the sympathies of well-meaning people.
But leftists are subversives who only care about destroying existing properties as a means to harm non-leftists. Once the IP or community or industry has been successfully ruined, leftists just move on to the next target. They don’t stick around to financially support the things that were desecrated to please them. Because the desecration was the only thing that mattered to them.
That’s true. I do remember when they droned on and on about getting more women into the hobby but pushing leftist nonsense does seem to be the overriding theme
There’s a high degree of symbiosis at play. Leftists push feminism as cover for communism, and feminists are happy to go along with the con because they accrue very real influence and power along the way. The overriding goal for both overlapping groups is the destruction of western patriarchal/masculine civilization. When the pillars eventually fall, the coalition of fringe weirdos will quickly be at each others’ throats.
Exactly. How anyone can deny the destruction of what came before is beyond me
And good point, they could’ve just made a Twilight type comic for women.