However, it gets worse for DC Comics, as he writes, “DC had a pretty bad year, with their lowest sales since 2004 – down 25% from 2022 in the bookstore market – even with their highest ever number of titles in the total list. In 2023 they had only 14 titles in the Top 750; in 2013, ten years ago, they had 130. That is a huge and troubling drop – but maybe laying off nearly your entire sales and marketing team is not a great strategy for growth? If someone had been been making a concerted effort to dismantle DC Comics, they couldn’t have been more surgical – luckily, DC still has talented execs like Marie Javins, Jim Lee, Annie de Pies and the rest of the staff who have thwarted those plans. And from what we’re hearing, 2024 will see some more moves to reverse this concerning trend.”
I wouldn't hold my breath.
Japan learnt the way to keep women from fucking up their manga:
You have a Yaoi section available along with muscular men doing sports, distracts them from going to our action plus gets their money lol.
You’re presupposing that western feminists have any sincere interest in expanding brands or audiences. In reality, these people are primarily motivated - by hatred and resentment - to commandeer, subvert, and destroy the beloved icons of their political and cultural enemies. Making comics for girls and women would be mind numbingly easy, but that’s not the goal. Wrecking comics for boys and men is the goal.
Exactly why they chose to infiltrate and subvert Boy Scouts while leaving Girl Scouts alone, even though the gaslighting reason they gave us was that Girl Scouts didn't do as much of the "fun" activities that Boy Scouts did.
Its not about giving girls their own equivalent thing, it's always about taking something away from boys and making that "for everyone" (ie mostly catered to girls) while preserving girls spaces and hobbies and clubs.
For the stone headed feminists, you're completely right.
For their followers on and other women, it ain't hard to distract them with some Yaoi or revenge porn like Re do of healer.
And with them distracted, the shill shouts of the feminists get quieter and quieter..
And I remember a woman who actually was into comics saying that people don’t want slice of life stories with their super heroes. I can remember before giving up on modern comics super heroes sitting at the table discussing feelings.
Comics has always had a problem with, I believe the term was, speecifying? Where the characters talk about what they are doing rather than showing them do it. Them sitting around discussing feelings has always been a thing, and as long as its not the only thing they are doing it can lead to some nice setup to some plot later.
True, with good writing you can do that. I loved the dialogue between Punisher and Spider-Man when they would team up and debate their opposing philosophy. In the example I mentioned that was the only thing or current year commentary. Like the all new all different avengers a citizen mentions he misses the old avengers and is condemned as a racist. I liked the avengers due to the sci fi aspect and going into space. They took that away
Big shocker that some of the most popular superheroes are based heavily on slice of life on top of their heroic stories huh?
Spider-man is cool and all, but Peter Parker’s struggles and relatability make him the icon he is today.
Absolutely but notice they blend the two. Some female super heroes discussing the patriarchy for the entire comic isn’t my cup of tea
They also know they shouldn't alienate their audience by making their male characters gay in shonenshit just because women write doujins about them
And I remember a woman who actually was into comics saying that people don’t want slice of life stories with their super heroes. I can remember before giving up on modern comics super heroes sitting at the table discussing feelings.