Forgive me if it's old news, but I hadn't seen this before.
https://youtu.be/8i9hBX0UMEI?si=cEKJB2WIv_LGnJoy
Check out the segment starting at 19:22. Druckman just says it out loud. There was a "pitch" (by team members who were explicitly tasked with injecting diversity) to make a character trans. I don't recall seeing this so directly stated anywhere else. Really confirms what we've long suspected.
Imagine a bunch of tranny and queer devs doing a little power point presentation for their boss explaining why a character in their video game should be trans. Then imagine the boss actually doing it. The state of modern western writing.
to be fair, woman do love comics. that market demographic just got snatched up by manga and webtoons before the comics industry could react.
I meant super hero comics. Should’ve been more specific. That genre skews more male but yes there are comics women like and manga does a great job at understanding what tends to appeal to men in women. It was like the feminists infested comics and went after the comics that tend to appeal to guys
The industry straight up refused to even pursue that market at any point. They didn't lose at a quick draw, they were fucking asleep at the wheel for generations. It's only fairly recently that you're starting to see a return of non super hero comics. There were a few that did manage to break into that market like Sandman, but on the whole the comic industry hasn't produced anything for people who aren't into capeshit for ages. They'll blame the comics code or whatever from the long distant past but the truth is even once that went away they just straight up didn't try and just coasted on their captured audience who knew how to find their way to a comic shop.
Zero innovation, zero effort. They can reap the fucking whirlwind and I won't cry for them.