I saw an article on Bounding into Comics about the upcoming Ms Marvel (Kamala Khan) series casting its main character. Marvel/Disney said they wanted to be true to the character. I laughed so hard when I read that. Maybe going forward they will care about “staying true” to the character.
I’ve been collecting comic books since I was 10 (now 30). A few years ago I was at a local comic con and one vendor was selling comic book mystery bags for 5 bucks. I got the Ms Marvel #1. Kinda boring to me but it’s been going up in price. Maybe I’ll sell it once it goes up more.
That is so freaking disingenuous. Suddenly they care about staying true to the character? What a bundle of sticks this people are.
Yea. I was so shocked all I could do is laugh.
We aren’t on Reddit anymore we can call them faggots.
The beauty of it is that there are so many comic books from 60s to early 2000s to read.
That's really my favorite thing with media now. Fine, go ahead ruin everything new--there's more old stuff than I could possibly ever get through in my lifetime. A lot of it is even cheap too so I can collect it all up in case they start destroying it.
You can entertain yourself for a very long time just cycling movies from 1984, and that’s one year.
This is the true purpose of perpetual copyright. They don't want to make money on their back catalog. They want to avoid having to compete with people who had actual talent and put in actual effort in the past.
Normies don't care about cape shit now Iron Man is dead and Endgame has happened.
Yea. In order to attract fans you have to make good stories but they seem more interested in diversity checklists. Also superheroes are probably on the way out except for comic book people like myself.
I care about DCEU, but that's because I'm a dirty simp for DC and keep hoping it'll be good.
I am one of the 7 people in the country who thought BvS and Justice League were good though, so whatever.
I actually liked Justice League and am looking forward to Snyder cut. Out of the few modern comic books I read Superman and Batman are the majority. I liked Batman vs Superman but my beef was that it combines two storylines when it should’ve stuck to one.
Yeah I'm also looking forward to that version. I hate Joss Whedon with a passion, so seeing a movie I like and taking out all his bullshit can only go well for me.
And BvS was certainly mogged down by them trying to rush and catch Marvel and burning quick.
Citation needed.
(Just twisting the knife a little lol)
There are dozens of us, DOZENS.
Memery aside, I know plenty of people who liked most of the movies after they saw it and then changed their mind because of the landslide of people saying it was impossibly awful and everyone hated it. That's why I joke sometimes that the memes about how bad they are are bigger than their actual flaws. Because if you even mention a positive thing about it, you get dogpiled most places about how awful it, and then you, are.
I won't say they outpace the MCU, but they are better than the lesser, forgotten half MCU movies but get triple the criticism.
They only care when it's some nonwhite getting miscast. Recasting whites as anything else though? Replacing whites is their goal so why would they complain?
Pretty much this. In their mind it's perfectly fine to "race-lift" a white character into a POC (Heimdall, Valkyrie, or what they tried to do with Iron Fist), but heaven forbid that you try to swap out any other race to white. Hell, the gingers in pretty much any comic book or movie adaptation get it the worst - there's a meme example out there of how many redheads from comics and cartoons got swapped into non-white people in live adaptations.
That being said, I do remember a small blow-up when it was rumored that they were looking at remaking Buffy the Vampire Slayer and they wanted to recast Buffy as a POC to start with. All the blue-hairs over on Twatter lost their shit because HOW DARE THEY. Just more "rules for thee and none for me" crap, if you ask me.
Heimdallr in particular pissed me off once I learned the actual mythology. He's literally referred to as "The whitest Aesir". Changing him was deliberate and malicious.
Anagram replacement theory in action.
The double standard is so obvious yet they can’t say it.
It’s a not-so-subtle insinuation that white Christian heterosexual men have no valid identity. You can’t make black panther a white dude because his blackness is central to the character. You can’t make Ms. Marvel a Christian because her Muslim faith is central to the character. You can, however, turn every white Christian straight male into someone completely different because none of those characteristics represent valid identity groups on the left. And if you try to establish any of these as valid identities worthy of inclusion, protection, or promotion, then you’re a bigot committing literal genocide against black trans women.
Incidentally, doesn’t genocide tend to reduce the size of a population? Exactly which populations are shrinking in America, relatively speaking?
why most of the books I read and shows I watch are older. Plenty of things I haven’t read or seen yet. Race/Gender swapping today is usually a red flag.
What character? She's basically a cheapo Peter Parker with an unhealthy dose of fangirl obsession and a politically trendy identity that's barely addressed beyond stereotypes and vague references to how her parents are strict.
Ms Marvel / Kamala Khan looks fucking dumb with her big hands power. Every other thing about her is irrelevant to me.
Can’t remember where I read it, but the anti-popularity of Ms. Marvel says a lot about both men and women. While both men and women clearly enjoy powerful female heroes, neither demo seems interested in ugly or grotesque female heroes. And gigantic disproportionate rubber fists are definitely grotesque.
Cant imagine how that's going to look with CGI. I don't see how it could be done in a good way.
Are old Captain Marvels actually worth anything?
The O.G. Captain Marvel from the '60s (the white dude in the hero suit) will run you around $50 or more per issue depending on what kind of shape they're in and the relevance of the issue.
Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers) issues from the '70s, you're looking at anywhere from a buck and up, depending on grading and relevance.
Anything newer than Silver Age and you're looking at a baseline value of around a buck per issue, if you're even going to be paying that much for it. You can probably find a lot of the new Captain Marvel (Carol) and Ms. Marvel (Kamala) issues in the quarter bin at your FLCS.
Ah, this is the white dude in a hero suit with the shield. They're in really good shape, no idea of what the stories are about. Sounds about right for what he paid, but I don't expect him to do more than break even, if he bothers to want to look to sell 'em. I just wanted to see if he got totally soaked or not (this was years ago, when he bought them, long before I met him.)
Yeah Shazam was a great movie and his comics well worth their money.
The original Captain Marvel? Depends on the issue. Same with Ms Marvel.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure. They belong to my husband, and I think the price on the cover is a dime. I'll have to check with him, though, see if he remembers (they're stuck away in plastic, I don't want to go hunting for them.)
i like how in the article if mentions racism in Uk. The only marginlised people here are the indigenous people who are discriminated against in everything.