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.
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.