Readers Are Abandoning Marvel Comics After Social Justice Invasion

DC sales are currently soaring due to Rebirth. If Marvel's sales are dropping, it's mostly because there's only so many titles people are willing to buy, and DC's offering so many great titles right now.

I don't read as many comics as I used too, but it was still hard to not notice the feminist slant being pushed lately, not only with comics but into movies as well (Ghostbusters, anyone?).
I find it frustrating with what appears to be a desire to turn our male superheroes into females (and I'm a woman). First Thor, and now Ironman. I keep telling people that once they're done with Cap being Hydra, they'll probably make him a woman.
My main issues is that if they want to make new female superheroes, create them. Don't take over male roles. If I want to read Ironman, I want to read about Tony Stark and his genius and his struggles. I don't want to read about Riri, some kid. All this decision does is make me stop reading Ironman.
I actually hope it does affect their sales. Maybe, that will reach them when the people's voices, who has read their comics for years, haven't.

This so much. Right now we have:
mixed Spider-man
black Captain America
female Thor
female Wolverine
black female Iron Man
asian Hulk
female muslim Captain Britain

I mean, what are they trying to accomplish by replacing every major hero with PC characters? Are they trying to tank their comics on purpose?

Who do they think reads these comics? Seriously. They're idiots.

The problem isn't so much the gender-swapping, it's the crappy writing. I was fine with the idea of a female Thor, but the writing was so ham fisted and self-indulgent that I never bothered with the second issue.

Meanwhile smaller publishers like Image Comics are putting out beautifully drawn and impeccably written works like Monstress, which tackles feminist issues without being pandering or alienating its own target audience.

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None of this crap is permanent, it never is. Eventually Bruce Banner will be the Hulk, Thor will be Thor, Steve Rogers will be the only Captain America. I have more faith in the history of the characters over some writers who have their heads up their butts.

Well, obviously you can count on fair, unbiased reporting from the same site that posts headlines like "The Solution to Online 'Harassment' Is Simple: Women Should Log Off" and "Teenage Boys With Tits: Here's My Problem With Ghostbusters".

I wonder how many anti-Mutant headlines there would be if they existed within the Marvel Universe.

I stopped reading Marvel because of constant tie-ins to massive crossover events I didn't care about and because of relaunch after relaunch after relaunch making them seem more and more impenetrable despite the intent to make easy jumping on points for new readers. I certainly didn't drop them because of political agendas or social commentary. If they can stop the tie-ins and let their comics breathe a bit more, I'd love to pick them up again.

Considering how Marvel's past features things like Captain America punching Hitler in the face in a time when many Americans still supported him, or the X-Men serving as a metaphor for oppressed groups, or characters like Luke Cage, Misty Knight, Falcon, and Black Panther addressing racial issues, it's safe to say Marvel has ALWAYS addressed social issues of the day, and I expect them to continue doing that.

It's funny how people love to give Marvel points for being more "realistic" than DC, but when Marvel actually tries to reflect the actual diversity of the world around us, a handful of crybabies start whining about it.





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Great article! Here's another one on the same subject.

http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/08/04/chuck-dixon-milo-yiannopoulos-show/

Full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmutyUg89KM

Chuck Dixon On The Milo Show: ‘My Characters Have Been Morphed Into PC Cyphers’

Chuck Dixon, the acclaimed Marvel and DC author, appeared on The Milo Yiannopoulos Show to discuss the state of modern comic books and the legacy a writer leaves behind.

“Are you worried about your legacy as an artist as a creator, are you worried that you’re gonna wake up one day and they’re going to turn The Punisher into a Black Lives Matter activist, I mean do you care about that? Does that offend you as an artist, the fact that some of the work you have done in the past might be gerrymandered for these unnecessary petty political reasons?” asked Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos.

“Well I mean most of them already have been. I’ve seen my characters morphed into PC cyphers. But the thing is once I’m done working on them, it’s like watching your kids go off with another guy. The new daddy is here, I just don’t pay attention to it otherwise I’d be crying myself to sleep every night, so I just walk away from it and go on to new work, move forward.” replied Dixon, referencing Marvels latest attempts to make their comic books more SJW friendly.

In recent months Iron Man has become a 15 year old black girl and The Hulk is now a Korean teenager. And as Milo himself has said, female Thor is the result of progressive hand-wringing and man-hating ruining a cherished art form. As comic books become more mainstream following the success of many of Marvels films, their attempts to pander to the liberal masses are entirely unsurprising.

“But if you did pay attention to it, presumably it would be quite upsetting” continues Milo. “Sorry, I feel like I’m asking you to relive childhood trauma, like some sort of horrible therapy sessions where I’m dredging up these horrible false memories or something, I’m sorry I don’t mean to press the issue, just if it was me it would be like someone going back and rewriting my columns with like new politics and crapper jokes, I’d be horrified.”

Dixon jokingly replied, “I feel like I’m at a convention now because I always get questions like ‘how do you feel about what they’ve done to your characters’ and I mean I had a character that I had created that I really liked and had an affinity for and DC, they had her raped, tortured and murdered in the most gruesome fashion and I’m like what the hell. And then even more cynically they brought her back a couple of years later. It’s hard not to take it personal, I did a book called Nightwing for years and when I left it they killed every single supporting character and then nuked the city.”