Marvel woke up today and said......let me remind y'all who the fuck we are!!
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Shit made me laugh hard as fuck at my desk!
I'm not making a point about comic sales. Superheroes as a whole have been on the wane for years. The only thing that kept them alive in the 90s were Saturday morning cartoons but even those were overtaken by the Pokemon/Digimon stuff from Japan.
Even in the MCU era of huge superhero blockbusters, superhero comics don't sell anywhere near as well as manga.
Here's my point; Hulk, Captain America, and Iron Man were just as much household names in the English-speaking worId as Spider-Man even before the MCU.
The sales of the comics is irrelevant because most of the people watching these films either never were really into comics or stopped reading them in childhood. If you went back to, say, 1998 and asked 10 random strangers if they recognize a particular superhero, I guarantee you just as many would recognize Hulk, Cap, and Iron Man as would recognize Spider-Man.
I agree with you except the recognizing those heroes (by non-readers) like Cap or Ironman. Spider-Man maybe, but that's it.
With all due respect, Captain America and Hulk had popular TV shows.
To the general non-comic. non-cartoon watching public I'd say they might know the HULK (he's part of public popular media) but Captain America a lot less. I dated a lot of women who didn't know who ANY of those caricatures were. Took one ex to see Fantastic Four years ago and she kept telling people I took her to see the "Super Friends"....lol
Had another chick I used to fuck that refused to watch Marvel movies because she couldn't get "the premise" of any of it. Couldn't tell you who was what.
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A big reason why comic books aren't selling is right here. They say a picture is worth a 1000 words. All of these women are writers of Marvel and DC and I'll through in Ta nahesi Coates I personally thought his shit sucked ass.
Because women are writing comics they not selling
A big reason why comic books aren't selling is right here. They say a picture is worth a 1000 words. All of these women are writers of Marvel and DC and I'll through in Ta nahesi Coates I personally thought his shit sucked ass.
is that what you are saying and believing?
No that's not what I am saying. When I started reading comic books Jeanette Khan was the editor at DC, Louise Simonson was one of the most successful writers at Marvel along with Ann Nocenti so it ain't the women its what kind of women. Clearly the women I posted have an agenda.Because women are writing comics they not selling
Ok ok I feel ya…
Not to be anti LGBTQ, but there is some substance to what he is saying. The majority of the world is heterosexual. Writers are used to writing from their perspective and experience. It's difficult to fabricate or talk about an experience that you have never had or do not currently experience. Then also do so without injecting your personal experiences.Because women are writing comics they not selling
This is partly why T. Coats didn't work. I appreciate his efforts, but he does not come from what many of us would consider a regular black experience. Though I believe his stories should be told. Is there an audience, that's another question.
Nope. Here's a graphic from Wikipedia's list best-selling comic series.
Iron Man and Hulk aren't on there but neither is The Fantastic Four or Wonder Woman for that matter.
That's not a good sample size, b.
In 1990 ask someone in India if they knew Wonder Woman or they knew Loki.
Ask them if the knew the Human Torch or Rocket Raccoon.
Ask them if the knew the Human Torch or Rocket Raccoon.
I HEAR you
bro let me tell you as someone who was a young black kid going to conventions and comic shops in the late 80s and 90s
do NOT over estimate the size of the geek culture
ESPECIALLY as opposed to now.
It is NOT the same at all.
It was not mainstream or accepted.
It was not cool ESPECIALLY for girls and even those in the know were madly devoted to ONE side of another
go ask comic book vets
how many WOMEN were fans.
they were THERE yes but it was DIRRECNT time they were not catered to or respected or..
hold on I guess times haven't changed much I digress.
I'm saying it was a sub culture not mainstream.
and the man you responded to?
@Drayonis KNOWS the comic book industry
TRUST ME.