You know what, I changed my mind. Forget fire Remender. Fire everybody. The writers, the editors, just everybody. Replace them with people who can deal with criticism like fucking adults.
I’m all for that, but you’re going to have to re-staff at least half of comics.
If that’s what it takes I’m up for it. Being a shitty human being doesn’t entitle you to a job.
I’ve collected comics for twenty years. I’m past tired of watching an industry I love think that because I’m female my opinion is not only worth less than a male’s, it is actively hindering to their view of what they think it should be. It has become oh so very easy to spend my money elsewhere in the last decade. The comic book industry wonders why when a movie like Avengers makes over a billion dollars (and yes Avengers is a sausage fest of largely white men) that a best selling comic book is under 50,000 copies. Yes, some of it is the format. People don’t read the way they used to. LCS being your main point of distribution is a problem. Digital distribution is helping a lot but it isn’t solving the bigger issue. The issue where if you aren’t a straight white male you’re treated as something to advance the straight white male’s storyline. That’s disgusting.
When a human on any disadvantaged axis starts yelling about how they’re being mistreated by the media/the world I listen. I listen because 999.99 times out of 1000 in my past experience they’ve been right. What the fuck does that say about our culture? About how we treat our fellow humans?
Comics is a symptom of a bigger problem in our culture. Comics and art reflect the larger culture they are in and what is allowed to be said. The Big Two have a platform and a voice and that voice says terrible things.
It needs to stop.
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