Last edited by TheFerg714; 07-20-2018 at 03:47 PM.
Valiant- X-O Manowar / Bloodshot Salvation / Ninja-K / Quantum and Woody! / Shadowman / Harbinger Wars II / Brittania
DC- Justice League / Hal Jordan and the GLC / The Flash / Aquaman / Mera / Mister Miracle / Silencer / The Terrifics
Other- The Walking Dead / Mighty Morphin Power Rangers / Go Go Power Rangers
I hope we get a Cloak and Dagger book out of this. They would fit right in with the tone and feel of the marvel knights brand.
Women actually do make up somewhere around half the comic-reading audience. (I think it's just over half for the industry as a whole, and around 40% of Marvel's audience, but I'm going by memory because I'm too lazy to look up the actual stats, so I could be off.) They just get fewer opportunities. And it's an industry-wide problem - pretty much all publishers give fewer opportunities to female writers than male writers. And the comics industry, while not in the dire straits everyone thinks it's in, does need to expand by reaching out to a wider audience. A big part of that is going to be women and minorities, groups who've traditionally felt excluded from mainstream comics. Beyond that, we live in a time where more and more straight white men want to read stories by people who come from different backgrounds, with different perspectives on the world. I mean, I don't like the Punisher. At all. I oppose him on a conceptual level. But if Vita Ayala wrote him? That's something that would grab my attention. Because a brown person writing a character who's killed a looooooot of brown folks over the years? I'd be curious how their racial background shapes their view of the character.
So, yeah. Gender, race, sexuality, there's a lot of things that actually do matter.
Matt Murdock's cooler twin brother
I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!
Thomas More - A Man for All Seasons
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This is ludicrous. Comics are a fantasy genre and this kind of thinking, that identity should be a prerequisite to writing a character, is going to limit your options to extreme levels. And it really perplexes me that you would use an example like that. That you would only buy a book about a character based on the race of the person writing him. And I REALLY don't think the Punisher singles out any race when doing his job. He kills horrible criminals. He doesn't care what race they are. I don't know why anyone would assume he unfairly gunned down minorities, unless you think less of them as a whole or view minority criminals as somehow morally superior to their white counterparts.
Good Marvel characters- Bring Them Back!!!
Romance is also the genre that still gets far and away the least respect in the literary world, funny how that works, huh. In fact, the book world remains horribly misogynistic. Women get reviewed far less often, get nominated far less often for awards (and win few), and are simply not part of discussions regarding Great Literature.
I'd also point out that misogyny and toxic masculinity are the main reason why there aren't more men writing romance novels. They're seen as "feminine," as something meant for women. Men are so damn afraid of looking less like men that we've sworn off an entire genre of fiction, and we have so much contempt for women that we've declared that genre to be lacking literary value.
Let's test that theory. How many of these book reviews are for works from female authors?
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/book-reviews
Good Marvel characters- Bring Them Back!!!
White males make up maybe a third of the adult population Marvel can get for their creative staff. It would seem to me to be advantageous to expand your search for talent to a population triple what it had been previously. And yeah, the 33% I used may be off, but the general idea stands.