Fantomex was in this?
Of course they don't deserve "accolades".
But in an Industry that has been "broken" for a very long time and now the cracks are showing through the paint...they are making an effort to change.
One of the reasons CotA along with many other Marvel books are being cut short because the current business model no longer works for/supports a post/in-Covid market (from the general reports US states are still spiking in number of infections.)
It's not some conspiracy against WoC...it's about which books are expendable.
Lord Ewing *Praise His name! Uplift Him in song!* Your divine works will be remembered and glorified in worship for all eternity. Amen!
It’s either that or it may just be getting cut altogether. I love the ever-flowing inclusivity of having one Black writer on the lineup at a time whose only contribution is a six issue or less series.
Why do you have a mindset that the industry is “broken”? The problem isn’t that it’s broken, but it was specifically designed to only be accommodating to cishet white men, everyone else be damned. That’s why we’re hearing about so many women who’ve had horrible experiences who couldn’t do shit about it because those people were generally in charge or in some position of power. The only difference is that the foundations are transparent and everyone can openly express the disgusting nature of the comic book industry.
Vita isn’t a woman so idk who the ‘WoC’ is targeted at.It's not some conspiracy against WoC...it's about which books are expendable.
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When I say "broken" I mean inclusive of all the issues pertaining to sexual misconduct, gender/race inequality and yes, the accommodation of CWM...that has recently been brought to light. It's clearly been "broken" for decades.
And in the aftermath of all the issues and problems coming to light, and not just in Industry, but Nationally...they should be making changes and fixing what's broken going forward.
WoC= Writer(s) of Colour.
While the X-Office have been behind the curve...Marvel hired Eve Ewing to write Ironheart, Coates to write BP. Saladin Ahmed to write Spiderman Miles Morales so...they've been doing a bit of course correcting.
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Lord Ewing *Praise His name! Uplift Him in song!* Your divine works will be remembered and glorified in worship for all eternity. Amen!
Didn't they all get added before they got the rights back to the XMEN?
Never made any sense to me why Coates got Black Panther when Storm was available. Not a BP fan, but when I've been in those threads BP fans seem to think Coates should've been on Storm instead.
I think that before the XMEN were reunited with the MCU, all the up and coming new characters of color were always non-mutant. Hopefully with the XMEN back in focus, I expect diversity issues to improve.
Yupp.
Hopefully the X-Office will improve bringing in more PoC.
The do have a female assistant editor, Annalise Bissa. And female writers Tini Howard and Leah Williams.
Plus, Vita Ayala, Marte Gracia, Mahmud Asrar, Pepe Larraz, Leinil Yu, Marcus To, R.B. Silva, Flaviano Armentaro...all non-white creatives.
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Lord Ewing *Praise His name! Uplift Him in song!* Your divine works will be remembered and glorified in worship for all eternity. Amen!
So true. It started out so distinctive, with three girls and two boys (where the average Avengers or Justice League or X-Men lineup had maybe two girls out of *seven,* and often just one (Wonder Woman, Storm, etc.)). And then Ilyanna, Doug and Amara all showed up and blonded the place up, which was particularly egregious since Ilyanna's family has black hair, and Amara was intended to be a South American native...
But yeah, more Asian dudes would be nice. Sunfire, Silver Samurai (post Big Hero 6 he's turned around), Wiz Kid, Collective Man, Dragon, Auric, Thunderbird III (Neal Sharra, who direly needs a better name, IMO). It's not like Asian boy mutants don't exist...
And Polymer, Keratin, Stalwart, Mentat, Contact, Imp, etc. get no love at all. Ernst (along with Martha) barely gets included in a background every now and then just because she's got a cool visual. Justice for Slick!
It is weird how Quentin gets used so differently. In Morrison's run, he used drugs and telepathy to foster a riot at Xavier's that ended in the death of one of the Cuckoos (and Glob setting himself on fire and attempting to murder a bunch of humans on school grounds). After that fiasco, the three flunkies who were *less* involved in the riot went to jail for it, and Quentin and Glob? Nothing. Now he's mysteriously better-looking, spontaneously became a telekinetic (he wasn't, originally), and everybody seems to have forgotten the riot entirely, with one of the Cuckoos even making goo-goo eyes at him (they originally held him in contempt and called him disgusting, and that was *before* he got one of them killed, when he was merely a wild-eyed druggie supremacist).
Tessa is suppose to be from the Balkans I believe.