He does care about comics.
He is also the father to children of color.
Also He created Powers that was a tv show for Playstation and Sony before anyone heard of Miles.
NOBODY expect Miles Morales to blow up especially with Sony refusing a black Spider-Man for a time.
All he did was the SAME thing MILESTONE did-see a need and try to fill it in.
It's not Bendis's fault no one could or was allowed to do anything with Bumblebee or Vixen. So yes Naomi WALTZ in.
It's not Bendis's fault folks would rather see Storm warm Logan's bed and badmouth Black Panther or majority of black women at Marvel were background fodder for YEARS. So here comes not just Riri but Moon Girl and a revised Shuri.
Aquaman is not BLACK.Aquaman went around with hook hand for years, his daughter just got a water leg, nobody made or makes an issue.
Aquaman has held a book while he had that HOOK. Someone invested in expanding him beyond that hook.
Same with Barbara Gordon as Oracle.
Same as Jessica Cruz with her issues.
Same as Iceman, Midnighter, Apollo & America Chavez (sort of) as people who are LGBTQA.
That since New 52 has not been done with Cyborg and attempts were FOILED by editorial. Who wanted a diversity check point.
I do have the slight suspicion that this may have fed into Doom Patrol!Cyborg being substantially less machine.
And why Johns was such a petty jackass to Fisher about it (which I can absolutely believe)
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Fisher's criticism in that tweet wasn't about Johns' actual stance re: Cyborg's genitals - Fisher didn't even mention where either of them stood on the issue. His criticism is that Johns positioned himself as an authority on the Black community. This was in response to Tucker saying that Johns tried to explain Black things to her.
We'll have to see if any further information on the subject comes up to clarify if this one is more substantial then the thing Whedon and post-production. However credible you or do not find Fisher (I find myself highly skeptical, due to how many times he's changed his story, but that's based on incomplete information), his post is so vague that it's hard to tell what he's getting at.
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