Last edited by 9th.; 01-15-2022 at 12:28 AM.
Reading List (Super behind but reading them nonetheless):
DC: Currently figuring that out
Marvel: Read above
Image: Killadelphia, Nightmare Blog
Other: The Antagonist, Something is Killing the Children, Avatar: TLAB
Manga: My Hero Academia, MHA: Vigilanties, Soul Eater: the Perfect Edition, Berserk, Hunter X Hunter, Witch Hat Atelier, Kaiju No. 8
If you actually read their criticisms, you'd see they said no such thing.
That's easy for you to say when it isn't your culture being misrepresented. And if you're looking for someone to blame for a lack of representation, blame the companies not the people criticizing them for screwing up.
They don't have to. But they chose to make a book based on Brazilian culture and mythology and even tried to springboard a tv show out of it. The least they can do is not annoy anyone belonging to the culture they're portraying.
Also, FYI, I'm not even American.
Those tweets some posted earlier in this thread are literally from when the future state issues were coming out, that's definitely not the reason the book was cancelled. Yara Flor is still one the quicked breakout characters for DC recently, so I'm sure they'll find a place for her after the event.
I liked Yara but I felt her solo was moving too slow. So I moved it to the trade wait list. It's a bummer it got canceled. It would've worked better as an Earth One graphic novel. But that's a larger problem with Future State not just Yara. Outside of Jace, FS did a poor job introducing the new characters.
Last edited by the illustrious mr. kenway; 01-15-2022 at 09:08 AM.
Yeah, Yara was a cash grab trying to revitalize a identity that has kind of wallowed in irrelevance for a while. Doesn't mean Yara can't also be a good character, I think she can be even if her story was kind of inconsistent, but Yara wasn't created to give indigenous people in South America a voice. To market it as such is a bit disingenuous. Money was the main motivation. So I can kind of understand where actual indigenous people could get upset at her creation. Like in America all of our culture and things are bastardized and resold to us where we don't even think about it anymore, but if you are from a culture in South America that is pretty insular and this big American company and foreign creators come in and take your culture and religion and then twist it into something it isn't to profit I can understand being upset at the whole thing. Obviously it wasn't the reason for her book being cancelled, but the whole situation is complicated. I still think introducing her in her 20s was a mistake. She should have been a proper teen, but I get she was originally created with a TV show in mind so her being older would work better for that.