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While you wait for a response, K-Kitsune... Why don't you elaborate on why Rutog98's "2015" understanding of beauty & ugliness is flawed?
Last edited by ZNOP; 08-06-2015 at 10:47 PM.
Lmao isn't it obvious? According to The Big Book of Rutog's Beauty Basix (first published 1958 but now out of print I think!) apparently long haired, feminine Storm is beautiful and universally appealing, and mohawk Storm is "ugly" and unappealing. Ultra-femme Storm would also apparently translate to instantly amazing sales, where young men from around the globe couldn't resist the long-haired wonder gracing the cover: so long, so shiny, what a mane! "is she taken?", "I wish she was my girlfriend", "she'd never cheat on me" they'd wonder, eating up every issue.
Also apparently appealing to basic dudes is everything even though young women are the fastest growing demographic in comics/ and market research even suggests that around 45% of comic fans are female (probably an exaggerated figure but very important regarding market potential), as well as comic-con attendees under 30 (the most important demographic) are a 50/50 male/female split.
Spoon-feeding is hard my hand hurts!
Last edited by K-Kitsune; 08-06-2015 at 11:41 PM.
Long-haired Storm is standard and has much more universal appeal than the mohawk. Mohawks are counterculteral, punk and against the mainstream especially in females. Notice how few women walk around today with mohawks. That said, other hair styles have also looked nice on her like the one she sported during the "Onslaught" era and also the hairstyle from the "Arena" arc.
That said, I have never maintained that making her feminine and beautiful with long hair was all it takes to her solo to succeed. You are totally making that up because you are wrong on your point, thus you are now reduced to lying. What Storm's book needed was many things: she needed a physical look that carried greater universal appeal, she needed bigger stories with more challenging threats, she needed stories that were fresh instead of the rehashed nostalgic feel the opening stories in her title projected, she needed friends and foes that could rival her in appeal, and she needed a cast for her book unique from the other series Marvel publishes. She doesn't need leftovers from other books for friends and foes (though occassional guest-stars and the occassional borrowing of rogues from other series is more than fine). This is what I have always recommended and you know it, yet you choose to only focus on one aspect of what I said to try and make an assertion that Storm's look is the only thing I claim needed to be changed in that title.
Edit: One more thing the book needed was better marketing by Marvel.
Last edited by rutog98; 08-07-2015 at 02:39 AM.
Out of curiosity would anyone stop being a fan of Storm if she was bi??? If Axel confirms the goddess is str8; I'll still be a big fan, Ororo is perfection.
Last edited by Kieran_Frost; 08-07-2015 at 02:21 AM.
"We are Shakespeare. We are Michelangelo. We are Tchaikovsky. We are Turing. We are Mercury. We are Wilde. We are Lincoln, Lorca, Leonardo da Vinci. We are Alexander the Great. We are Fredrick the Great. We are Rustin. We are Addams. We are Marsha! Marsha Marsha Marsha! We so generous, we DeGeneres. We are Ziggy Stardust hooked to the silver screen. Controversially we are Malcolm X. We are Plato. We are Aristotle. We are RuPaul, god dammit! And yes, we are Woolf."
No and that's not what I asked for either. I just wanted the "indisputable" narrative why.