*Gauntlet Slap*
Dear DC,
Yes, your rival’s recently announced shake-ups are pandering gimmicks, the first of which reeks of desperation and the second of which is moderately less whiffy by virtue of fitting into The Cap continuity.
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I like your heroes more, DC. Except Superman, he’s lame. I like your storylines more. I appreciate your tendency toward moral ambiguity. This year alone, however, Marvel has given us a same-sex wedding (or was that last year — it all sort of blurs), a young Muslim-American MC (who used to be a blonde cheerleader type), an Avenger who shows the (literally) dirty underbelly of heroism, along with bunch of other moderately cool and, sometimes, downright progressive, stuff. Ya’ll relaunched and we ended up with the same crap we were getting before dressed up in slightly altered costumes with slightly altered backstories and *yawn* Sorry, what?
Is the new diversity a marketing ploy? Probably. But it had to start somewhere and this is a capitalist republic we live in. Build it and we shall come and spend disposable income on it, provided we can identify with it. And at the moment, there are far more of us who can identify with the Marvel Universe.
Unless ya’ll are announcing a Wonder Woman solo comic/flick in which Diana will be anything other than Caucasian and straight, Marvel has already won
That’s it, I’m defecting.
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Comic Con. And don’t quote Kate Kane to me; you haven’t allowed her to marry the love of her life, have you?
Step it up, guys, or your once nearly bankrupt rivals are going to leave you in a smoking cloud of ash.
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