Comics Wrap-Up - Marvel, Don't Use Diversity As Your Scapegoat

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Another li'l Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 2, TV trailer for you my dearest nerdlets!

I still need to watch the first one. And the second one still looks pretty damn cool.

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A Marvel boss decided to make diversity the scapegoat for falling sales this week.

By diversity, they mean giving characters from marginalised groups - people of colour (PoC,) LGBTQ+ people, etc. - as well as women and girls in general, their own titles.






Here's just a few of the reasons that blaming falling sales on diversity is stupid as all hell:

• If you count heroines in general as diversity, you need to go take a long hard look at yourself in the mirror. Do better.

• The only people that diversity alienates are people that you maybe shouldn't be pandering to #JustSaying (For example, Nazi website Breitbart has already posted a bigoted article on the subject.)

• Female Thor sells more than Male Thor

• Kamala Khan as Ms Marvel is a bestseller

• Marvel runs too many series concurrently; there's too much choice for too small a fanbase (for individual issues at least) - and the fans can't afford to buy every issue Marvel is putting out, particularly with all the reboots and events. #TrueStory

Comic Book Resources also wrote a great piece about where Marvel's problems actually lie.

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