Especially when the DC books/shows were diversifying the shit out of a lot of their stuff long before it was seen as positive publicity and a fiscally responsible thing to do (black Supermans and green lanterns, gay/bi heroes left and right, etc., whatever the hell Hawk and Dove were). Hell, half the arrowverse is probably gay and they never played it off like it was special or something, just normal everyday living.
do you know anything about comics?
genuine question non-shit thread topic kind of
I was curious about comicsgate and did a small dive earlier trying to find info on it and it feels like there's scarcely anything about what played out past the initial furor
from what I gather it's like, bros claimed marvel was doing the whole go woke get broke thing, introducing changes left and right that they hated, kamala khan, riri williams, female thor, straight white captain america was secretly a nazi, all this stuff
they liked saying that all these changes were made for pandering and nobody was actually buying these comics, but people on the other side argue that there was a massive comics slump and every comic was selling badly at the same time, but some woke comics were doing well, but I can't find any citations either way
I know for a fact kamala khan was/is popular
what's the current state of all this? have any of these changes stuck around, and if so was it a giant nothingburger and they're selling just fine?
it feels like an un-googleable question
I do remember when
marvel announced new heroes snowflake and safespace, met with general disapproval from both political leanings, and to date the characters have not appeared in anything