re: The latest Spider-Man is a lesbian woman in a wheelchair

Manga is a $5.6 billion dollar industry in Japan alone.

I still buy it on occasion.

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There's so much that if someone bitches about a given female character having boobs too big and she's in a story written for your males, the artists will likely just make them bigger.

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What I love about the writers.

They don’t give a frick.

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"Batman gets his back broken!"

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Robot Chicken spoofed this and it was hysterical.

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Stout is only outraged by what Fox News and Breitbart tell him to be outraged about.

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I see they’re handing out talking points at the bathhouse.

I just explained this to my wife. Her question is do her feet just dangle while she’s flying building to building I’m in tears

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Comics shot themselves in the foot with all the crossovers and empty promises of the 90s.

"Superman dead!"
"Wolverine gets his metal removed!"
"Batman gets his back broken!"
"The last Xmen issue!"

Every one a gimmick.

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And all the variant covers, hologram cards, special bagged versions (Death of Superman, for example), etc.

Such events are fine for character enrichment and growth, but you're right in that it became "the thing" for no more than shock value (and, of course, to push sales).

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All because of over saturation.

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Preach. At one point Spiderman had 4 or 5 titles running at the same time along with co-starring, guest-starring or cameos in other books.

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What's going on now. Where popular movie characters in comics are being rewritten as 'super-woke' is all just odd marketing. Your not getting long term readers.

The legacy comics are 50-80 years old. You think in 50 years people will read this version of spider man?

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This really is key. Marvel and DC have forgotten who their core audience is and are in complete denial in thinking other groups will make up for the traditional customers they've lost.

Comic books were generally created with young boys in mind, the sub-20yr old crowd. Some stabs were made at appealing to girls but they generally failed. No one was stopping girls from reading them, they simply didn't flock to them en masse like boys did (and still don't).

Marvel's jump into the superhero game changed things, Stan and Jack were making content for slightly older kids up into the mid-20s. DC ended up eventually following suit. From that point on the content was primarily geared at young males 25 and under (again, some attempts at appealing to females were made, but they mostly failed).

Flash-forward to the last decade or so and you have the domestic comic book industry begin moving into pushing more wide-appeal stories to attract more than just young males. While comic sales had dipped in the late 90s, they began dropping more quickly in the 00s, and that has continued through today. A lot of that has been the lack of those wide-appeal audiences coming back to buy comics each week or month, buying instead just a specific book which may have touched on some social issue (or, as has become increasingly the case, just writing glowing articles and social media posts on it without actually buying it).

The other big issue with comic books today is that comic book price have FAR outpaced inflation (the price for a comic in 1995 was ~$1.50, when accounting for inflation the price should be just under $3, even less than that if you go back to the 1978 price of $.35). They've generally moved out of price range of their original target demographic. Thirty years ago I could have taken $20 and bought over a dozen comics. Today it would be three or four.

This turning away more and more from the industry's traditional core audience for one which more and more isn't turning up for anything other than lip services is killing them and they seemed determined to keep believing that doubling down on it is the key to changing things (and DC isn't helping itself with its cosmic level ineptitude in self-management).

Ugh. She’s white. So much for diversity at Marvel. They’re racist shitlords.

Spiders with defective legs are typically are easy prey...

So this show should be called Spiderperson Meals on Wheels

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So what's the point of having superpowers if you can't even walk. Seems like a pretty major disadvantage there.

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What? Peter Parker didn't always have his spider powers. He was just a nerdy dude then got bit by a spider which gave him his powers and even then he had to still be Peter Parker.

So I imagine she was a lesbian woman in a wheelchair. She got bit, received spider powers, but still had to be herself if she is trying to hide her superpowers.

She evidently carries her wheelchair with her so I would think that would be a give away, but if her powers are taken from her at some point then she is a lesbian woman in a wheelchair. Just like Peter Parker is a nerdy dude without his powers.

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RogerTheShrubber

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Did you build that trap by hand while you were building your time life home and going to school and working full time?