[Saweeep]

Now, I don't really know a great deal about comic books etc but I knew you guys would like this

Quote:

The team will make its Secret Wars debut in May - in a series co-written by G Willow Wilson and Marguerite K Bennett, with artwork from Jorge Molina.

“She-Hulk, Dazzler, Medusa, Nico Minoru and other fan favorites, will take charge,” says Wilson. “We've purposefully assembled a team composed of different characters from disparate parts of the Marvel U, with very different power sets, identities and ideologies.”


Speculation is bound to follow over which female stars will feature in the inevitable A-Force live-action movie. In 2012, the live-action film The Avengers set the record for the biggest opening debut in North America, earning $207.4 million in its first weekend.

Enjoy gents

[MrXY]

Yeah like a bunch of female superheroines would cooperate well enough to save the world.

Bitches can't even run a PTA chapter without constantly arguing and backstabbing each other.

[TheWastelander]

Seeing as how they're all attractive and wearing tight spandex, it's not a victory for feminism. It's a victory for nerdy teenage boys everywhere. If they start making them fat as shit and ugly then it'll be a victory for feminism and the series will die.

[JustlookingForAGoodTime]

(02-06-2015 04:16 PM)TheWastelander Wrote:  

Seeing as how they're all attractive and wearing tight spandex, it's not a victory for feminism. It's a victory for nerdy teenage boys everywhere. If they start making them fat as shit and ugly then it'll be a victory for feminism and the series will die.

I agree.

Take a look at the history of the artwork for those characters. They were all pretty hot stuff, Dazzler was a model! When you start seeing fatty heroes is when you know the agenda has been implemented.

[kaotic]

They look awfully cold in their outfits....

[Snowplow]

[Grange]

People blame things like this on feminist agendas but if it didn't move units they couldn't get away with it. Someone needs to school the comic book nerds who buy this stuff.

[vinman]

Basically every broad that can't carry a monthly title....

[Snowplow]

I wonder if they can together conquer their arch nemesis Aunt Flo.

[Dr. Howard]

(02-06-2015 04:23 PM)JustlookingForAGoodTime Wrote:  

(02-06-2015 04:16 PM)TheWastelander Wrote:  

Seeing as how they're all attractive and wearing tight spandex, it's not a victory for feminism. It's a victory for nerdy teenage boys everywhere. If they start making them fat as shit and ugly then it'll be a victory for feminism and the series will die.

I agree.

Take a look at the history of the artwork for those characters. They were all pretty hot stuff, Dazzler was a model! When you start seeing fatty heroes is when you know the agenda has been implemented.

Google "Big Bertha Marvel" once they give her, her own comic and change her name to Beautiful Bertha then you know its over.

[markygras]

Disney's Marvel Comics subsidiary has effectively transformed into a publicity machine for their movies.

This is what happens when your product is no longer under the sway of normal capitalism anymore. Prior to Marvel being purchased by Disney, they were down to only one monthly female-driven comic ("X-23", a co-opted Wolverine character). Poor sales marked it for cancellation - the comic-buying public (for superhero comics, its still mostly males) doesn't really care about female super-heroes. This was around 2009-2010 or so.

Disney buys Marvel, and the Avengers movie became the 3rd highest grossing film ever. Heck, the opening weekend for Avengers made more than Marvel's superhero comic revenue for an entire year. This revenue and corporate protection effectively subsidizes Marvel's output. They no longer have to make decisions based on market forces. Disney approves SJW actions and then basks in the easy publicity (which at the end of the day is intended to serve as publicity for their upcoming movies).

- Ultimate Spider-Man is half-black-half-hispanic
- New Ms. Marvel is Pakistani
- Captain America is now black
- Thor is now a woman
- All female X-Men comic and an all female Avengers comic

They're completely surrendering their creative control to the mouse company. Insider websites claim that writers have been instructed to not create any new characters for X-men or Fantastic Four, as their film rights are owned by 20th Century Fox. I think they're even in the process of cancelling Fantastic Four for the time being (and Wolverine's absence/death is extended too).

[BortimusPrime]

(02-06-2015 06:56 PM)markygras Wrote:  

This is what happens when your product is no longer under the sway of normal capitalism anymore.

Being bought out by a large company that will eventually bloat itself into self-destruction with inefficiency from endless acquisitions and a continuously enlarging internal bureaucracy is normal capitalism.

I don't know about anyone else, but I just read webcomics written by authors who don't get too socially just on me (so xkcd and least I could do are out now, unfortunately). Also, any time someone starts going on about the latest Marvel movie I point out to them that they lack coherent plots or characterization and are just commercials for the next Marvel movie. People vote with their dollars and hopefully one day people will tire of spending $12 at a theater just to watch 'splosions.

[RockHard]

Isn't all feminism by definition "comic book feminism"?

[WalterBlack]

(02-06-2015 06:56 PM)markygras Wrote:  

Disney approves SJW actions and then basks in the easy publicity (which at the end of the day is intended to serve as publicity for their upcoming movies).

- Ultimate Spider-Man is half-black-half-hispanic
- New Ms. Marvel is Pakistani
- Captain America is now black
- Thor is now a woman
- All female X-Men comic and an all female Avengers comic

I can't see any movies being released any time soon with the heroes as listed above. Nobody will go to watch them.

How influential are comic book sales now? This is the Dec 2014 chart. The top selling comic only sold 113K copies. (I apologie for the formatting, I'm not sure how you get a table into RVF)

Comic-book TitleIssuePricePublisherEst. sales
1. Batman37$3.99DC113,255
2. Amazing Spider-Man11$3.99Marvel104,739
3. Shield1$4.99Marvel94,503
4. Batman Annual3$4.99DC81,396
5. Thor3$3.99Marvel72,563
6. Justice League37$3.99DC72,081
7. Amazing Spider-Man Annual1$4.99Marvel71,284
8. Avengers and X-Men Axis7$3.99Marvel70,194
9. Avengers and X-Men Axis9$4.99Marvel69,518
10. Avengers and X-Men Axis8$3.99Marvel69,449
11. Harley Quinn13$2.99DC68,102
12. Walking Dead135$2.99Image67,361
13. Harley Quinn Holiday Special1$4.99DC63,465
14. Spider-Man and X-Men1$3.99Marvel61,952
15. Angela Asgards Assassin1$3.99Marvel61,398
16. Sandman Overture4*$3.99DC58,655
17. Robin Rises Alpha1$4.99DC57,990
18. All New X-Men34$3.99Marvel57,569
19. Detective Comics37$3.99DC54,953
20. Batman and Robin37$2.99DC53,543
    

[StrikeBack]

I'd pay to see a movie staring Whor, the female Thor.

[Arphalanx]

(02-06-2015 08:15 PM)WalterBlack Wrote:  

(02-06-2015 06:56 PM)markygras Wrote:  

Disney approves SJW actions and then basks in the easy publicity (which at the end of the day is intended to serve as publicity for their upcoming movies).

- Ultimate Spider-Man is half-black-half-hispanic
- New Ms. Marvel is Pakistani
- Captain America is now black
- Thor is now a woman
- All female X-Men comic and an all female Avengers comic

I can't see any movies being released any time soon with the heroes as listed above. Nobody will go to watch them.

How influential are comic book sales now? This is the Dec 2014 chart. The top selling comic only sold 113K copies. (I apologie for the formatting, I'm not sure how you get a table into RVF)

Comic-book TitleIssuePricePublisherEst. sales
1. Batman37$3.99DC113,255
2. Amazing Spider-Man11$3.99Marvel104,739
3. Shield1$4.99Marvel94,503
4. Batman Annual3$4.99DC81,396
5. Thor3$3.99Marvel72,563
6. Justice League37$3.99DC72,081
7. Amazing Spider-Man Annual1$4.99Marvel71,284
8. Avengers and X-Men Axis7$3.99Marvel70,194
9. Avengers and X-Men Axis9$4.99Marvel69,518
10. Avengers and X-Men Axis8$3.99Marvel69,449
11. Harley Quinn13$2.99DC68,102
12. Walking Dead135$2.99Image67,361
13. Harley Quinn Holiday Special1$4.99DC63,465
14. Spider-Man and X-Men1$3.99Marvel61,952
15. Angela Asgards Assassin1$3.99Marvel61,398
16. Sandman Overture4*$3.99DC58,655
17. Robin Rises Alpha1$4.99DC57,990
18. All New X-Men34$3.99Marvel57,569
19. Detective Comics37$3.99DC54,953
20. Batman and Robin37$2.99DC53,543
    

It's hilarious how Batman-related stuff pretty much dominates the comic book charts. Feminists must be fuming at how a rich, white man is basically king of the comic book superheroes right now.

Also, why is this news? Birds of Prey (created by a conservative guy, Chuck Dixon, to boot) has been around since the 90's. Wonder Woman has been repelling alien invasions from Venus back in the oh-so-sexist 40's.

As someone else said, when we get landwhales in skin-tight costumes saving the world, THEN there would be cause for concern. This is small-fry stuff right now.

[spokepoker]

Are they re-doing the "Secret Wars" mini-series? I read the first and second series when I was a kid, and if I remember correctly, most of those chicks were in them.

[Bizet]

All female writers too. God this is going to be awful.

[Tim in real life]

(02-06-2015 06:56 PM)markygras Wrote:  

Disney's Marvel Comics subsidiary has effectively transformed into a publicity machine for their movies.

This is what happens when your product is no longer under the sway of normal capitalism anymore. Prior to Marvel being purchased by Disney, they were down to only one monthly female-driven comic ("X-23", a co-opted Wolverine character). Poor sales marked it for cancellation - the comic-buying public (for superhero comics, its still mostly males) doesn't really care about female super-heroes. This was around 2009-2010 or so.

Disney buys Marvel, and the Avengers movie became the 3rd highest grossing film ever. Heck, the opening weekend for Avengers made more than Marvel's superhero comic revenue for an entire year. This revenue and corporate protection effectively subsidizes Marvel's output. They no longer have to make decisions based on market forces. Disney approves SJW actions and then basks in the easy publicity (which at the end of the day is intended to serve as publicity for their upcoming movies).

- Ultimate Spider-Man is half-black-half-hispanic
- New Ms. Marvel is Pakistani
- Captain America is now black
- Thor is now a woman
- All female X-Men comic and an all female Avengers comic

They're completely surrendering their creative control to the mouse company. Insider websites claim that writers have been instructed to not create any new characters for X-men or Fantastic Four, as their film rights are owned by 20th Century Fox. I think they're even in the process of cancelling Fantastic Four for the time being (and Wolverine's absence/death is extended too).

I pretty much called it since 2010, when Marvel pretty much called the shots on their side (exemption is Shuma-Gorath DLC) for Marvel VS Capcom 3 and even then, every single Marvel rostermember in 3 ended up getting feature film adaptations...but still no Classic Megaman.

Even DC fans find it sad that "Mickey Mouse now has the final say whether a new Marvel VS Capcom gets licensed or NOT.

[Sonsowey]

Snarkiest comic book series ever, I'm sure.