I wholly prefer making new characters with the sexuality/political interests the creator wants to express or attempt to hype, rather than changing established characters. Which is why I have an issue with Iceman. He was never portrayed as closeted-gay or whatever in the past of his career, they just decided to make him gay just for the fuck of it. It's … cringeworthy to read, just like reading Spider-Man getting along with Jonah Jameson for the past few months.
Truth is that I'm getting more and more disinterested in Marvel comics (as well as DC) in the last months … but I don't think that this woke thing is the reason. I just can't handle the constant flux of events and status quo changes that seem to occur every four months. Stark is resurrected only to tell us that now he's an A.I. and has yet again to fight for the mantle with his brother who resurrected their parents even though we just had one arc where it was revealed none of them was actually Tony's parents and his father was a Hydra agent and his mother was a rock star ...
It's a fucking mess. A clusterfuck.
But the straw that broke the camel's back was seeing Zemo's demise at the hands of … one of the Kingpin's goons? Zemo, who had an amazing arc in the Thunderbolts, who amassed great cosmic power and became more heroic than Captain America devolved into a I-don't-care idiot who was eating chips while the Kingpin told him to watch out for the Punisher and … seriously? The Kingpin pwned Zemo? I rolled my eyes so hard at this.
So yeah. Slowly moving away from all this.
Me too, and that is as someone that used to spend a hundred dollars a month in comic book stores.
Marvel is dead for me. I haven't bought a single book in several years and never plan to again.
I am not interested in buying woke-Marvel books. And it seems the demographics they try to pander to are not interested in buying their books either. Or maybe they are just broke.
For DC, I only still buy Batman, but not indiscriminantly. Tom King I will never buy another book from. He is just too over the top.
It is like they all compete against eachother who can come up with the stupidest, bullshit ever.
I think we are at end of the road for comics and comic books stores right now. It saddens me but what can I do.
I do still buy crowdfunded comics. I recommend Narwal. His Earthbound book was great.
Ethan van Sciver and CyberFrog is pretty awesome too.
At least they try to make comics that people want to buy.
But can you really survive an industry based on crowdfunding? I doubt it.