Why can't my primary fandom be one less full of jerks please

[mrsfrankenstien]

So some asshole on tumblr has decided that Batman And Robin #23 (ft. the return of Jason Todd) is an objectively bad story because, horror, girls might like it. Judd Winick knows that his audience has a lot of women & queer folks and he actively encourages those people to keep reading his books, and this is proof that his writing is terrible and lacks substance. Never mind the fact that approximately every other writer working in comics consistently panders to-- and only to-- cis white dude fans over the age of 35. Nothing about the consistent return to boring-as-fuck cis white dude characters from the 1960s is inherently "bad storytelling", no. Only when we get our icky fangirl cooties all over things does fanservicey pandering* become a negative thing. (Because obviously alienating new readers and catering only to people who have been buying comics for decades anyway is How Marketing Works, that's why the superhero comics industry is going so well! Oh wait no, the opposite of that.)

Hi. I am fucking pissed off about this, if you couldn't tell from the overuse of italics. This icon is an accurate representation of my face right now.

* And, okay, I am not denying that there is fanservicey pandering going on. The comic in question had a gratuitous shower scene. But you know what? So did Oracle: The Cure.

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