Heh, A Thought

[shiny_glor_chan]

So, big hullabaloo (hee, fun word) about DC doing a reboot come Fall. I could count the reasons this is making me giggle, but my most recent thought before I fall asleep is: this will all go down while I'm Italy. XD

Comments

[anonymous]

DC has Cyborg on the Justice League as part of the rebooted universe. The Avengers have their token Luke Cage, not that he matters much because the real ticket is in the All White "Classic" Avengers that features Thor, Tony and Cap. DC has the new and improved Aqualad, while Marvel has Eli Bradley. DC may have dropped the ball with Static, but Marvel can't even be bothered to sell Rhodey's book under his own name. It has to be under the white dude's name. Iron Man 2.0. Oh, that's clever and progressive, except not.

DC might think that green people = diversity, but Marvel thinks black heroes should be pimps. Or get their powers from street drugs.

Marvel is not ahead in the diversity game.

Moreover, DC treats their women better than Marvel ever does (there is no Scarlet Witch equivalent at DC, nor did any of the JLA sit around chuckle about one of their own getting raped by their own son nor has Oliver Queen ever said "Gosh, Dinah, I wish I could believed you were raped but bitches like to lie about that stuff" because Dinah would never have put up with that crap the way Mockingbird did.)

DC can be bothered to have more than one queer female, unlike Marvel who thinks the only queer people who matter are gay teenage men.

There are more types of diversity than just racial and on most levels, DC blows Marvel out of the water. On the racial front, they are the same.

Personally, I'd like Garth back, and Tula, and Dolphin.

You're upset about the "diversity" in the DCU, yet you want to swap out the black Aqualad for the pale white kid and his even paler family? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.

It's like OH LOOK! DC is gonna change their universe again and think this is epic!

Marvel did the same with Dissassembled, House of M, Civil War, Dark Reign, Secret Invasion, Seige and the currently godawful Fear Itself.

The job of PR is to make your event sound earth-shattering and impressive. "Here, buy our comic. It's cool" doesn't sell books.