This is partly true. It's always been weirdly accurate that sales of the big tentpole movies do almost nothing to move the needle on equivalent comic sales, like the Iron Man comic sucked before and after the Iron Man movies, sales-wise. That said, trying to boost a character's popularity to the point that you can…

It feels irresponsible to surmise from statistics. I'd better surmise from a lack of statistics instead.

Robin will be white again in a) a year, b) all forms of non-comic media forever, c) all of the above. They're not really doing better, they're honestly doing the exact same thing. Trying out diversity in their smaller market of comics where it's safe to abandon it when systemic racism keeps it on shelves.

That's not the only thing they tried though. Moon Girl is not a major original character being redone (if only because who's ever heard of Moon Boy). The sad fact is that it doesn't matter if you use diversity or not, people don't buy into new comic book characters. Not really. I mean the internet has heard of…

Yeah, it's got a tone of "Get a load of this asshole" when the quote doesn't exactly say "I want Moon Girl to fail, I hate my diverse business!"

This sort of thing bums me out since the guy wasn't saying "Hey, but at least we have an easy solution of just giving Thor a penis again." He's basically saying the comic-buying audience, when taken as a whole, has a racist wallet. If we call everyone who identifies systemic racism a racist, nothing ever gets fixed.

Enoch Root from Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle. That son of a bitch always knew more than he was letting on, and every time you started to think he was some wise Yoda figure that was there to guide the protagonists towards some life lesson, he'd up and do something selfish and then vanish to pop up again…

So does my cousin, but you don't see Canadians keeping him around.

Nala has like 10 lines, so I hope they beef her role up a little before spending a billion dollars on Beyonce.

Jared Leto has already started mailing all female actors roughly the right age condoms and rats and things.

Flash, when asked for comment, said "Be honest, this neck thing makes my whole head look like a foreskin, right?"

"Turns out that Harbor’s bombshell has caused a massive uptick in
suicides, what with fear of oblivion no longer outpacing desire for
escape." - The AVClub review of Pearl Harbor

Hey look it's why Hilary lost. Oh, and women in general, all the time.

"Oh boy, we got Jack McBrayer and Jane Lynch back! That's big news!"

As your hot water heater, I'd be remiss if I didn't bring you scripts of your caliber.

The thing that bothers me most about that is that there is literally no company anywhere that has bothered to just release a press release of "Yeah, we can dump waste in rivers now, but we won't." It's just literally assumed (and apparently correctly so) that businesses are categorically incapable of doing the right…

Weren't the aliens in Sphere just humans from the future?

Oh, is this based on a Japanese horror movie?

But wait, she's fallen in with the hippie subculture of the day…(cue "Incense Peppermints")
And it's taken a dark turn into heavier drugs …(cue "White Rabbit")

"Hey guys, I only did two hours of material at the expense of gay people because it was free and easy to do so" is a tough excuse to sell.