Yet, at least here, you can’t get on the subway without seeing ads for books. Books are frequently promoted in the “From the best-selling author of The Popular comes A New Thing!” It’s a format that would work perfectly for Marvel and DC – The studio that made The Hero Team Movie presents: The Amazing Magenta!

Yes, marketing for comics is almost exclusively done within the comics reader bubble. You don’t see ads for the new Spider-Man in Time or People or USA Today, or during the Super Bowl, or in any non-comics medium.

This is kind of where my train of thought was going. What does “marketing” for a comic even look like in 2017? The only way you’re drawing attention from potential new readers is with movies, or events so big that the mainstream news notices (Cap’s a Nazi). Outside of that, current readers know what characters and…

Or another case of a corporation not promoting or marketing specific titles and then wondering why they don’t sell well.

Cancelled titles that didn’t have broader appeal doesn’t really say anything about the industry, but it does say something about the market for comics in general.

Sorry, but this is bullshit. I don’t care how good anything is, if it isn’t marketed, it won’t sell. And Marvel has been dropping the ball on that front since at least last year, announcing series, not doing anything in regards to promoting them, and then cancelling them a couple of issues in. If they devoted half the…

Charles pointed that out in the article itself: “It isn’t at all surprising that America and Icemen could be ending; comics cancellations happen all the time, and the entire comics industry is in a rather tight spot right now. At the same time, though, both books seem to have suffered from the exact same issue that…

The article implies that both comics were not advertised or marketed to the same degree as titles featuring white, male, cis, etc. characters.

Why is it that even when the discussion is about Google, so few people bother to use the search engine?

“The problem I have with “microaggressions” is that it makes the assumption that all negative interactions are due to race.”

Like, does he (and do people that agree with him) honestly believe that, generally speaking, billionaires are billionaires because they sacrificed more than millionaires, and millionaires sacrificed more than everybody else in the world? If so, why do/how can they think this is a reasoned position?

Last time I checked, the within-population variability was greater then between-population variability. As in, two women can be more different than a man and a woman. So aaaaall the rest is just waffle. By all means bring in different ways of working, and yes men should be offered alternatives to the atereotypical…

Okay, I’d like to understand where you’re coming from. And I also want to make it clear: I am not advocating violence against people who make prejudiced statements. I’m not saying they should be stripped of their rights or run out of society. I do believe their prejudices should be challenged and met with scorn.

No. Prejudices are prejudices. They should be challenged and met with scorn. Just because a large group of people hold the same bigoted opinion does not mean that it’s a legitimate viewpoint this deserves attention. I will dismiss prejudices, both from others and when I myself have them.

Lots to focus on. This really caught my eye.

I could, and actually may write an essay twice as long as this manifesto in order to critique it.

Yes, he could make some enlightened, well-reasoned points if this was the 24th century and he was complaining about the overly idealistic policies and viewpoints on board the Enterprise-D.

I think there’s a difference between creating a space where it’s safe to voice potentially controversial opinions and wanting a safe place to present prejudices as legitimate forms of thinking. If you’re in a position of influence in the STEM field, where particular groups of people are infamously underrepresented,…