Yep, just hit today! I'll read anything Parker does. Dude's a big can of retro gold.

SIDEBAR: Check out Future Quest if you haven't. Solid book.

Yeah, blocked that dude. He's trolling for a fight, and doing so by taking half-speed swats at people.

Well, I don't see racism going away. Ever. I do, however, see social normalization of diversity in art at some point in the future.

New one isn't. And the new one is engaging in all the ways that the other one wasn't.

Really invested in that invisible scoreboard, huh? Also, based on your output in this thread, getting into fights over others' lack of a perspective that you can't be bothered to share. ALSO also the notion of "blame."

Agreed.

You didn't offend me. I've just seen this sort of drain-circling, pointless discussion multiple times. It's asinine, IMO, and so I tried to redirect him to someone more interested in educating him rather than getting in a basic, entry-level slap fight. Could be that he doesn't want to learn a different perspective, or…

I didn't say that one would forget that racism is a thing. At all. I said that the idea of diversity in comic is (as you more or less say) to indicate that heroism isn't the sole or majority province of white, hetero-normative characters.

Nah, typo. It's Iron Ma'am.

I can block idiots all day. Keep it coming.

Regardless of his race, I have little faith that a black Bendis character will speak any differently than Spider-Woman, Kitty Pryde, Hawkeye, etc.

Well, yeah. But limiting it to that gets us into "checkbox" territory.

Question: wouldn't the end goal of diversity in comics be for the overall audience to judge a book solely on its merits, and not on the skin tone/ethnicity/sexual orientation of the characters therein?

My take: write what pops into your head to write. People will dig it or they won't. This whole "walking on eggshells" approach to art nowadays is a bit overblown, IMO.

Nah, being a reactive does.

Hulk is currently Amadeus Cho, a Korean-American. Fun little story thus far.

There are many PoC who will give you their perspective without trying to score points (gotta fill up that invisible scoreboard - very important). Seek one out if you're of a mind.

Well, to be fair, we don't know whether Mosiac will be good or bad. Unknown entity.

Well, c'mon now, a "great response" isn't usually conducive to an online scrum. I hear those are important.