When comic book writer Kelly Sue DeConnick got the opportunity to reimagine Captain Marvel as a blond, blue-eyed fighter pilot named Carol, she made changes to the character that some fans didn't like.
Wow, way not to fact check. You couldn't even get past the first word before you went wrong. Kelly Sue DeConnick DID NOT in any way shape or form reimagine Captain Marvel as a blond, blue-eyed fighter pilot named Carol. She's always possessed all those traits.
Those were elements that Roy Thomas reimagined in 1977, not Kelly. Kelly just came along & demonstrated a complete lack of writing chops, or knowledge of the character, as she sunk not one, but two complete volumes below marvels cancellation line: I noticed you failed to mention that, but I suppose that didn't really fit in to your "plucky female creator, can do whatever a man can do" narrative.
I'm sure a female writer of talent COULD do as good a job as Roy Thomas, but I wouldn't bet on that person being Kelly Sue DeConnick.
So there are three things that have happened in recent history that have created sort of this paradigm shift in our industry: One is, Image Comics has returned.
Image comics never left.
And Image is the third-largest publisher after Marvel and DC, and they write comics that are not part of a shared universe.
Same as it's been since essentially it's inception. This isn't a change, at all..... In any way shape or form.
So you don't have to learn a new system — you don't have to go to Wikipedia to start reading comics.
If you have to go to Wikipedia to start reading comics, that's a sign you shouldn't be writing comics for those companies. If you aren't a fan of those comics, what are you even doing attempting to write those comics?
The second thing that happened was the Marvel movies did exceptionally well at the box office, right? And 50 percent of that audience is women, and those women came out of those movies going, "Hmm ... I think I might like to find out more about Iron Man or Black Widow." And so they found a comic book store.
Actually no. Comic sales data is not boosted by related movie releases. You can check the sales data yourself, you'll note the lack of a sales boost when a movie is released.
And then the third thing is digital comics.
Which refuse to release their sales data, so is presumed to be very low. An in which we have no idea of the actual gender break down of the membership, let alone the active membership. As such the claim remains un-falsifiable one way or the other.