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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   I’m shocked… said exactly zero people.   
   So the libs are not buying what they demanded be made   
   who woulda guessed.   
      
   Marvel executive says emphasis on diversity may have alienated readers   
      
   Marvel’s vice president of sales has blamed declining comic-book sales on   
   the studio’s efforts to increase diversity and female characters, saying   
   that readers “were turning their noses up” at diversity and “didn’t   
   want female characters out    
   there”.   
      
   Over recent years, Marvel has made efforts to include more diverse and more   
   female characters, introducing new iterations of fan favourites including a   
   female Thor; Riri Williams, a black teenager who took over the Iron Man   
   storyline as Ironheart; Miles    
   Morales, a biracial Spider-Man and Kamala Khan, a Muslim teenage girl who is   
   the current Ms Marvel.   
      
   But speaking at the Marvel retailer summit about the studio’s falling comic   
   sales since October, David Gabriel told ICv2 that retailers had told him that   
   fans were sticking to old favourites. “What we heard was that people   
   didn’t want any more    
   diversity,” he said. “They didn’t want female characters out there.   
   That’s what we heard, whether we believe that or not.”   
      
      
   He added: “I don’t know that that’s really true, but that’s what we   
   saw in sales … Any character that was diverse, any character that was new,   
   our female characters, anything that was not a core Marvel character, people   
   were turning their nose    
   up.”   
   https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/03/marvel-executive-s   
   ys-emphasis-on-diversity-may-have-alienated-readers   
      
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