Every Single One of Marvel's GLAAD Award-Nominated Comics Has Been Cancelled

Marvel only cares about sales. That's fine. That makes sense.

The problem is they don't seem to care about critical acclaim for their lower selling books.

Even TV execs know that keeping a show on an extra season or two, despite ratings, because a show gets the network attention - like American Crime - is a good move.

They stunk, pure and simple....

Why are you not looking to DC? Look up The Midnighter, created by Garth Ennis. He's been around since 1998, got married to Apollo in 2002, adopted a kid same year. In fairness, it was Wildstorm where that started before the full merger with DC. DC gave Steve Orlando a Midnighter run (vol 2) and a 6 off Midnighter and Apollo that was great. Me personally, my favorite was the original The Authority run 1999-2002, 29 issues that culminated in the Midnighter/Apollo wedding.

OP, they sold terribly AND they were terrible.

let me count how many fucks i do not have about this

Marvel doesn't need the LGBT community since the mainstream is throwing cash at them whenever they release a movie trailer or announce some new reboot of an established comic series and it makes them more money than the LGBT community ever could. So they don't waste money and resources on LGBTs anymore when it doesn't make them filthy rich.

I am sure the trolls will find a way to blame Obama and the trannies for this. If they, the trolls, care about comics.

Midnighter WAS a good superhero book, because it was, almost entirely, a superhero book, not a gay pride tract. His sex/romantic life came into play when it was pertinent, including a relationship that became disasterous in the best superhero tradition. It wasn't gay, gay, gay in every page. These writers need to draw in a mainstream audience, not just preach to the choir.

America was car crash bad, and Iceman's comic was a litany of every gay stereotype you can name.

Apparently, no one at GLAAD actually reads comics.

[quote]They stunk, pure and simple....

[quote]America was car crash bad, and Iceman's comic was a litany of every gay stereotype you can name.

We must be soulmates.

America-- Thin character, writing was too subversive IMO

Iceman-- I could barely make it through an issue because my eyes were constantly in motion--and not in a good way. I mean….Fire Island references? I read comics to get away from that bullshit.

Black Panther--Wayyy too complex and involved. I was REALLY disappointed.

They were....not very good except for “Midnighter”--even though I found the writing a tad self-indulgent and his blonde-haired, blue-eyed lover annoyed the fuck out of me --but that’s a whole ‘nother thing

Maybe because comic book readers dont care about "queer" culture, they are more interested in good fiction and stories and not a class on SJW etiquette.

If mainstream businesses don't want the money of LGBT audiences then that's their decision. It gives smaller companies the chance to tap that market and be satisfied with the money they make within that niche market and have said market for themselves without big companies doing their pandering with their big PR budgets.

Are we, as a whole, still in this sad state of mind where we desperately need the validation of the mainstream to feel ok about ourselves when we are allowed to buy a company's product? There's enough "from gays for gays" to satisfy everybody already and there'll be more where that came from in the future.

During Pride month, Burger King sells "Pride Whoppers" in select markets.

I think the Whopper is a diarrhea-inducing mess. I can give a thumbs up to BK for their inclusive marketing campaign, but I'm not opening my wallet for a Pride Whopper because I don't want to consume one.

Marvel's wave of LGBTQ comics where poorly written (and often poorly drawn.)

It's despicable that the creators (who for the most part are not comic book writers, and should not be writing superhero books) will shift the blame onto a "homophobic" market. They want to spin this as a failure of LGBTQ content, instead of a failure of LGBTQ garbage.

Aside from the gays, Marvel made the unbelievably stupid decision to gender-swap three of their biggest characters. If moviegoers love Thor, Iron Man, and Wolverine, they'll be disappointed to find Thor replaced by the Natalie Portman character they universally hate, Iron Man replaced by a sassy young black chick, and Wolverine replaced by a brooding young woman who can't hold a candle to Logan.

I'm with R5.

To r5 and r15, I wonder how many "I don't give a fuck" it takes to post on a thread you don't give a fuck about? It must be more than zero fucks given since zero fucks would mean not to post a comment at all.

The “SJWs” ”arch-nemesis Diversity & Comics makes some valid criticisms (as well as many intellectually dishonest ones) about the “SJW era” comics terrible one-dimensional virtue signaling characterisation and general terrible writing; but more than that he’s actually witty, unlike his humourless opponents, devastatingly laser targeteiting their hypocrisy and increasing hysteria