salarta

peppermonster:

Fixed the typo from my tweet.

#INeedFeminismBecause I can’t discuss comics books critically without my gender becoming a point of contempt and used to attack my opinion.

#feminism #fakegeekgirl #fakenerdgirl #fakegeekgirls #womenincomics #womenofmarvel #comicbooks

kurt-banged-her:

salarta:

dailydamnation:

Bendis Announces “X-Men” Departure with “Uncanny” #600 (via CBR)

I will tell you that “Uncanny X-Men” #33 will be a fan favorite, because this is as close as I’ve ever come to writing something because people told me to. We had a pseudo movie poster-style
illustration in “All-New X-Men” #25 of Kitty and Magik as monster
hunters. When it came in, I said, “We should do that! We should just do a
book of Kitty and Magik fighting monsters.” I said it half joking, but I
wasn’t really joking because as soon as you saw the illustration, you
want to see more of it. The consensus of the response that I got from
issue #25 was that Hank McCoy should burn in Hell, and we should do a
book about Kitty and Magik fighting dinosaurs and monsters.And we’re
doing it.
Let’s talk a little bit more about Magik, then. You say readers
sort of brought their own impressions as to what characters you were
interested in, but it does seem like you were especially were interested
in her character.
Yes — there were quite a few characters, not just Magik, that I
really have an affection and empathy for. She’s definitely one of them,
and she’s going to have a lot to do in the next two issues. There will
be a lot going on with her. I like her training with Doctor Strange in
the past and bringing it forward. A lot of people seemed to like that as
well, which was nice.
The X-Men tend to float off into their own little part of the Marvel
Universe. It’s almost like they’re their own universe or publishing
house. There’s the Marvel Universe, and the X-Men universe. I think that
can be a mistake sometimes, and I like to find ways to pull them back
towards the Marvel Universe. I think the Doctor Strange connection with
Magik is a connection, and Beast’s Illuminati membership is another one.
Wanting to bring them towards each other is something I really like to
do, and Magik seemed obvious in that.

Well, damn. Now I’m really nervous about Secret Wars, even without any anti X-Men conspiracy theories.

“Anti X-Men conspiracy theories” implies the accusations are baseless, and frankly there’s a hell of a lot of evidence to suggest the accusations are well-founded. Disney and Marvel quite simply let certain things continue to happen only because they know they can’t get away with killing the entire franchise wholesale right out the gate without it doing serious damage to the company. They’re taking the slow, methodical approach that permits them to get away with what they’re doing due to people thinking anyone observing such changes is overreacting.

^^^^^^^^
I was telling Salarta via email last year that I didn’t think Marvel would be so stupid to kill off one of their major franchises considering it’s such a huge money maker yet later in 2014 they half assedly retconned the Magneto family in half

After that these accusations are no longer baseless because IT’S ALREADY BEGUN

It’s easy for a person to think Marvel isn’t trying to diminish the X-Men franchise (and the Fantastic Four franchise as well) if they don’t see all the things Marvel’s doing in that vein. This will be an informal list, because it’s what I can remember right now and there are bound to be some that escape my memory.

San Diego Comic-Con 2014. There was NO panel for X-Men as its own franchise, only when paired with Avengers, yet Spider-Verse got its own panel. This may not seem like much until you consider Marvel was putting out MORE X-Men comics than Spider-Verse comics at the time; I believe something like 28 X-Men comics compared to 24 Spider-Verse comics. Since then, the number of X-Men comics was cut in half.

Poor treatment in crossovers. Every time there’s a crossover of the Avengers and X-men franchises, the X-Men franchise ends up worse off and the Avengers franchise ends up better. In Avengers vs X-Men, Professor Xavier died and the Avengers books got a couple mutants as well as big showing for Wanda. Axis goes down, and on top of the Avengers books using Genosha for their own plot point, they get to both retcon Wanda and Pietro out of being Magneto’s kids AND go out of the way to make Magneto look bad for killing Red Skull. Each time, the Avengers books get major story and character developments, while the X-books are left in shambles.

Peter David didn’t even know Wanda and Pietro were going to be retconned out of being Magneto’s kids. Marvel didn’t tell him. He’d spent a lot of time on All-New X-Factor building Lorna and Pietro’s sibling relationship, and had an AMAZING All-New X-Factor #14 of Lorna and Wanda spending the day together as sisters, only for the Avengers books to destroy any future plans he might’ve had.

Which leads into my next bit.

Lack of promotion for X-books. I get E-mails from Marvel Entertainment. When a Marvel film comes out, there’s tons of E-mails about special sales on, say, Captain America comics, and summaries of the character’s comic book history, and urgings to go see the new film. When Amazing Spider-Man 2 came out, they did a special sale and announced a special first issue of a new comic, as well as announcements to see the film.

When Days of Future Past came out, Marvel Entertainment sent out… nothing. Nothing at all. They didn’t even have to say “Go see the new film put out by Fox.” If they wanted to be smart about it, they could have done a few E-mails intended to get people to see Marvel’s versions of the franchise, to get fans to think Fox is doing it all wrong. Instead, Marvel went out of their way to do their level best to not promote the X-Men books while Days of Future Past was in theaters.

And I’m not just exaggerating with that. Pietro was on All-New X-Factor. Months before the DoFP film, he was featured on a cover of ANXF. Months after, he was also featured on a cover. But while DoFP was in theaters, they kept him off ANXF’s covers entirely. By contrast, Age of Ultron isn’t coming out for months and Marvel’s really putting Wanda and Pietro as Avengers on a pedestal in promo material.

Conclusion. Marvel encourages people to think that they’re not trying to diminish the X-Men books because it makes their job easier. It’s like the idea of the government spying on ordinary citizens. For a long time, all of that was taken as crazy conspiracy theories, largely because the people making the claims went to extremes. Marvel likely isn’t going to completely kill off the X-Men franchise, and if they do, it’s certainly not going to be overnight. They’re smart enough to know that’s better to simply diminish a franchise, and to do it slowly. That way when someone calls it out, everyone else will just shrug and assume it’s rampant paranoia based on fans of a franchise not liking that it’s in “natural decline.”

Which it’s not. It’s in a gradual forced decline, and the intent is a mix of greed and ego. Disney and Marvel want to force Fox into ideally giving/selling back the X-Men film rights, or at least negotiate better terms. The Avengers office, especially Brevoort, wants as much power over the Marvel universe as they can get. Disney and Marvel won’t get what they want, but Brevoort’s loving his ego trip.