DC is having a “you can’t handle the truth!” moment. In the face of conflicting survey results, they dismissed their online survey because it revealed a much larger percentage of female readers than the in-store and digital samplings. Why does DC think 93% male / 7% female is a more accurate picture than 77% male / 23% female? Continue reading
DC tells retailers their target audience are men age 18 to 34, all the while claiming to want new readers and to welcome “everyone” in. After everything DC’s done to alienate me this month, this may be the last straw. Continue reading
In a perfect world, we wouldn’t have to choose between Barbara Gordon as Batgirl and computer hacker extraordinaire Oracle, mentor to the next generation of Gotham’s female heroes. In a perfect world, DC would never have allowed such a misogynistic … Continue reading
Emma of Girls Read Comics Too speaks on a subject important to me: DC’s continued failure to fix its diversity problem. What’s the point of a relaunch if they don’t make major strides on this? Continue reading
June 5, 2010: DC Nation panel at Heroes Con 2010 A serious topic came up about how characters who are minorities who happened to be legacy characters like Ryan Choi are killed off so their caucasian counterparts can return and … Continue reading
This miniseries should have been called “The Big Giant Status Quo Reset”, or, “Everyone and everything you liked about New Krypton gets destroyed, but Luthor lives.” I’ve moved past my denial about them killing Alura and the (soon to be) … Continue reading
Fuck you Geoff Johns and all your racist pals at DC who spit out shit like this: Black Manta, White Power Rings, replacing heroes of colour with dead white guys, and vilifying Somali pirates as white child slavers/rapists* (* Which … Continue reading
*sob* Per DCU Blog and elsewhere on When Fangirls Attack (scroll waaaay down). What’s the point in buying it any more? Writer changes rarely go well for me, no matter how enthusiastic the outgoing writer is (they’re ALWAYS enthusiastic unless … Continue reading
When I talked with the Toronto Star yesterday about the upcoming article about Supergirl’s shorts (look for it this Saturday!), there were a few points that came up that I wasn’t as articulate about as I’d have liked. Here’s one … Continue reading
And a new calculator. I just received my big order of trade paperbacks from Chapters.ca, and I’m very happy. I’m especially happy that I didn’t have to pay the insane Canadian LIST PRICE for many of these books. These are … Continue reading
(5-page preview of Amazons Attack #1 at CBR) I’m really looking forward to Amazons Attack, for obvious reasons of seeing an army of women kick the patriarchy’s butt. (I’m not naive. I know it won’t really play out the way … Continue reading
Eddie Berganza, editor of Supergirl/JLA/Teen Titans/etc, is asking women to read Supergirl in this month’s DC Nation. I’m shocked. I really am. DC as a company cares very little for its female readers. They don’t acknowledge us as a viable … Continue reading