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Jan 13

Holy shit, fuck you DC. →

okayla:

nothingman:

mighty-motherbox:

misssynph:

Wow DC, not only do Black readers get the message that we’re mostly monsters from the way your creative portrays us in your works, but now we’re not good enough to actually write your books?

What the fuck?

Way to be diverse, assholes. I guess you really don’t want to give money to or get money from POCs. Dicks.

(This is just cementing my desire to ruin Dan Didio’s experience at Megacon next month. And I am going to head butt anyone who dares to tell me that this shit isn’t racist. Because it fucking is and I am fucking pissed off.)

Write a bad, non-selling comic like Mr. Terrific, get it cancelled. That’s how it works bruh. DC and Marvel don’t have money to toss around when shit don’t sell, sadly. You want a certain book to stick around for any reason at all? Buy it, get others to buy it. You’ve def got an internet connection, blow the series’ horn all over tumblr and message boards.

Mr Terrific while good just didn’t sell well enough even Dido’s own book OMAC (which was fucking fantastic) got canceled. Its just bad luck and poor sales

Yeah, I’m not really upset about this.

It’s more like they were not well known enough or popular enough to take on a big book that’s guaranteed safe, consequently the books they were on weren’t big sellers and most of them were mediocre-to-bad. They just wiped the lowest selling books to make way for new ones, since it seems like at least for a while they’re trying to keep it to 52 books which means a constant changing of the guard.

Also they’re not really firing anyone, because that’s not how it works? :\

I’m sad about Mr. Terrific but REALLY sad that Virgil’s book didn’t catch on. I had hugely high hopes for it, and I love Static so much. It would have been a lovely tribute to Dwayne had the book been a hit. Marc and Eric are talented, lovely guys. Hope they get new assignments right away. :(

I won’t get into my thoughts on Mr. Terrific as I didn’t read more than an issue but I do want to talk about Static Shock. That comic book was extremely disappointing to read. It just wasn’t written very well and that broke my heart. I grew up watching the Static Shock cartoon on kids WB when I was younger so when I heard he was finally getting a comic in the new 52 I flipped out. I was beyond excited. Then when I actually read it my heart sank. Not only did I not enjoy it but I knew around issue 2 or 3 that it would be one of the first to be canned.

I wanted better for Static so when I heard that a new writer was coming on I had hope. Then they cancelled the book this week before said writer had a chance to even turn things around. So not only did I lose a chance to see a character I love in his own comic book but we’re also losing a POC lead title and we all know how many of those we have these days!

The worst part is a bunch of people are going to see this as a case of no one wanting to read a comic book about an African American boy( not the case, check out Ultimate Spider-Man). Companies are going to look at this and go, “well I guess people of color led comic books just don’t sell” which isn’t the case at all. If you gave Batman, or any of the more popular characters, the same writer that Static had you can bet their book wouldn’t sell well either.

Worst of all, from my point of view at least, is in the list of new books DC announced this week there are no POC characters. We have some ladies in World’s Finest which is good but not great. Also, where is the diversity in the creative teams? I see some Men of Color which is good but still lacking in women. Don’t even get me started G.I. Combat, it already sounds a lot like Men of War which just got canned….

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