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"This Is Peter Parker, Except Brown" – The Village Voice Talks Superhero Diversity Ahead Of NYCC
I wondered why we were suddenly getting a tonne of traffic from Village Voice. Turns out the New York paper has just run a feature on superhero comic book diversity ahead of New York Comic Con and linked to a piece by Bleeding Cool on Ms Marvel cosplay. The paper itself has Ms Marvel on the cover.
And there's a lot of talk with the people behind Ms Marvel regarding her success as a character – including the quoted quote by Joe Quesada in the headline, Writer G Willow Wilson also says
"We could have published this series ten years ago, word for word, panel for panel, and it would have been shuttered in a few issues." She credits her fan base for a passionate defense. "Everyone loves to dump on millennials. 'They're going to bring about the apocalypse,' or whatever. But in my anecdotal experience, it's the youngsters that have really embraced Kamala from the outset. I thought I was going to have to fight all these battles that readers fight on my behalf — Twitter beefs and backlash."
It's a good piece, that both introduces and explores the topic, the controversy and the attitudes behind such moves, especially at Marvel.
Although because this is Bleeding Cool and we have to mention….
there's a revamped Black Panther, written for once by a black man, the memoirist and social critic Ta-Nehisi Coates
The series had considerable runs from Christopher Priest and Reginald Hudlin, who both gave Marvel Studios plenty to work with ahead of the movie… okay, okay, that's a nitpick. But it was going to happen.