testsubjectb:zaataronpita:testsubjectb:zaataronpita:testsubjectb::daggerpen: You’re only worth stori
testsubjectb:zaataronpita:testsubjectb:zaataronpita:testsubjectb::daggerpen: You’re only worth stories if you’re a white man.Black Canary who has been an integral part of Green Arrow’s world as well as the Justice League’s for over 70 yearsConnor Hawke who had his own Green Arrow solo series for 10 years and a main part of the Arrow Family and was also in the Justice League.Mia Dearden who has been a main character and several character arcs in the Green Arrow Series as well as being a Member of the Teen Titans. also being one of the few characters in comics that really dealt with problems of HIV.Lian Harper who was a big part for the character development to Roy and Ollie.……yeah, they were never worth anything in the comics.See how far their stories took them in the reboot. There were so many characters in the DCU with rich runs and stories. But they weren’t white men. And they no longer exist in the new timeline.reboot doesn’t mean shit to me, they still had a long run in the comics and that still stands for something. Shall I list off the golden age characters that were heavily altered in the 1985 reboot or the ones that took many years to even debut?I might not mean shit to you but it means shit to the millions of female, queer, and POC readers of comics who saw their representation all but erased in the DCU.Sure means shit to me.Yes cause I flat out said YOU don’t mean shit to me ._.You don’t seem to get my previous post, Many characters were wiped from continuity in the 1985 reboot just like the new one, and took a few years for them to debut. Some characters were heavily altered, some series went in another direction, etc. Same thing as the New 52.I’ve been reading comics for 20 years, the reboot doesn’t bother me because I know there’s almost 30 years of stories and continuity of New Earth that I am STILL reading and have never read along with another 30 years of the previous continuity and all the Elseworlds books.Everyone acts that since the New 52 happened that they can no longer go back and read anything previously published, or worse the fans that refuse to read anything older than late 90’s because it’s “ugly art” or “too old looking” and expect me to spend an hour to just fill them in on what happend instead of experiencing the book for themselves.That’s not what representation means, although it sure tells a sad story when comics ten and twenty years ago have better representation than they do today. We’re not talking about how suddenly DC never had, say, a diverse collection of female characters. We’re saying that they don’t now. That simple. It sends a horrible message when it’s the female characters that are disproportionately not just altered but cut out of existence. When it’s the female editors who are too. When the male, and, yes, really the male white ones, have so much greater chance of being safe in the reboot than the female ones.It’s depressing. It gets us angry. Because DC is treating us like we don’t deserve representation and disrespects us when we speak up.It’s not about the stories in the past. It’s about the stories now. -- source link
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