When women create superhero comics, though—as with G. Willow Wilson on Ms. Marvel—they’ve had success attracting a female audience. So Marvel’s decision to make Thor a woman, and the company’s general effort to reach out to female readers, seem like canny business moves.
Well, except for the fact that the creative team making Thor a woman doesn’t contain one woman, of course.
(From here. This has been the year for “Hey, women go to Comic-Con too?!?” pieces, it seems. See also this terrible piece.)
This October, ahead of the highly anticipated new series All-New Captain America, get your first taste of Sam Wilson as the new Sentinel of Liberty in ALL-NEW CAPTAIN AMERICA: FEAR HIM, the groundbreaking new 6-issue Infinite Comic series specially designed for mobile devices! Bridging the gap between Sam taking up the shield in Captain America #25 to the debut of his new series in November, this genre-defining Infinite Comic chronicles Sam Wilson’s first high-flying adventure as Captain America! Fan-favorite scribe Dennis Hopeless (Avengers Arena, X-Men: Season One) and rising star artist Szymon Kudranski (Spawn) craft an all-new adventure that will define Sam Wilson’s new patriotic role and the man he will become!
From Marvel PR.
You know, I can’t help but feel that Marvel’s pulling some weird-ass racist dog whistle shit with that title, but maybe I’m hyper-sensitive and reading into it. (Hashtag I Am A White Straight Male With Issues, etc.)
We decided it wasn’t where we were going to put our development resources, given that no publisher of note wanted to do it. It’s just the right time.
SDCC: ComiXology CEO Explains New DRM-Free Backup Program – Comic Book Resources
2000AD has been DRM-free for years now, tho
(via guttersnipercomics)
Also, no publisher of note? Hasn’t Image been DRM-free for the last year or so?
Getting It Out of My System
I am generally pretty glad not to be at SDCC, but there are a few things I am really sad about missing, so here’s all the maudlin, wistful, wish-I-was-there-because stuff in one swell foop:
- Intersecting with lot of friends and colleagues who live far away.
- Podcast team-up with Glen Weldon.
- …
Kickstarter to get Glen Weldon to Portland for conversation and podcast team-up with Rachel.
(Related: I feel your pain, Rachel. I’m not missing the show, per se, but I am missing the chance to see a lot of the people down there.)
Steve: Would you say that’s a particular problem for Marvel? Or do you think there’s a charm in having Wikipedia open while you read your first ever X-Men comics, to help learn backstories and origins?
Rachel: I think it’s a problem fairly common to shared-universe characters who’ve been around for the better part of a century. If someone did a similar podcast with the DCU, I’d listen in a minute, because I am so completely intimidated by that timeline that I don’t even know where to start.
Firstly: go read this interview Steve Morris did with Rachel and Miles, who X-Plain the X-Men on a weekly basis (Also, if you don’t listen to that podcast, then go and listen to that podcast).
Secondly: I made a joke awhile back on Twitter about wanting to do an X-Plain the X-Men for the Justice League, and now that I’ve seen Rachel talk about someone doing a similar podcast for the DCU, I really want to do it. This is clearly a bad idea and Rachel is accidentally enabling me without even know it.