Sunday, December 18, 2011

Does Marvel hate women and female super-heroines?

So recently I've been thinking, why are all the female lead comic books been cancelled? It's not they are not selling well as a matter of fact they are outselling a lot of the other titles. But yet they're been cancelled, X-23 and Ghost Rider are just a few. Most of the female characters are been pushed back or have disappeared. But these are just comics...
And then I looked back at Marvel and the products they make. Have you heard of X-Men Evolution? It was a cartoon but they also made action figures and statues. Look at the list of characters they have made. Cyclops, Wolverine, Toad, Nightcrawler and who? Spyke? With the exception of Storm the most popular female characters were never made. Where is Rogue and Shadowcat? These are the staple characters of the X-Men team who have risen to popularity from the 1980's. This is just one example but thinking about the negligence Marvel has given to these characters I'm really starting to think that Marvel hates women.
In a comic book industry predominantly populated with men you would think that Marvel would learn something. Maybe they should take a look at DC and learn something from them, really. Batgirl, Catwoman, Harley Quinn are just a few of the most popular female characters in the comic book history. Marvel has who, that they have been pushing? nobody. Take a cue Marvel and straighten up, and while you're at it maybe its time Psylocke gets a costume change. We are no longer in the 1980s.