I'd say support movie Marvel. Back when Ike Perlmutter, the head of Marvel Comics, a loud, very narrowminded Trump supporter/advisor, and from all reports, a complete asshole of a person, started pulling this shit, folks at Marvel Studios took notice and took action. They're two entirely different companies, and have been for a while. Perlmutter's mostly still got his authority at Comics thanks to some truly bizarre legal horseshit he pulled back in the 90s, when Marvel was declaring bankruptcy and making all sorts of weird deals to survive. He can't touch Marvel Studios, at all. Chris Evans has been loudly and publicly slapping Marvel Comics over this, as have a lot of other people involved in the movies.
But yes, this is a thing that's happening. It's been going on for a while now, and trust me, the fanbase has been screaming bloody murder. Perlmutter and his minions, Captain America writer Nick Spencer among them, know damn well what they're doing, and are trying to blame crashing comic sales on fans not embracing 'diversity'. No one is buying it. Hell, there is a full blown civil war going on in the marvel offices themselves, with at least half the writing, artist and editorial staff blatantly displaying their disgust at it in the comics that are being released. That's not stopping the assholes, but it's getting noticed. PR stunts are backfiring, like their recent attempt to have comic stores deck themselves in Hydra gear having comic store owners literally telling Marvel to fuck off. Marvel Comics is trying to claim that Hydra were never Nazis, and that's just a misunderstanding, which is drawing a lot of criticism, especially at conventions. Marvel Studios promptly had characters on Agents of SHIELD say 'Oh, all of Hydra are Nazis, they were founded by Nazis, they follow Nazi beliefs, they are utterly horrible people.'
But it's deliberate. Nick Spencer making Captain America a Nazi is deliberate. Claiming that the Nazis were actually winning World War 2 in 1945 until the allies used a Cosmic Cube to alter reality and turn Captain America into a hero is deliberate. The fact that the first issue of the event built around this horseshit was released on April 19, the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, is deliberate, and disgusting.
As a long time Marvel and Captain America fan, this is agonising. I try to support the comics being done by the people I know are speaking out against it, but it's getting harder to do so. Pretty soon, I'll walk away. I've done it before, with both Marvel and DC, over things I disagree with, and I'll do it again. But I hate seeing monsters destroy the things I love.
But yes, this is a thing that's happening. It's been going on for a while now, and trust me, the fanbase has been screaming bloody murder. Perlmutter and his minions, Captain America writer Nick Spencer among them, know damn well what they're doing, and are trying to blame crashing comic sales on fans not embracing 'diversity'. No one is buying it. Hell, there is a full blown civil war going on in the marvel offices themselves, with at least half the writing, artist and editorial staff blatantly displaying their disgust at it in the comics that are being released. That's not stopping the assholes, but it's getting noticed. PR stunts are backfiring, like their recent attempt to have comic stores deck themselves in Hydra gear having comic store owners literally telling Marvel to fuck off. Marvel Comics is trying to claim that Hydra were never Nazis, and that's just a misunderstanding, which is drawing a lot of criticism, especially at conventions. Marvel Studios promptly had characters on Agents of SHIELD say 'Oh, all of Hydra are Nazis, they were founded by Nazis, they follow Nazi beliefs, they are utterly horrible people.'
But it's deliberate. Nick Spencer making Captain America a Nazi is deliberate. Claiming that the Nazis were actually winning World War 2 in 1945 until the allies used a Cosmic Cube to alter reality and turn Captain America into a hero is deliberate. The fact that the first issue of the event built around this horseshit was released on April 19, the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, is deliberate, and disgusting.
As a long time Marvel and Captain America fan, this is agonising. I try to support the comics being done by the people I know are speaking out against it, but it's getting harder to do so. Pretty soon, I'll walk away. I've done it before, with both Marvel and DC, over things I disagree with, and I'll do it again. But I hate seeing monsters destroy the things I love.