{"id":1784084,"date":"2022-12-22T08:04:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T13:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784084"},"modified":"2022-12-22T10:33:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T15:33:44","slug":"john-stossel-woke-comic-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-stossel-woke-comic-books\/","title":{"rendered":"John Stossel: Woke Comic Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjohn-stossel-woke-comic-books%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1784084&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/30537bff-e760-45f3-a6f4-91a20e3c2dd5@news.ap_.org_.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Did you know that Superman&#8217;s son is bisexual? So is Batman&#8217;s sidekick, Robin, and lots of other superheroes created by Marvel and DC Comics.<\/p>\n<p>The author of the bisexual Superman story says gay people write to say they &#8220;burst into tears&#8221; when they saw that the characters had become gay.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s nice to make LGBTIQ+ people feel more welcome in the world, not everyone is happy.<\/p>\n<p>They became bisexual &#8220;out of nowhere!&#8221; complains comic creator Eric July in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9Zi1cLJyBoQ&#038;feature=youtu.be\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">new video<\/a>. &#8220;They make it seem as if the only way that you can relate to a character is because you&#8217;re gay and that character&#8217;s gay, which is nonsense!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>July, who is Black, says you don&#8217;t have to share the same traits as a superhero to enjoy the character. His favorite was Batman. &#8220;I ain&#8217;t got Bruce Wayne money, and I&#8217;m not rich! And I&#8217;m certainly not white.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>July points out that there have long been gay comic superheroes, like Northstar. But what&#8217;s new and dumb is that DC and Marvel are changing the identity of established characters.<\/p>\n<p>A new Batman is Black. There&#8217;s a new Spiderman-like character, except she&#8217;s a lesbian who uses a wheelchair. Iron Man is now a Black teenage girl. Really.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is progress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I was a kid,&#8221; I say to July, &#8220;all the characters were white. It&#8217;s a good thing more are non-white.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But they&#8217;ve been just reduced to being an item to pander to certain audiences that aren&#8217;t really buying into it,&#8221; July responds.<\/p>\n<p>No, they sure aren&#8217;t. Marvel and DC had the bestselling graphic novels. Now the best sellers are from Japan. Often, they aren&#8217;t even in color, yet they outsell Marvel and DC. The American-made books aren&#8217;t even in the top 20.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They turned off their audience by &#8230; hyper emphasizing the social justice element.&#8221; says July.<\/p>\n<p>Marvel made its evil character M.O.D.A.A.K. resemble Donald Trump. They hired leftist writer Ta-Nehisi Coates to create a Captain America series. Coates made the villain, Red Skull, a bizarre version of Jordan Peterson.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of just saving lives, today&#8217;s comic superheroes lead protests.<\/p>\n<p>The cover of a Superman comic shows Superman&#8217;s son leading a school &#8220;strike for climate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so stupid! Superman, with all his powers, could solve climate change all by himself. But now he holds a protest sign.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These guys are writing material for their peers,&#8221; says July. &#8220;So even if the Son of Superman falls completely off the charts like it did, right? It&#8217;s still a win in their mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I thought that capitalism would be a break on the silliest of the woke world. But in this case, they&#8217;re just sabotaging their own projects. The bisexual Superman series was cancelled after 18 issues.<\/p>\n<p>Marvel came up with two not-so-super heroes named &#8220;Snowflake&#8221; and &#8220;Safespace.&#8221; Really.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Snowflake is nonbinary and goes by they-them,&#8221; says the writer in Marvel&#8217;s video introducing the characters. Fan reaction to the preview video was pretty bad. Marvel decided not to release Snowflake and Safespace.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to ask Marvel and DC why they seem fine with losing market share. Aren&#8217;t their investors angry?<\/p>\n<p>Neither company would talk to me.<\/p>\n<p>At least their stupidity gives new opportunities to independent creators like Eric July. He&#8217;s raised $3.7 million to fund a new superhero comic book, &#8220;Isom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The market will decide if people want to pay for new characters like him.<\/p>\n<p>But July understands something that Marvel and DC apparently no longer do: Capitalism means giving people what they want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Superman&#8217;s son is bisexual? So is Batman&#8217;s sidekick, Robin, and lots of other superheroes created by Marvel and DC Comics. The author of the bisexual Superman story says gay people write to say they &#8220;burst into tears&#8221; when they saw that the characters had become gay. 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