Current Events > Marvel: Black Lives Matter series canceled after 2 issues.

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gamepimp12
05/22/17 3:23:00 PM
#52:


MrPeppers posted...
Ammonitida posted...


Abysmal sales was due to snowflakes being offended by the subject matter and refusing to buy the books.


This was akin to placing Call of Duty ads on YouTube make-up tutorial videos. Marvel took a financial risk by riding this socially progressive wave and decided to scrap it after they couldn't turn a profit. If you want to blame someone, blame people who support this type of movement who didn't buy the comic books. Vote with your wallets, etc.



Ehh this kinda takes a lot of the blame for marvels obvious pandering that turned off a lot comic book nerds that would have other wise been excited

Marvel did social progress lazy then when everyone didn't hope on board they where like "people don't like social progress never again you guys"
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dave_is_slick
05/22/17 3:23:00 PM
#53:


Ammonitida posted...
MrPeppers posted...
TheVipaGTS posted...

It was canceled because of special snowflakes like this who got offended.


Uh, it was canceled because of abysmal sales. That's how capitalism works.


Abysmal sales was due to snowflakes being offended by the subject matter and refusing to buy the books.

I call bullshit of the highest caliber.
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PiOverlord
05/22/17 3:34:42 PM
#54:


sktgamer_13dude posted...
PiOverlord posted...
Lol, Libby Hippies are embarrassing. When will companies realize pandering to Libby Hippies will never work as they only live to be offended. They do not plan on actually buying a product unless the Government gives it out for free.

Someone seems upset.

Libby Hippies lose again. Why would I be upset?!?
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conpfreak
05/22/17 3:41:37 PM
#55:


I always find it weird when they put Black Panther in stories centered around the American experience, when he's also the antithesis to that in most of the comics. I don't mind the flashback reported to be in the movie where it's set in the Bay area during his schools years (This is absolutely true to life for many Africans), but BP isn't really a street level character.
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SSJGrimReaper
05/22/17 3:44:14 PM
#56:


What marvel comic isn't selling like complete shit these days
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Lightsasori
05/22/17 3:44:29 PM
#57:


It's cancelled because no one bought it, fair next.
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ChromaticAngel
05/22/17 3:46:50 PM
#58:


SSJGrimReaper posted...
What marvel comic isn't selling like complete shit these days


Star Wars has some pretty good sales but they struggle to make the top 10 every week / month.

Sales are being dominated by big dick DC.
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Trigg3rH4ppy
05/22/17 7:09:30 PM
#59:


ChromaticAngel posted...
SSJGrimReaper posted...
What marvel comic isn't selling like complete shit these days


Star Wars has some pretty good sales but they struggle to make the top 10 every week / month.

Sales are being dominated by big dick DC.

That's because The Button story arc is the hottest thing in comics right now. DC is basically eliminating all the reboots and basically starting with a clean slate

The "I saw......God" panel was like one of the coolest things to happen in a while.
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Darmik
05/22/17 7:12:49 PM
#60:


I have no idea what this was actually like but this topic made me remember the time Marvel had Doctor Doom crying on 9/11 rubble.
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Sexypwnstar
05/22/17 9:50:26 PM
#61:


ChromaticAngel posted...
Ammonitida posted...
MrPeppers posted...
TheVipaGTS posted...

It was canceled because of special snowflakes like this who got offended.


Uh, it was canceled because of abysmal sales. That's how capitalism works.


Abysmal sales was due to snowflakes being offended by the subject matter and refusing to buy the books.


the snowflakes are the only ones who bought the books.


@TheVipaGTS

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Crazyman93
05/22/17 9:53:25 PM
#62:


sktgamer_13dude posted...
Awwww seems like Marvel needs to make a safe space series for you guys.

Here we have the typical liberal understanding of economics. The Comic made no money, therefore, it will not continue.
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TheSextMachine
05/22/17 9:58:09 PM
#63:


Ammonitida posted...
MrPeppers posted...
TheVipaGTS posted...

It was canceled because of special snowflakes like this who got offended.


Uh, it was canceled because of abysmal sales. That's how capitalism works.


Abysmal sales was due to snowflakes being offended by the subject matter and refusing to buy the books.

Or it was just a shit concept from the beginning and only used the BLM to try to sell to idiot liberals.
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PG_Era
05/22/17 10:00:47 PM
#64:


When Did Lefties and Righties became a bunch of whiny snowflakes.
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Unquestionable
05/22/17 10:02:12 PM
#65:


Darmik posted...
I have no idea what this was actually like but this topic made me remember the time Marvel had Doctor Doom crying on 9/11 rubble.


I still mock this because in universe Doom would be applauding such an act. Marvel loves to pander to whatever they think will bring them easy money.
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Bloodychess
05/22/17 10:03:28 PM
#66:


Swing and a miss for Disney
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Milkman5
05/22/17 10:33:41 PM
#67:


The villains were AMERICOPs?

lmao
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FrisbeeDude
05/22/17 10:37:05 PM
#68:


Forlorn_Ass posted...
Good.


"Why don't people of color create their own superheroes and stories instead of making existing white characters white?"

We all knew y'all were full of shit
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Nomadic View
05/22/17 10:38:22 PM
#69:


Milkman5 posted...
The villains were AMERICOPs?

lmao


Yep, it's like Cenk Uygur wrote a Marvel fanfic.
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Medz1986
05/22/17 10:38:55 PM
#70:


Has nothing to do with race and everything to do with culture
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Mal_Fet
05/22/17 10:41:04 PM
#71:


Nomadic View posted...
Americops

criiiiinge
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TheGonzoSpider
05/22/17 10:44:27 PM
#72:


Americops? Really? I mean honestly this is just ridiculous. I'm against police brutality and am passive about BLM but what the fuck were they thinking.
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Nomadic View
05/22/17 10:45:53 PM
#73:


TheGonzoSpider posted...
Americops? Really? I mean honestly this is just ridiculous. I'm against police brutality and am passive about BLM but what the fuck were they thinking.


Probably something similar when Pepsi tried to capitalize on riot culture.
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FrisbeeDude
05/22/17 10:47:15 PM
#74:


Celebrating the death of a series because you're triggered by black activism...but keep telling us how you're not racist lmfao
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Davjat
05/22/17 10:49:13 PM
#75:


Do they really have to add storm to this shit show?
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SSJGrimReaper
05/22/17 10:51:10 PM
#76:


Davjat posted...
Do they really have to add storm to this shit show?

She isn't doing much else
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ManSpread
05/22/17 10:53:58 PM
#77:


marvel has been a joke since the early 2000s

no surprise yet another series flopped
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Davjat
05/22/17 10:54:17 PM
#78:


SSJGrimReaper posted...
Davjat posted...
Do they really have to add storm to this shit show?

She isn't doing much else



Avoiding shit tier comics is something.
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TheoryzC
05/22/17 10:55:42 PM
#79:


TheGonzoSpider posted...
Americops? Really? I mean honestly this is just ridiculous. I'm against police brutality and am passive about BLM but what the fuck were they thinking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americop

The character has been around since forever
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Terra-enforcer
05/22/17 10:58:44 PM
#80:


Forlorn_Ass posted...
Good.

This tbh

One of the reasons why I dropped recent Marvel and still like DC after Rebirth. One panders to a crowd that couldn't give a damn about comics and does shit for the politics, while the other is good and can have controversial stuff without blatantly pandering
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ClockworkHare
05/22/17 11:05:27 PM
#81:


6 issues still qualify as a mini-series. And those happen all the time.
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SpreadManning
05/22/17 11:08:01 PM
#82:


Good.
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Skye Reynolds
05/22/17 11:12:17 PM
#83:


The bad guys are sentinels similar to the Xmen's series, but they're called Americops.


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Skye Reynolds
05/22/17 11:12:51 PM
#84:


I guess I should be grateful they didn't spell cops with a k.
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Terra-enforcer
05/22/17 11:13:03 PM
#85:


Skye Reynolds posted...
The bad guys are sentinels similar to the Xmen's series, but they're called Americops.


s51ceyN

LMFAO I didn't even read that part!
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ChromaticAngel
05/22/17 11:52:39 PM
#86:


ManSpread posted...
marvel has been a joke since the early 2000s


Marvel was destroying DC in sales up until Rebirth.
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JerickoX
05/23/17 12:00:16 AM
#87:


Whoever wrote this garbage should have his hands removed. Oh and, they should send Brian Michael Bendis to the moon.
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DifferentialEquation
05/23/17 12:19:29 AM
#88:


It's certainly no shock that these comics flopped. If they had properly portrayed BLM as the bad guys it would have sold great.
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ChromaticAngel
05/23/17 12:21:15 AM
#89:


DifferentialEquation posted...
It's certainly no shock that these comics flopped. If they had properly portrayed BLM as the bad guys it would have sold great.

No it would have sold even worse.

Nobody wants to read sanctimonious political proselytizing in their comics in either direction.
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DifferentialEquation
05/23/17 12:24:20 AM
#90:


ChromaticAngel posted...
DifferentialEquation posted...
It's certainly no shock that these comics flopped. If they had properly portrayed BLM as the bad guys it would have sold great.

No it would have sold even worse.

Nobody wants to read sanctimonious political proselytizing in their comics in either direction.


You don't think a comic where BLM starts rioting and terrorizing the city and some superheroes come into save the day would sell well? It would sell great and you know it.
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cjsdowg
05/23/17 12:25:07 AM
#91:


Will white groups .. fine. Having a group for just black people. Oh know you damn SJWs should die in a fire.
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ChromaticAngel
05/23/17 12:25:25 AM
#92:


DifferentialEquation posted...
You don't think a comic where BLM starts rioting and terrorizing the city and some superheroes come into save the day would sell well? It would sell great and you know it.


The only thing it would sell would be marshmallows around Disney's headquarters.
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cjsdowg
05/23/17 12:26:15 AM
#93:


DifferentialEquation posted...


You don't think a comic where BLM starts rioting and terrorizing the city and some superheroes come into save the day would sell well? It would sell great and you know it.


Only to you alt-right people. Tell me did you post about one of your killing a black ROTC student .
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DifferentialEquation
05/23/17 12:27:24 AM
#94:


cjsdowg posted...
DifferentialEquation posted...


You don't think a comic where BLM starts rioting and terrorizing the city and some superheroes come into save the day would sell well? It would sell great and you know it.


Only to you alt-right people. Tell me did you post about one of your killing a black ROTC student .


I'm not alt right. And I don't know what you're talking about with that second sentence.
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The Admiral
05/23/17 12:28:13 AM
#95:


cjsdowg posted...
DifferentialEquation posted...


You don't think a comic where BLM starts rioting and terrorizing the city and some superheroes come into save the day would sell well? It would sell great and you know it.


Only to you alt-right people. Tell me did you post about one of your killing a black ROTC student .


Did you buy one of the 35,000 copies sold? I mean, you're their prime demographic. If even you aren't buying this stuff, you understand why they failed.
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BadDecisions
05/23/17 1:13:48 AM
#96:


DuranOfForcena posted...
the person who wrote such trash should be ashamed of themselves

Yes, I'm sure Ta-Nehisi Coates is very disappointed in himself.
The problem here is that Marvel is pushing too many books at once. It's a linewide problem, but it's especially clear with characters like Black Panther headlining three books of his own when he historically has barely moved one. They're expecting too many sales from the movie crowd when his movie hasn't even come out yet and dividing BP readership into nothing.
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Darmik
05/23/17 1:16:43 AM
#97:


Marvel still don't do X-Men comics right? lol
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GAMER_X_REVIVAL
05/23/17 1:27:07 AM
#98:


Gee its almost as if BLM is actually a paid movement of agent provocateurs paid by george soros, and not a legitimate one made up of actual citizens. Gosh so surprised this comic didn't sell at all how did that happen.....
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cjsdowg
05/23/17 1:36:47 AM
#99:


GAMER_X_REVIVAL posted...
Gee its almost as if BLM is actually a paid movement of agent provocateurs paid by george soros, and not a legitimate one made up of actual citizens. Gosh so surprised this comic didn't sell at all how did that happen.....


You know it wasn't a BLM comic, it was just a comic with black people in taken on issue such brutality ? Also you know people have been protesting police brutality for years before BLM right ?
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GAMER_X_REVIVAL
05/23/17 1:42:41 AM
#100:


cjsdowg posted...
GAMER_X_REVIVAL posted...
Gee its almost as if BLM is actually a paid movement of agent provocateurs paid by george soros, and not a legitimate one made up of actual citizens. Gosh so surprised this comic didn't sell at all how did that happen.....


You know it wasn't a BLM comic, it was just a comic with black people in taken on issue such brutality ? Also you know people have been protesting police brutality for years before BLM right ?


I'm just going off the title, i stopped bothering with comics after the death of superman and batmans back getting broken, ie the age when it became apparent comic companies made it apparent thet would do "shock arcs" to sell more comics (because fans would be like "oh man! this issue is gonna be worth alot in the future!!) then basically retcon the controversial story later and the hero would be alive again/fine.

Marvel/DC a ****. Every couple months some "things will never be the same!!!" arc, then few months later everything actually the same and back to normal. The mainstream comic book industry is a joke and has been for a long time now.
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shnangyboos
05/23/17 1:47:15 AM
#101:


Could they not have made a black comic without the "the evil police are killing black people" angle?
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