Thread:ADour/@comment-4300738-20150101205737/@comment-4651179-20150103021316

I don't really think so.

What is called "fads" is being aware of the world surrounding them. As an example, one of the stupidest things Young Avengers was called was "hipster" as a bad thing. The book features teenagers. Nowadays teenagers are certainly "hipster"-y. A book featuring nowadays teenagers will reflect them.

The comic book industry has been pandering for decades (since it began). Believe it or not, super heroines wearing nothing but leather thongs is pandering. Just because now they're catering to a wider variety of targets apart from males, those male readers are now whining because another people get attention. Some people appeared to be upset at one issue of Loki: Agent of Asgard opening up with a shower scene featuring Loki, as if there hasn't been million of shower scenes featuring females.

And where does that "quantity > quality" bs come from? As far as I know some of Marvel's current books have had incredible possitive critical reception. Thor, All-New Captain America, Ms. Marvel and all those other books which feature "pandering" or diversity have appeared in numerous lists of 2014's best books. Unlike DC, Marvel has had numerous Eisner Award nominations, with books like Daredevil (Eisner Award winner), Hawkeye (Eisner Warad nominee), and artists like David Aja or Jordie Bellaire have either won or been nominated.

If Marvel is prefering quantity over quality, then why have they delayed recent issues of their critically-acclaimed Hawkeye so much? Because they know the authors need time to produce the quality book they've produced, even if it takes four months between each issue. Other critically-acclaimed series have run their curse, and Marvel is not miliking them as they could. Superior Foes of Spider-Man ended.

Marvel might have had produced some books of subpar quality this year, but most of them have been great. It's safe to assume that Marvel has even improved over the past years.

Some people are even stupid enough to call books like Thor or All-New Captain America bad just becuase of the diversity they bring. Do you know how not a single issue of said books has gotten a score lower than 8/10 in Newsarama?

This happens because for some people change is bad. And why is this change happening, because Marvel has opened up to a more diverse and equal world. If you really think that's bad, you can get out of my face.