Seemingly overnight, Marvel changed from a comic book icon with few major female characters to one of the more diverse major sequential art producers.
The Marvel creator and editor summarized the speech to the president, saying: “Diversity is not a trend: It is simply life.”
Marvel can either hope its once-dwindling core readers can sustain its coffers, or they can reach out to new readers and keep their comic book wing alive and thriving.
Of course, the comic-book ‘purist’ argument is: Why swap out old comic book heroes for new, diverse ones?