>>95809476Readers of Big 2 comics have always been willing to suffer through periods of bad writing, bad art, or both at the same time, to keep following characters they love. It's not sane, healthy or logical behaviour, but it's sort of like following a sports team through a losing streak.
Those same fans who are willing to put up with a lot, aren't willing to put up with the characters themselves being replaced, or changed so drastically that they aren't the same character anymore.
Most of the writers are bad, a lot of the artists are bad, the editors are bad, no-one seems to care about consistent characterization or continuity, the lefty politics inserted into the stories are getting crazier and more divisive, and all of this is happening at once and it's all worse than it's ever been at any time in Marvel's history.
And yet readers would have sat back and tolerated most of it if the heroes were still the characters they actually wanted to read about.
The diversity push is a massive part of the problem, that wouldn't even be a problem if these new characters were given all-new codenames and identities, and left to stand or fall on their own, but "taking something away" from straight White males is important for the agenda.
Marvel has been introducing replacement versions of characters for decades, but they've never replaced so many heroes at the same time before, and it's seldom ever lasted longer than a year or two before.
Insulting the old audience and trying even harder to drive them away, when the new audience you wanted never showed up? You're trying too hard to go out of business, Marvel.
