LogFAQs > #953760129

deoxxys posted...

*woke-ify the show but the story is just too good to not experience.
*=genderswapping, raceswapping, feeling the need to have a character always callout something that is or might be sexist, changing a villains reason for destroying Mount Rushmore to "because they were racists, etc."

jfc >_<

Zikten posted...

Why? Why make 2 adaptations of the same comic?

Or at least so soon. And it's not like this was a major household name, although I'm guessing it was a bigger indie name.

helIy posted...

the comic sucks ass compared to the show

Helly opinion/10

And I doubt you've actually read the comic. I know the closest I got was binging the wikipedia entry back when the adaptation was first announced.

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First, it still gets new readers. Second, the expense and current storylines are probably a bigger factor. I enjoyed comics years ago, but most are fucking unreadable these days. They generally either heavily chase the SJW crowd (which has never read comics and never will read comics) or are being written by life-long comic fans who treat them as canonical fan-fics. Third, the explosion of anime and manga (as well as other media) has taken away a lot of people who might have otherwise read comics. It's no surprise that there's been a superhero-themed boom within that industry, with series like MHA, OPM, and others taking off. Personally, the only superhero series I've really actively followed in years has been a Chinese webtoon >_>

I guess the final reason would be the expense, although there are streaming equivalents nowadays.

And it's noting when you see comments like "So many comics that arent even that old have aged like milk culturally," they're almost always from the kind of guys who wouldn't read comics no matter what was done with them. And, as previously noted, a good chunk of why comics suck today and the readership is on the decline is because companies are trying to appease those guys instead of producing things that might interest readers. Granted, for the big companies, they're probably getting more money from using the comic characters in other media so they don't really care as much about the comics themselves. Otherwise they might have the balls to say "Fuck political correctness, the moral guardians, and SJWs" then produce something that might actually take off.

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