Beyond The Pale (Male): Marvel, Diversity And A Changing Comics Readership
It's a Wednesday at Fantom Comics in Washington, D.C., and the store is bustling.
Every Wednesday is New Comics Day — when subscribers come in to pick up the week's new titles, check in with each other, and talk comics. This Wednesday is no different.
Well. It's a little different.
I'm used to comics-shop chatter that revolves around things like which new books are worth checking out, what storylines have gone one way too long, and which hero could kick which other hero's butt.
Generally speaking, the word demographics doesn't crop up as much as it does today.
"We live in 2017," customer Erin Lisette tells me, "in a day and age where there are different demographics reading these comics, and most importantly, children! And it's like, . Maybe this was okay in the '30s, '40s,."
