DC Comics Green Lantern relaunched as gay superhero

[erdawiro]

There are a couple of adults that read the stuff, but most of their readership are little kids.

I had to look that up and it turns out it's not true. Industry research has shown that the vast majority of readers are over 18.

[Supply Sider]

I had to look that up and it turns out it's not true. Industry research has shown that the vast majority of readers are over 18.

And live in their parents' basements.

[VTA]

I had to look that up and it turns out it's not true. Industry research has shown that the vast majority of readers are over 18.

And live in their parents' basements.

Is that not exactly why we find ourselves in the state we're in?
A generation refused to grow up and insisted on taking it's toys with it.

Unfortunately I know way too many people just like that. And they don't get it.

[Supply Sider]

I heard they contracted HIV, but lacked the star-power of a Magic Johnson and it progressed into full blown AIDS and they died. Together.

That's tragic. If only they'd had the star power of Magic Johnson. He keeps the AIDS away with his tenacious defense and shot-blocking prowess.

[JBond]

And live in their parents' basements.

essentially children...

[a_minimalist]

i've thought green lantern has been gay since the first issue i ever read of it.

lol!!

[erdawiro]

Is that not exactly why we find ourselves in the state we're in?

No, it's not.

[JBond]

Love to find some solid stats on those that buy cartoon books.

I did find this...

Comics publishers have some survey data, although nothing like A.C. Nielsen’s Bookscan yet exists. Most of it stays private, while the less embarrassing stats wind up in advertising media kits.
One of the problems with publishers interviewing their own customers is that we only get one blind man’s view of the elephant, as the cliché goes. The typical CBG reader, for example, is highly educated, has a job, has been in the hobby for many years, and owns tens of thousands of comic books. (At least, that was before we went monthly and mass-market. No data yet on you newbies — so don’t let us down!) But, certainly, our reader is more educated than most comics readers, more employed, has been in the hobby longer, and owns more comics than the average comics fan. We just don’t know how above average you are!

There have been other small, but noble, local efforts to fight the darkness. I met a retailer once who ran a massive survey, recording the demographics and buying habits of hundreds of her customers, using multivariate regression on the results to determine strength of correlation. We had our second child last November.

So, in the absence of data, we have a lot of hunches.

We say most comics buyers are guys, and we feel pretty safe in that. Or we did, until manga came along.

We say the average reader is in his late 20s or early 30s, and we feel significantly further out on a limb there. In fact, some of our wider surveys have suggested there are two “peaks” to the age graph — during adolescence and in the 20s — with a big dropoff in readership during high school, when we’re going on dates or getting beaten up. (In my case, both. My junior prom date had a problem with anger management.) And the height of those demographic peaks varies. When there’s a boom, like the one in the early 1990s, the younger set really plows into comics as a fad — and the average reader’s age drops like a pet rock. Then something else comes along, and it all changes again.

http://www.cbgxtra.com/columnists/jo...ds-comic-books

[VTA]

No, it's not.

Then why do we find ourselves in a divided state of thankless narcissists who are too good to work any job to earn a living?

[Cajuncowboy]

Is it an agenda or simply a reflection of reality?

An agenda since the vast, vast majority of American's are against gay marriage. Even in states where the liberals reign, it has been defeated, like California when it has been on the ballot. So, yes, it is an agenda.